Nov 9, 2022
Goldman Names About 80 New Partners in Biggest Class Under Solomon
Bloomberg News
,(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s top tier will see the biggest infusion of partners during David Solomon’s run atop the finance giant.
The firm tapped 80 employees in its biennial ritual to join what has long been considered one of Wall Street’s most prestigious clubs, with less than 1% of the firm making up the top rank. This year’s class is 33% bigger than the one from 2020.
It’s the most diverse group of executives elevated to Goldman’s top rank, with the most women and greatest number of Black employees ever promoted to partner, the New York-based firm said. The class includes 23 women and seven Black executives. Two-thirds of the new partners are based in the Americas, and more than quarter are from Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The size of the class this year runs counter to the push to tamp down the scope of the promotions in the last two cycles in an effort to make it much more aspirational and exclusive. In the 2020 cycle, only 60 new entrants made it into the partnership -- the smallest group since before the firm went public -- and 69 in 2018, which marked Solomon’s first year overseeing the process.
One challenge with smaller classes has been the inability to overcome the struggles the bank has had in achieving gender balance, with the partnership still overwhelmingly dominated by men.
The partnership rank comes with special privileges, including pay that routinely climbs into several million dollars, the opportunity to invest in private funds without fees and a cut of profits from Goldman’s investment funds that are open to employees. Last year, after bumper profits, Goldman lavished special one-time payouts for only its partners.
The employees becoming partner on Jan. 1 are:
Osman Ali, New York
Amal Alibair, Washington
Jean Altier Bohm, New York
Frederick Baba, New York
Sivasubramanian Balaji, Bengaluru
Melissa Barrett, New York
Pierre Benichou, New York
Kerry Blum, New York
Michael Broadbery, New York
Robert Charnley, London
Rob Chisholm, San Francisco
Stephen Considine, London
Alicia Crighton, New York
Aneesh Daga, London
Ranga Dattatreya, New York
Alexis Deladerrière, New York
Jack Devaney, New York
Kene Ejikeme, London
John Fathers, New York
Zac Fletcher, Sydney
John Flood, New York
Kelly Galanis, New York
Gizelle George-Joseph, New York
Scot Goodman, New York
Betsy Gorton, New York
Ken Grahame, New York
Dinesh Gupta, Jersey City, New Jersey
Kay Haigh, London
Aiden Hallett, New York
Milan Hasecic, London
Stephanie Ivy Sanford, Los Angeles
Lear Janiv, London
Jessica Janowitz, New York
Moritz Jobke, London
Vanya Kasanof, New York
Sarah Kiernan, New York
Tony Kim, London
Chloe Kipling, London
Jennifer Kopylov, New York
Adam Lane, New York
Lia Larson, London
Risa Lederhandler, London
Naomi Leslie, New York
Justin Lomheim, London
Gina Lytle, San Francisco
Christiane Macedo, New York
John Manzi, New York
Shahmil Merchant, London
Pooja Mishra Prahlad, New York
Babak Molavi, London
Robert Mullane, London
Harsh Nanda, New York
Joseph Persky, New York
Raya Prabhu, New York
Richard Privorotsky, London
Ali Raissi-Dehkordy, London
Zeeshan Razzaqui, New York
Elizabeth Reed, New York
Christian Resch, London
Vanessa Resnick, New York
Fernando Rivera, New York
Faisal Shamsee, Singapore
Stephen Stites, New York
Rob Taylor, Hong Kong
Luc Teboul, New York
Troy Thornton, New York
Jason Tofsky, New York
Ben Wallace, New York
Brandon Watkins, San Francisco
Whitney Watson, New York
Greg Watts, Alpharetta, Georgia
Greg Wilson, New York
Ed Wittig, New York
William Wolcott, West Palm Beach, Florida
Isaac Wong, Hong Kong
Stuart Wrigley, Singapore
Rupam Yadav, New York
Jon Yarrow, London
Basak Yavuz, New York
Ryad Yousuf, London
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