A globe-trotting disc jockey pays his bills as an investment banker.
David M. Solomon, co-president of Goldman Sachs, travels the world as an electronic music DJ when he’s not working on Wall Street. Over the last few years, he’s performed for live audiences on a regular basis.
Solomon has spotted spinning records at a sunny beach club in the Bahamas on the Fourth of July weekend, according to the New York Times. The investment banker posted a video on Instagram to account associated with his musical alter ego, D.J. D-Sol. The page has since been made private.
Solomon performs about once a month in various places like New York, Miami, and the Bahamas. D.J. D-Sol’s Miami appearance in March was part of an event that included Paul Oakenfold, a Grammy-winning DJ that pioneered trance music in its early days.
It’s an unlikely hobby for anyone in the world of finance, let alone somebody so high up at one of the world’s most powerful investment banks. While the side gig may earn some jokes from his fellow senior-level executives, it emphasizes the message of work-life balance to younger workers at Goldman.
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