- Jim Cramer
James J. "Jim" Cramer (b., Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania) is an American television personality, former hedge fund manager, and best-selling author. Cramer is host of CNBC's "Mad Money" and co-founder of TheStreet.com. According to the January 27, 2006 episode of "High Net Worth" on CNBC, Cramer has accumulated a net worth of over $100 million. He currently resides in Summit, New Jersey.
- Henry Paulson
Henry M. Paulson Jr . , CEO, Goldman Sachs CEO Salaries Rose in 2001 While Economy Dipped
- John Thain
John Thain is the current CEO of the New York Stock Exchange. Previously, Thain was both president and Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs, starting in July, 2003. Before that, he was co-COO for four years and spent the following five years as Chief Financial Officer. He was successful enough in the firm to amass $300 million in stock. John Thain's memberships include: MIT Corporation, Dean's Advisory Council – MIT Sloan School of Management, …
- Abby Joseph Cohen
Abby Joseph Cohen 'Abby Joseph Cohen ' ( CFA ) (born 1952 in Queens, New York ) is an American economist and financial analyst on Wall Street . She is a partner and chief U.S. investment strategist at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Ms Cohen earned economics degrees from Cornell University and George Washington University then began her career as an economist in 1973 at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. serving until 1977.
- Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is the Governor of New Jersey. He was sworn into office on January 17, 2006, for a four-year term ending in 2010. He represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 2001 until 2006, when he stepped down to take his seat as Governor. Prior to his political career, Corzine was Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. He resides at Drumthwacket, the New Jersey Governor's official residence in Princeton, …
- Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital , Said Holdings , and the Precursor Group ; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures , a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute 's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations , the German Marshall Fund of the United States , and the World Wildlife Advisory Council ; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen 's Defense Policy Board .
- Mario Draghi
Mario Draghi (born September 3, 1947) is an Italian banker and economist, nominated to be the new governor of the Bank of Italy on December 29, 2005. He has taken office on January 16, 2006.
- Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett is co-anchor of the CNBC program, "Squawk on the Street". She and Mark Haines host the program from a set overlooking the New York Stock Exchange. In addition to "Squawk on the Street", she also anchors the network's 2pm ET program "Street Signs". Prior to joining CNBC in 2005, Burnett worked at Bloomberg Television, where she served as anchor of "Bloomberg on the Markets", covering the stock market open and newsmaker interviews, …
- Peter Sutherland
Peter Denis Sutherland, KCMG (born April 25 1946) is an Irish businessman and former politician, associated with the Fine Gael party. He is a barrister by profession, and is also Senior Counsel. A graduate of University College Dublin, Sutherland was appointed Attorney General of Ireland in the governments of Garret FitzGerald, and as a European Commissioner when he was a member of the first Delors Commission.
- Edward Lampert
Edward S. "Eddie" Lampert (born July 19 1962) is an American investor, financier and businessman. He is the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) and founder, chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments. Until May, 2007 he was a director of AutoNation, Inc. He previously served as a director of AutoZone, Inc. from 1999 to 2006. Lampert graduated from Yale University in 1984 (B.A., economics, summa cum laude), where he was a member of Skull and Bones and Phi Beta Kappa.
- Stephen Friedman
Stephen Friedman, born December_21, 1937, is the current Chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He was nominated on October 27, 2005 to replace Brent Scowcroft in the position. Friedman graduated from Cornell University in 1959, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1962. He worked for much of his career with investment bank Goldman Sachs, …
- Driss Ben-Brahim
Driss Ben-Brahim is the former head of Goldman Sachs exotic derivatives desk in London. He was the "toast of the City of London" in 2003 when he scooped the largest bonus in the City's history — £30M. On the 13th December 2006 Ben-Brahim was reported to have scooped a record £50m bonus as the head of the proprietary trading desk at Goldman Sachs in London. It is reported to be the largest ever bonus in the city, and one newspaper (London Lite), …
- Lisa Endlich
Lisa Endlich is a notable business writer and former vice-president at Goldman Sachs. She has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and worked as a trader at Goldman Sachs from 1985 to 1989.
- James A. Johnson
James A. Johnson is a United States Democratic Party political figure. He was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale's failed 1984 presidential bid and chaired the vice-presidential selection process for the presidential campaign of John Kerry. Johnson has long been one of Washington's most prominent leaders, holding leadership positions in business, the arts, and politics.
- John C. Whitehead
John Cunningham Whitehead (b. April 2 1922, Evanston, Illinois) is currently the chairman of the LMDC and World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. Whitehead graduated from Haverford College in 1943 and served in the Navy during World War II, where he participated in the D-Day landing. Later he joined the prestigious New York investment bank of Goldman Sachs, …
- Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954), Australian politician, is the Federal Minister for Environment and Water Resources. He is a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Wentworth in Sydney's eastern suburbs since October 2004. He was a barrister, merchant banker, and leader of the Australian Republican Movement before entering parliamentary politics.
- Emanuel Derman
Emanuel is a great writer. While anyone interested in either physics or quantitative finance will find his various thesis/projects quite an interesting read, the book really shines when it talks about his struggle with his Ph.D., shuttling between different cities in his post doc career and his life as a "quant" in investment banks. Highly recommended.
- Gary Cohn
Gary D. Cohn is a President and COO of Goldman Sachs. He has also financed the Gary D. Cohn Endowed Research Professorship in Finance at American University, his alma mater. Mr. Cohn is a founding board member with his wife Lisa Pevaroff Cohn of the New York University Child Study Center. They funded the Pevaroff Cohn Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine in 1999.
- Gavyn Davies
Gavyn Davies (born 27 November 1950) was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004, a former Goldman Sachs banker and a former economic advisor to the British Government. On 28 January 2004 he announced that he was resigning his BBC post following the publication of the Hutton Inquiry report which heavily criticised the organisation. Davies was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge and Balliol College, Oxford.
- Dick Gephardt
Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardt (born January 31, 1941) is senior counsel at the global law firm DLA Piper, an active consultant for Goldman Sachs, and a former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party. Gephardt served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005, and Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. Previously, from 1989 to 1995 he was Majority Leader.
- E. Gerald Corrigan
E. Gerald Corrigan (born June 13, 1941) is an American banker and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is currently a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Corrigan earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Fairfield University in 1963. He received a master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1971, both in economics, from Fordham University. In 1968, he began his career at the New York Federal Reserve, …
- Eric Mindich
Eric Mindich (1967-) started working at Goldman Sachs after high school, and spent summers at the firm while earning a degree in economics at Harvard. In 1994, at the age of 27, he became the youngest partner in Goldman's history. He learned the trading business on Goldman's risk-arbitrage desk betting on corporate mergers.
- John L. Thornton
John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a former President and Co-COO of Goldman Sachs. In 1983, Thornton founded and developed Goldman Sachs' European mergers and acquisitions business. He served as co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International in London from 1995 to 1996. Thornton was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia from 1996 to 1998, where he expanded the firm's regional franchise during the Asian financial crisis.
- Rajat Gupta
Rajat Kumar Gupta is the current special advisor on management reforms to the Secretary-General of the United Nation. He is also an independent director at Goldman Sachs and is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago.
- Bethany McLean
Bethany McLean (born 1970) is a senior editor and business writer for Fortune magazine and is best known as the co-author, with Fortune colleague Peter Elkind, of "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" (ISBN 1591840082), exposing the corrupt business practices of Enron officials.
- Lois Juliber
Ms. Juliber joined Colgate from General Foods to become President of Colgate's Far East Division in 1988. In 1992, she was promoted to Chief Technology Officer of the Corporation, a position she held until her promotion to President - Colgate North America in 1994.
- Marcus Goldman
Marcus Goldman (1821-1904) was a German-American businessman and entrepreneur. He was born in what is now Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1848. He was one of the original founders of Goldman Sachs, which today is one of the world's largest global investment banks.
- David Walton
David Robert Walton was a British economist, and a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from July 2005 until his death in June 2006. Walton gained a BA in Economics and Politics with first class honours at Van Mildert College, Durham University in 1984. After graduating Walton took a position at HM Treasury working as an economist. He held this position until 1986 when he left to pursue an MA in Economics at Warwick University, …
- Alexis Glick
Alexis Glick Lands Vice President of Business News for Fox Business Network Position [ManagersRealm] details
- Richard Kinder
Richard Kinder (born 1945) is a billionaire from Missouri, and former president of Enron. Kinder partnered with Bill Morgan to form Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, a large energy and pipeline corporation. In May 2006, Kinder and Morgan, with Fayez Sarofim and several investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, made an offer to take Kinder Morgan private. In August 2006, they succeeded in the buyout by enhancing their offer.
- Sidney Weinberg
Sidney Weinberg (? - July 23, 1969) was a long-time leader of the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs. In a rags-to-riches story, he rose from janitor to CEO.
- Uday Kotak
Uday Kotak is an Indian businessman. He is the vice-chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank. He owns 55% stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank, which he founded and runs. Forbes estimated his wealth at $2.2 bn in 2007 up from $1.1 bn the year earlier. In 2006 he ended a 14 year partnership with Goldman Sachs by acquiring its 25% stake in 2 subsidiaries for $72 million. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
- Blair Hull
Marson Blair Hull, Jr. (born September 3, 1942), commonly known as Blair Hull, is an American businessman and politician, notable for his attempt to win the Democratic Party nomination to serve in the United States Senate from Illinois in 2004. He is the founder and CEO of the Hull Group, an equity option market making firm that was sold to Goldman Sachs.
- Kathleen Brown
Kathleen Brown (b. 15th October 1946) is Democratic politician from California. She is the daughter of former Governor Pat Brown and the sister of California Attorney General Jerry Brown (also a former Governor of California). Brown is an attorney and was first elected to the Los Angeles City Board of Education in 1975, and reelected in 1979. She was elected California State Treasurer in 1990.
- John H. Bryan
John Henry Bryan, Jr. is the former CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation. A graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, he is also affiliated with the French Legion of Honor, the World Economic Forum, and was a Member of the Board for Sara Lee, Goldman Sachs, General Motors, British Petroleum, and Bank One. John H. Bryan is also a philanthropist and art collector.
- William W. George
William W. George is a professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, former Executive-in-Residence at the Yale School of Management, and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medtronic. He is the author of the 2003 book, "Authentic Leadership" which was a BusinessWeek best-seller and the 2007 release, "True North" released by Jossey-Bass.
- Ruth J. Simmons
Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution. According to a January 2007 poll by the Brown Daily Herald, Simmons enjoys a more than 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, …
- Edward M. Liddy
Edward M. Liddy is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Allstate Corporation. He is currently on the Board of 3M, Goldman Sachs and The Kroger Company.
- Bradley Abelow
Bradley Abelow is the State Treasurer of the U.S. State of New Jersey. He was appointed Treasurer by Governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine and took office on January 23, 2006. In his role as Treasurer, Abelow oversees the New Jersey Department of the Treasury, and its approximately 4,000 employees who work in the eleven divisions and offices of the Department of the Treasury to perform three major functions: Revenue collection and generation, …
- Kwame Jackson
Kwame Jackson of New York, New York, was one of the two final candidates on Donald Trump's American television reality series "The Apprentice". His second place finish was due to his failure to competently deal with Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, a fellow contestant selected by Jackson to work under him during the final episode. His prize was a job as a judge for the Miss Universe pageant, …