Joan Binstock
Joan Binstock
Chairman of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee, Member of Audit and Compensation Committees
 
Biography

Joan Binstock has served as a member of our Board of Directors and Chair of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee since October 2019. Ms. Binstock also serves as a member of the board of directors and the Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of each of the other MS BDCs. Ms. Binstock serves as an Advisor at Lovell Minnick Partners, LLC since July 2018, where she is responsible for assisting the firm on deal and operational due diligence activities across all portfolio companies. In addition, she has been a director of the Brown Brothers Harriman US Mutual Funds since September 2019, a member of the board of directors and the Audit Chair of KKR Real Estate Select Trust, Inc., a closed-end management investment company, since August 2020, a member of the board of directors of Confluence Technologies, Inc. since April 2023 and a member of the board of directors and Audit Chair of The 2023 ETF Series Trusts since 2023. Ms. Binstock served as a Director of SimCorp A/S from April 2018 to March 2023. Ms. Binstock was a Partner at Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC from 2000 to March 2018, where she served as the Chief Operating and Financial Officer. Previously, Ms. Binstock was the Chief Operating Officer at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management. Prior to that, she was a Principal and National Director of the Regulatory and Risk Management Practice at Ernst & Young LLP, the Chief Administrative Officer at BEA/ Credit Suisse, and the Chief Administrative Officer of the Capital Markets Group at Goldman Sachs. She served as a Member of the Association of Institutional Investors Board of Directors, was a Director of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and was a Member of the Global Board of Managers of Omgeo LLC until January 2018. Ms. Binstock is on the board of the Duke School of Medicine Board of Visitors and on the Advisory Council of NY/NJ Year Up and previously served on the board of the Greystone Foundation, each of which is a nonprofit organization. Ms. Binstock is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. She holds a M.B.A. from New York University and a B.A. from the University of Binghamton. Ms. Binstock’s investing experience and experience as a senior executive officer in several finance companies led our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee to conclude that Ms. Binstock is qualified to serve as a Director.