Blackstone director Joseph Baratta to resign Dec 31, 2026; board shrinks to seven

Blackstone Inc.

Joseph Baratta notified Blackstone's board on October 9, 2026 of his intent to resign as a director effective December 31, 2026.
Departure is tied to Baratta's planned retirement from Blackstone Inc.; he continues to serve as a director until the effective date.
Board size will be reduced from eight members to seven members as of the December 31, 2026 effective date.
No replacement director or successor committee role was named in the filing.
8-K signed October 15, 2026 by Victoria Portnoy, Managing Director – Assistant Secretary.

item 5.02

Executive movements

Machine-extracted from this filing. Every card cites the SEC source. See all recent executive movements.

Departed

Joseph Baratta

Director

BX · Blackstone Inc.

Effective: 2026-12-31
Filed: October 15, 2026, 4:12 PM ET

On October 9, 2026, in connection with his planned retirement from Blackstone Inc. (the “Company”), Joseph Baratta notified the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) of his intention to resign from his position as a director of the Board effective December 31, 2026 (the “Effective Date”).

Key facts

Extracted from this filing and checked against the source text.

Executive change SEC 8-K Item 5.02 confidence 0.95

Joseph Baratta departed as Director at Blackstone Inc..

Action: resign
Role: Director

Exact text from the filing

On October 9, 2026, in connection with his planned retirement from Blackstone Inc. (the “Company”), Joseph Baratta notified the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) of his intention to resign from his position as a director of the Board effective December 31, 2026 (the “Effective Date”).

View on SEC.gov

Blackstone Inc. filing history →

Source: SEC EDGAR

accession 0001193125-26-422888

view filing index on sec.gov

view primary document

Machine-readable: JSON · Markdown · Plain text

This headline and bullets were generated automatically by deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2 from the public filing. Read the source on SEC.gov before relying on any specific claim. Not investment advice. See methodology for how this pipeline works.