Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Goldman Selects 78 New Partners

The class is slightly bigger than last year, but still smaller than 2010.



Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein


Rebecca Cook / Reuters


Lloyd Blankfein and Gary Cohn, the chief exectutive officer and president respectively of Goldman sachs, made 78 calls this morning, starting around 5am to tell lucky Goldman employees that they will be partners starting in the beginning of next year.


The partner title gives Goldmanites higher base salary, access to a special bonus pool and fund investments, more information about the firm, attendance at partners-only events, and a uniquely elite credential on Wall Street.


This year's class selection is a culmination of a process started this summer by Edith Cooper, who runs human resources at Goldman, the co-CEO of Goldman's international business Michael Sherwood, and Cohn, who chair the firm's partnership committee. The candidates are never formally notified that they're under consideration.


This year's class is slightly larger than the 2012 class, which brought in 70 new partners, but smaller than 2010's 110 person class or 2008's 94 person class.


"These appointments recognize some of Goldman Sachs' most valued senior professionals, their embodiment of our culture and values, and their leadership of the firm's business and people," Blankfein and Cohen wrote in an e-mail to the firm.


One of the notable names on the list include the firm's head of communications, Jake Siewert. He did not make the cut in the last round. His predecessor, Lucas Van Praag, was made a partner after five years at the firm. Siewert joined Goldman in 2012.


Darren Cohen, who heads Goldman's principal strategic investing group, was named a partner. Cohen led a consortium of more than a dozen financial institutions in the acquisition of the messaging startup Perzo, with the aim of developing a new chat service for the financial industry to challenge Bloomberg. Jonathan Fine, who helped lead Apple's massive $17 billion bond issue, was also named a partner.


Only 10 of the new partners are female, compared to 11 in 2012.


Starting in 2015, there will be 467 partners, 1.6% of the firm's total employees, which is right in the narrow range that Goldman likes to keep the size of its partner group.


The division that had the most new partners was securities, which does sales and trading, with 25 new partners, while investment banking had 23. In 2010, the balance was more lopsided towards securities, which had 27 partners while investment banking had 21. What Goldman calls "the Federation" — units that don't directly generate revenue, like technology and operations — had 12 partners, compared to 8 in 2012.


Fadi Abuali


Aaron Arth


Jennifer Barbetta


Thomas Barrett


Gerard Beatty


Shane Bolton


Will Bousquette


Kane Brenan


Tavis Cannell


T.J. Carella


Gary Chropuvka


Darren Cohen


Stephanie Cohen


Kathleen Connolly


Sara Devereux


Iain Drayton


Carlos Fernandez-Aller


Jonathan Fine


Meena Lakdawala Flynn


David Friedland


Jan Fritze


Dino Fusco


Huntley Garriott


Jeff Gido


Littleton Glover


Cyril Goddeeris


Alexander Golten


Jason Gottlieb


Joanne Hannaford


Julie Harris


Edouard Hervey


Matthias Hieber


Charles Himmelberg


Sean Hoover


Pierre Hudry


Irfan Hussain


Kevin Kelly


Tammy Kiely


Maxim Klimov


Edward Knight


Etsuko Kobayashi


Nyron Latif


Greg Lee


Dirk Lievens


Kyri Loupis


John Madsen


Richard Manley


Michael Marsh


Ali Meli


David Miller


Joseph Montesano


Eric Muller


Manikandan Natarajan


Fergal O'Driscoll


Kristin Olson


Jernej Omahen


Nicholas Phillips


Rob Pulford


Colin Ryan


Carsten Schwarting


Kunal Shah


Richard L. "Jake" Siewert


Jason Silvers


Kevin Sterling


Umesh Subramanian


Dan Swift


Ben Thorpe


Oliver Thym


Joe Todd


Hiroyuki Tomokiyo


Thomas Tormey


Mark Van Wyk


Rajesh Venkataramani


Matthew Verrochi


Owen West


Ronnie Wexler


Xiaoyin Zhang


Adam Zotkow




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