Team

Biography

Joe is a Co-Founder and Partner of Raine. Joe is active across all of Raine’s businesses and works closely with large global and regional entertainment, sports, and digital media conglomerates, as well as earlier-stage, high-growth media companies, as an advisor and investor. Based in Los Angeles, Joe also spends considerable time in New York, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Joe serves on the boards of Propagate Media, Imagine Entertainment, and Candle Media, all Raine portfolio companies.

Prior to Raine, Joe was a senior Partner at Goldman Sachs, where he spent approximately 16 years based in London, Hong Kong, and New York working on both principal and advisory transactions in the sports, media, and telecommunications industries, including significant deals such as the creation of the YES Network, the sale of MGM Studios, and the spinoff and creation of NBA China. While at Goldman, Joe was responsible for creating and building several important businesses, including the Asian TMT business, the sports practice, and the entertainment finance group. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Joe worked as an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York, London, and Moscow, where he helped found the firm’s Russia practice. Joe also clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval in the Southern District of New York.

Joe graduated from Amherst College, magna cum laude, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.