Goldman Sachs’ new managing director list is out — and it’s the largest class in the firm’s history (GS)

• Goldman Sachs announced its largest-ever class of managing directors.
• Of the 509 promoted to MD, 44% were millennials.
• The firms announces MD promotions once every two years.
• It’s one of the most coveted positions on Wall Street, a step below partner at the premier investment bank.

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Goldman Sachs just announced a new class of 509 managing directors — the largest class in the firm’s history.

The position is one of the most coveted on Wall Street, one step below partner at the prestigious investment banking firm. The firm now has 2,148 MDs, or 7.1% of the company’s workforce.

It’s also one of the youngest classes the bank has promoted to MD, comprised 44% of millennials. That’s up from 30% in 2015.

Other headline stats about the class:

• 66% started their careers as analysts or associates at Goldman Sachs.
• 24% of the class were women, down from 25% in 2015.
• 130 were promoted in the securities division, up from 102 in 2015.
• 101 were promoted in investment banking, up from 97 in 2015.
• 52 were promoted in technology, up from 38 in 2015.
• 8 were promoted in consumer and commerical banking — the division that houses the bank’s online lending business Marcus — compared with zero in 2015.

Here’s the full statement:

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NEW YORK, November 8, 2017 — The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has selected a new class of Managing Directors, effective from January 1, 2018, the start of the firm’s next fiscal year.

“Our new Managing Directors have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to our people, clients and culture during their tenures at the firm, and we wish them continued success as they take this important next step in their careers,” said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.

The following individuals have been promoted to Managing Director:

Gregg Abramson

Sanjay Acharya

Khalid Albdah

Amal Alibair

Karthikeyan Anbalagan

Rolf Andersson

Volker Anger

Jonathan Armstrong

Ken Ashley

Lavanya Ashok

Sebastian Ayton

Jonathan Babkow

Julio Badi

Amitayush Bahri

Soren Balzer

Robert Barlick Jr.

Philip Barreca

Santiago Bau

David Bauer

Oksana Beard

Lee Becker

Virender Bedi

Stuart Beer

Christian Beerli

Amanda Beisel

Yumiko Bekku

David Bell

Pierre Benichou

Andrew Benito

Marco Bensi

Laura Benson

Stephen Bergin

Daniel Berglund

Greg Berry

Shital Bhatt

Dipanjan Bhattacharjee

Anu Bhavnani

Carissa Biggie

Vineet Birman

Daniel Bitel

Anne Black

Richard Blore

Emmanuel Bodenstein

Timothy Braude

Sean Brenan

Hugh Briscoe

Nathaniel Bristol

Leo Brito

Troy Broderick

Levee Brooks

Eric Brothers

Robert Bruns III

Anthony Bunnell

Meg Burke

Susan Burt

Sean Butkus

Russell Byrne

Edward Byun

Adam Cahill

Alessandro Calace

Cristiano Camargo

Ken Cawley

Swapan Chaddha

Patrick Chamberlain

Richard Chambers

Daphne Chan

Lily Chan

Ben Chance

Ginger Chang

Vikram Chavali

Alex Cheek

Jae Joon Choi

Ken Choi

Paul Choi

David Clark

Denis Cleary

Daniel Cleland-James

Ayanna Clunis

Pamela Codo-Lotti

Jesse Cohen

Paul Coles

Simon Coombes

Jenny Cosco

Philip Coureau

Nathan Cowen

Matthew Cox (Securities)

Shaun Cullinan

Christine D’Agostino

Emile Daher

Hiren Dasani

Russell Day

Pierre De Belen

Merche del Valle

Caitlin DeSantis

Jack Devaney

Thomas Devos

Mats Dewitte

Hristo Dimitrov

Tim Dinsdale

Isabella Disler

Christian Ditullio

Terence Doherty

Yakut Donat

Nicola Dondi

Brian Dong

Jason D’Silva

Stefan Duffner

Jane Dunlevie

Marie Duval

Julien Dyon

Rohini Eapen

Zach Eckler

Sayaka Eda

Jason Eisenstadt

Chris Emmerson

Tiffany Eng

Chendan Esvaran

Erkko Etula

Liz Ewing

Michael Fargher

Matteo Farina

Leigh Farris

Sarah Faulkner

Tom Favia

Brett Feldman

Jennifer Feng

Jon Ferguson

Alex Field

Herbert Filho

Alex Finston

Dean Flanagan

Greg Flynn

Trip Foley

Andrew Ho Kwon Fong

Moran Forman

Michael Fox

Caroline Fraser

Daniel Freckleton

Tim Freeman

Reto Frei

Giles French

Kirsten Frivold

Michael Fu

Rob Fuentes

Kenji Fujimoto

Carrie Gannon

Chantal Garcia

Akhil Garg

Alex Garner

Nick Gelber

Andrew Gent

Gizelle George-Joseph

Andrea Gift

Sean Gilbride

Andreas Glaser

Yong Suan Goh

Sona Gohel

Amir Gold

Jeremy Goldstein

Steven Gonzalez

Jeff Gowen

Adam Greene

Tom Groothaert

Hannes Gsell

Ashwin Gupta

Ali Haji

Ayaz Haji

Robert Hamilton Kelly

Victoria Hampson

Raja Harb

Andy Harding

Ryan Harster

Selma Hassan

Stephen Hawinkels

Jacqueline Haynes

Jason He*

Craig Hempstead

David Herrmann

David Hickey

Thomas Hilger

Mitch Hochberg

Jodi Hochberger

Jane Hodges

Peter Hodgkinson

Dylan Hogarty

Tim Holliday

Naftali Holtz

Amy Hong

Jason Hudes

Earl Hunt

Joseph Hwang

Yoshinori Ide

Kazuya Iketani

Daniel Jackson

Ankit Jain (Risk)

Gaurav Jaitly

Jan Janssen

David Jeria

Alnawaz Jiwa

Kim Johns

Scott Johnson

Elis Jones

Neil Jones

Robert Jones

Philip Joseph

Anand Joshi

Shawn Joshi

Ritu Kalra

Michael Kaprelian

Nadeem Kayani

Alicia Keenan

Neil Kelleher

Tom Kennedy

Aqil Khan

Sarah Kiernan

Daniel Kim

Eugene Kim (IMD)

Jason Kim (GIR)

Sora Kim

Kristy Kinahan

Eugene King

Laura Kirk

Kunal Kishore

Elliot Klapper

Jayee Koffey

Jason Koon

Jennifer Kopylov

Daniel Korich

Ichiro Kosuge

Vladimir Kotlyar

Samuel Krasnik

Katherine Krause

David Kraut

Sergey Kraytman

Nitin Kulkarni

Ram Kulkarni

Dileep Kumar (Securities)

Santosh Kunnakkat

Wendy Kwong

JP Lall

Bill Lambert

David Landman

Yi Larson

Niccolo Laudiero

Nick Laux

David Lee

Phillip Lee

Samuel Lee

Shawn Lee

Michael Leister

David Lerner

Naomi Leslie

Matt Levine

Na Li

Haining Liang

Nancy Licul

Monica Lim

Michelle Ling

Srujan Linga

Philip Linton

Alan Liu

Daniel Liu

Eric Liu

Heiman Lo

Juan Lorenzo

Tian Lu

Wayne Lu

James Lucas

Dennis Luebcke

Martin Luehrmann

John Lynch

Gina Lytle

Leo Ma*

Caesar Maasry

Geoff MacDonald

Robert Magnuson

Toshiyuki Makabe

Mariano Mallol

Geydar Mamedov

Kara Mangone

Donna Mansfield

Ajit Marathe

Gilberto Marcheggiano

James Marchese

Michael Marcus

Joshua Matheus

Ann Mathews

Chris Mathie

Brian McCallion

Graham McClelland

Anne McCosker

Michael Meehan (Compliance)

Taylor Mefford

Neil Mehta

Adam Meister

David Mericle

Vitali Meschoulam

Eric Meyers

Alex Mignotte

Andras Mikite

Christopher Milligan

Rahul Mistry

Mike Mitchell

Neil Moge

Waleed Mohsin

Babak Molavi

Joel Monson

Guy Morgan

James Morris

Antoine Munfa

Aimee Mungovan

Yuji Murata

Dan Murphy

Josh Murray

Brian Musto

Shehzad Nabi

Devarajan Nambakam

Ramanathan Narayanan

Ganapathy Natarajan

Danielle Natoli

Murad Nayal

Karim Nensi

Scott Neu

Dennis Ng

Ken Ng

Benjamin Ngan

Joy Nguyen

Salman Niaz

Anders Nielsen (IMD)

Howard Nifoussi

Jun Niki

Leah Nivison

Laura Noble

James Nolan

Lauren Oakes

Lynn Oberschmidt

Allison O’Connor

John O’Connor

Shunil Ohrie

Damian Ordish

Leke Osinubi

David Ossack

Sathiya Padmanaban

Danielle Pallin

Salvador Pareja

Dalmir Pasini

Clorinda Pasqua

Chris Pawson

Paris Pender

Patrick Perkins

Philippe Perzi

Wendy Peters

Andy Phillips

Flavio Picciotto

Michael Pieck

Sam Pirog

Thomas Plank

Joseph Plotkin

Wade Podlich

Ashish Pokharna

Caitlin Pollak

Charles Pollock

Joe Porter

Travis Potter

Rohit Prabhu

Richard Privorotsky

Andrew Pucher

Jay Rabinowitz

Ankit Raj

Harsha Rajamani

Dmitry Rakhlin

Yasser Rathore

Edoardo Rava

Elizabeth Reed

Alexandre Reinert

Stephen Reinhard

Irfan Rendeci

Christian Resch

Andrew Rhee

Riccardo Riboldi

James Rinsler

Caroline Riskey

Helen Robinson

Mark Rosen

Amit Roy

Joe Ryan

Bernhard Rzymelka

Takehiro Sakuramoto

John Sales

Rob Sarazen

Vineeta Saxena

Dominik Schaefer

Andrea Scott

Majid Sebti

Bipin Sehgal

Arseni Seregin

Irma Sgarz

Paulomi Shah

Shreyas Shah

Sunny Shah

Faisal Shamsee

Daniel Shapiro

Mahesh Sharma

Shripal Sharma

Mai Shin

Romy Shioda

Toshimichi Shirai

Mark Short

Pankauz Shrestha

David Shrimpton

Obaid Siddiqui

Mike Sidorov

Scott Silverglate

Stefani Silverstein

Amy Silverzweig

Jasdeep Singh

Gabriella Skirnick

Michael Sklow

Maxine Sleeper

Michael Slomienski

Michael Sloyer

Nicholas Smith (IBD)

Ruth Smithson

Christine Smyth

Ben Snider

Stacy Sonnenberg

Cleaver Sower

Ro Spaziani

Brian Steele

Johannes Steffens

Duncan Stewart

Stephen Stites

Laurent Storoni

Caroline Styant

Joel Sulkes

Mancy Sun

Winnie Tam

Nachiket Tamhane

Ken Tang

MK Tang

Amish Tanna

Melissa Teng

Ross Tennenbaum

Greg Thompson

Fiona Thomson

Justin Tobe

Jason Tofsky

Brad Tuthill

Masahiro Uchiyama

Nehal Udeshi

Saad Usmani

Meg Vaden

Pramod Vaidyanathan

Adam Van de Berghe

Fred van der Wyck

Suzanne van Staveren

Andrew Vass

Mahesh Vellanki

Kadambari Verma

Christopher Vilburn

Iva Vukina

Heng Vuong

Ketan Vyas

Joe Wall

Jeffrey Wang

Jiantao Wang

Joshua Wang

Lily Wang (Technology)

Sherry Wang

Victoria Ward (Compliance)

Jeff Warren

Noriko Watanabe

Ramey Watkins

Sam Watkins

Heiko Weber

Niki Webster

Scott Weinstein

Ryan Westmacott

James Westwood

Keith Wetzel

Mark Wetzel

James Whittingham

Sabine Wick

Robert Wieser

Devin Wilde

David Wilkins

John Wilkinson

Andrew Williams

Ed Wong (IBD Technology)

Eric Wong (Internal Audit)

Kate Wood

Amanda Wu

Douglas Wu

Joanne Xu

Liang Xu**

Rupam Yadav

Kazushi Yamaguchi

Hubert Yang

Lisa Yang

Basak Yavuz

Zeynep Yenel

David Yu

Brian Zakrocki

Thomas Zeppetella

Yi Zhang*

Adib Zouein

Patrik Zumstein

Piotr Zurawski

Jonathan Zwart

*Employee of Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities Company Limited

**Employee of Beijing Gao Hua Securities Company Limited

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