Who exactly are Goldman Sachs' 109 new partners?

As of today, Goldman Sachs has some new partners. 109 of them, to be exact, an absolutely huge class - the biggest class since 2010, way up on the 95 it promoted in 2024, and way way up on the 80 it promoted in 2022.

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Goldman Sachs’ partners are a by-product of when the firm was legally a partnership (it went public as a corporation in 1999), but there are very, very real perks attached. A salary of more than $1m, for example. A share of a special bonus pool. And the opportunity to invest in Goldman's own funds, which provide carried-interest style compensation. A lot of money. Plus David Solomon or John Waldron call you to tell you, which is fun.

62 of the firm's new partners are in the Americas, 27 are in EMEA, and 20 are in Asia. Around 40% of them joined the firm from university - lifers - and around 60% joined from a rival firm. The youngest, by our estimations, are around 34, and the oldest are in their mid-50s.

The most represented cities - in order - were New York (47 partners), London (22), and Hong Kong (9). India had just 2 employees named partner, fewer than Japan's 3, despite Goldman having 8,000 people in India, and around 1,000 in Japan.

But - without further ado - here is the Goldman Sachs Partner Class of 2026: 

Vikas Agrawal - MD, Co-Head of Energy Transition and Climate, Private Credit
Also ran the bank's Alternative Energy Investing group for 17 years from 2006. 

Raul Aldrey - MD, Global Head of Marcus Engineering
The least-tenured (at Goldman) person on the list. Came from Citi in only June 2025, so made partner after 17 months at the firm.

Felicity Anderson - MD, XVA Trading head
An Oxford physicist who joined straight from university in 2013. At about 35, she's one of the youngest partners in the class.

Craig Balenzuela - MD, Head of Australia & New Zealand Client Business, Asset Management
A late arrival from Australian state-backed fund manager QIC in 2022. Made partner within five years of walking through the door. Not bad.

Guillaume Banderet - MD, Inflation Trading
An inflation trading specialist who did stints at UBS and Deutsche. Partner just 13 years after leaving university, making him one of the youngest on the list.

Joshua Banschick - MD, Mortgage Trading
Survived Bear Stearns' 2008 collapse, rode the rescue into JPMorgan, and has now made partner trading mortgages. Ironic? Maybe a bit.

Sushil Bathija - MD, Head of M&A and Consumer Retail Group, Asia ex-Japan
Has been an MD since 2016. Patience does get rewarded.

Christian Beerli - MD
Arrived as a Zurich academic, working as a finance research and teaching assistant, and has been at Goldman for 20 years. In Hong Kong, obviously.

Dennis Beeson - MD, Private Bank
Former EY accountant who has spent 20 years at Goldman, moving from distressed debt to asset finance to the private bank.

Alexander Blostein - MD, Equity Research (Financials)
Research partners are rare. He covers asset managers, brokers, and exchanges, among others.

David Bodenstein - MD, Head of European IG, Levfin and Macro Trading

Erin Briggs - MD, Equity Derivatives Sales

Pierre Brunet - MD, Co-Head of EMEA Commodity Sales
Joined Goldman in 2008. Seen a lot since then.

Thomas Campbell - MD, Equity Derivatives and Convertible Bond Sales
A Boston lifer. Went from Boston College straight into Goldman's Boston office 23 years ago. Boston, Boston, Boston. Might be a New York Yankees fan.

Yufeng Cao - Head of Asia Commodities Trading; Co-Head of Global Oil and Products Trading
Runs one of Goldman's most profitable trading businesses.

Daphne Chan - MD, CEO, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Singapore
Joined in 2010 selling money market funds, and now runs GSAM in Singapore.

Lily Chan - MD, Alternative Investments
At Credit Suisse before joining Goldman in 2012.

John Chappell - MD, Engineering
An elder statesman, really: joined Goldman Sachs International in 1997, nigh on 30 years ago, but was only made MD in 2020.

Omar Chaudhary - MD, Head of Alternatives Multi-Strategy Solutions, Americas
A 26-year veteran who raised money for Goldman's private credit push before swapping Manhattan for Newport Beach, California. Can you blame him?

Sung Cho - MD, Co-Head of US Fundamental Equity and Public Tech Investing
Could have been a concert pianist, as he spent nine years in Juilliard's pre-college programme before becoming a stock picker.

Ryan Cunn - MD
Took a demotion to join Goldman, going from director at Deutsche to VP. The gamble paid off, as he was an MD within 19 months. Did have to spend 7 years after that as MD, though.

Anupam Damani - MD, Co-Head of Global Emerging Markets Debt
A star hire from Nuveen in 2023 and a former Bond Manager of the Year. Made partner within three years of arriving. Not bad at all.

Adam Dawson - MD, Global Co-Head of Healthcare Private Equity
A Canadian chemical engineer turned healthcare investor.

Rohan Deshpande - MD and Technology Fellow, Head of Application Development Platform
Joined from Amazon Web Services, where he was a principal engineer and founding member of the GraphQL Foundation's board.

Zachary Eckler - MD

Gaudenz Eichenberger - MD

Chris Emmerson - MD
Jumped ship from Merrill Lynch in 2009, a year after Bank of America's rescue takeover. Has spent 17 years at Goldman since.

Andrew Fisher - MD, Global Head of Asset Liability Management
Spent twenty years trading derivatives before this. Goldman lifer of 21+ years.

Francesca Gardner - MD, Global COO, Human Capital Management and Corporate Workplace Solutions
Started her career in press relations, of all things, at Brunswick.

Akhil Garg - MD, Structured Finance

Luke Gordon - MD, Head of M&A for Global Industrials
27-year veteran of Goldman. Patient, we presume.

Simon Gosling - MD
Joined from Deutsche in 2008 and spent 11 years as an MD before making partner.

Brian Greeff - MD, Global head of Prime Services Operations, Client Onboarding Operations, and Fees and Commissions Operations
One of the older new partners, having graduated in 1997. Former board chair of the Utah Opera.

Brian Grzelakowski - Midwest Region Head, Private Wealth Management
A former college football player for the University of Illinois who now runs Goldman's wealth business across the Midwest. 5”11 and 215 pounds.

Anushka Gupta - MD, Head of Goldman Sachs Apex (Americas)
Started as an analyst in July 2008, weeks before Lehman collapsed. Now runs Goldman's coverage of family offices across the Americas. Much safer job.

Puneet Gupta - MD, Head of Macro Synthetics Trading EMEA

Lalit Gurnani - MD, Investment Banking (TMT)
A neuroscience graduate who worked in Lloyd Blankfein's Office of the Chairman early in his career. Now a tech banker.

George Horton - MD, Head of EMEA Business Services Investment Banking
A Masters in Finance graduate from London Business School before joining Goldman as an associate. Partner within 15 years. Not bad.

Jehan Ilahi - Global Head of Investor Relations
A former JPMorgan banker to financial institutions. Now sells Goldman to its own shareholders.

Karen Ip - MD, Senior Counsel
A rare lawyer partner. Spent 20 years advising Goldman's Hong Kong business.

Yu Itoki - Japan Head of Private Equity and Growth Equity
Joined straight out of the University of Tokyo in 2011 and now runs Japanese private equity investing in his late 30s. One of the younger partners on the list.

David Jeria - MD, Equity Execution
A double MIT engineering graduate who spent a decade as a VP. Partner eight years after finally making MD.

Benjamin Johnson - MD, Global Head of Corporate Credit, Asset Management
Probably the oldest of the new partners, at around 57.

Yugandhar Karna - MD
Goldman lifer of 21 years.

Aron Kershner - MD, Co-Head of Portfolio Management, Quantitative Equity Solutions
Spent nine years volunteering as a running guide for disabled marathon runners with Achilles International. Goldman lifer of more than two decades.

Banu Kisakurek - MD, Global Co-Head of Asset-Backed Finance
A physicist who spent seven years in Istanbul doing deals for Goldman across Turkey and the Middle East. Now runs one of private credit's more exciting areas.

Michael Klym - CEO, Goldman Sachs Canada
Practised as a lawyer at Calgary firm Bennett Jones before switching to banking. Now runs Goldman’s whole Canadian business. Not bad.

Kyle Kniffen - MD, Global Head of Alternatives, Third Party Wealth
Came from BofA Merrill Lynch to sell Goldman's private funds to wealthy investors.

Praveen Korapaty - Chief Interest Rates Strategist
A Wharton PhD who started at Lehman in 2005 and worked there through its collapse. Now Goldman's headline voice on interest rates.

Tibor Kossa - Co-Head of Investment Banking, Germany & Austria
Spent 16 years at Credit Suisse before switching in 2018. Now co-runs Goldman's German banking business.

Kristin Kramer - MD, Global Head of Capital Introduction
A Columbia history graduate who joined Goldman straight from college. On the younger side of the list -late 30s, by our calculations.

David Landers - MD, Healthcare Investment Banking
Learned the business in Goldman's Executive Office and working directly for the head of investment banking. A healthcare banker and partner in his mid-30s.

Phillip Lee - MD, Head of Real Money Franchise, Global Interest Rate Sales

Brian Levin - MD, Head of LatAm Asset Finance & Trading
A teenage entrepreneur who founded BDL Capital Advisors two years before starting university. Partner at about 36.

Derek Li - MD, Head of Real Assets & Esoterics, Alternative Markets Group
VP for 15 years, made MD in 2022, and partner just four years later. No know connection to the occult.

Matthew Lucas - MD, Technology Investment Banking
Former computer engineer at Microsoft, Cravath lawyer, and now, finally, a Silicon Valley banker. All roads seemingly lead to Goldman.

Sarah McNally - MD, Co-Head of US Private Bank Lending
A former Dartmouth tennis captain who started her career at Lehman Brothers in 2006 and was there when it collapsed. Came to Goldman via Barclays and Morgan Stanley.

Josef Menasche - MD
Joined as an MD from secondaries adviser Campbell Lutyens in 2021, and is now a partner at just 35ish.

David Mericle - Chief US Economist
Spent 11 straight years at Harvard before Goldman.

Marco Messeri - MD, Head of EMEA Infrastructure
Goldman veteran who has spent almost 24 years at Goldman since leaving Bocconi.

Gabriel Mollerberg - MD, External Investing Group, Vintage Strategies

Petra Monteiro - MD, International Controller
A physicist who became a KPMG accountant who became a Goldmanite.

Amal Moussa - MD, Head of US Single Stocks Exotic Derivatives Trading
Columbia statistics PhD who still teaches financial engineering there sometimes. Sits on the board of France's elite mathematics institute, IHES.

Antoine Munfa - MD, Head of Healthcare Technology Investing, Growth Equity
Yale and Harvard. Now picks healthcare tech stocks for Goldman's growth equity business.

Frank Murphy - MD, Asset & Wealth Management
27-year veteran of the firm who joined Goldman in 1999.

Arjun Nagpal - MD, Head of Asia EM Macro Trading
Only joined from Bank of America in 2022, but has already risen to run Asian emerging markets macro trading.

Naveen Nallappa - COO, Goldman Sachs Wealth Management
Went from analyst to COO of the wealth business in 13 years and is now a partner at around 35.

Asad Naqvi - MD, Global Head of Risk Modeling/Strats
A former string theory researcher who was a member of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.

Ramanathan Narayanan - MD and Technology Fellow
Had a career in artificial intelligence before it was cool, as a natural language processing PhD with internships at Google and Amazon.

Ajit Nema - MD, Quantitative Strategist, Interest Rate Products
An IIT Bombay computer scientist who joined Goldman's quants in June 2008, three months before the world fell apart. Great timing.

Patrick Ordynans - Co-Head of European Direct Lending
A direct lending specialist who worked at Alcentra before Goldman went big on private credit. 

Dhaval Parekh - MD, Global Head of Equities Execution Engineering
A Mumbai commerce graduate who retrained as a technologist, joined GS in 2000, and has now built extensive parts of Goldman's equities trading plumbing.

Frederic Pripp - MD, Equity Derivatives Trading
A former captain of Imperial College's golf team who made MD within eight years of graduating. Partner in his mid-30s.

Nikhil Reddy - MD, Head of Real Estate, Asia Pacific, Goldman Sachs Alternatives
Joined Goldman's Special Situations Group three months before Lehman failed. Now runs Asian real estate investing from Hong Kong. Career timing has appeared to improve dramatically.

Mark Romanczuk - Americas Commercial Real Estate Lending
Named one of the most powerful players in commercial real estate finance by Commercial Observer.

Neil Rudisill - MD, Investment Banking
Studied “Global Governance and Diplomacy” at Oxford. Also a former consultant. Joined Goldman as a VP from Barclays around a decade ago.

Gowri Sekar - MD and Tech Fellow, India Head of Core Engineering
Spent six years in New York before going home to lead Goldman's huge Bengaluru engineering hub.

Praneet Shah - MD, Global Head of FX Options Trading
Was Cambridge University's top economist and won the Adam Smith Prize. Now runs FX options globally in his late 30s.

Ashoke Sharma - MD, Global Head of Operations Engineering
Was already an MD at RBS before Goldman hired him. Has worked across London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and India.

John Sienkiewicz - MD
Valedictorian of Columbia Engineering, joined as an analyst the same year and made MD in 11 years. A partner in his late 30s.

Sirion Skulpone - MD, Head of Client Portfolio Management, Custom Equity and Direct Indexing
Very very long time VP who made a late surge to partner, thanks to the popularity of direct indexing, one of asset management's fastest-growing products.

Matt Slater - MD
A Magic Circle lawyer from Clifford Chance who switched sides to banking. Now a partner in Singapore.

David Sprake - MD, Investment Banking 

Jack Springate - MD, Head of Hedge Funds, External Investing Group
A Cambridge rugby man who now picks hedge funds for Goldman's clients, from Florida.

Anushree Srivastava - MD, Global Head of FICC Engineering
Joined straight out of LSE in 2005 and now runs the technology behind Goldman's fixed income trading machine.

Inna Swenson - COO, Goldman Sachs Bank USA
Spent nine years as a VP and is now partner and COO of the bank inside the bank.

Pavlos Syrimis - MD, Head of GSBE Equities Trading & EMEA Flow Derivatives
Possibly the class's youngest partner, at around 34 years old. Left Warwick in 2013 and now runs equities trading for Goldman's EU bank in Paris.

Hekmat Tannous - MD, Head of Global Currencies and Emerging Markets Strats, and Structured Funding Derivatives Strats
Before Goldman, he was a lieutenant in the French Foreign Legion, stationed in Corsica. Later became Goldman's emerging markets and crypto strategist. Great pivot.

Michael Thompson - MD, Head of Global Government and Regulatory Affairs
Goldman's chief lobbyist in Washington and a former Senate staffer, including for Mike Enzi and Sam Brownback - both Republicans.

Alekhya Uppalapati - Global Co-Head Internet and Media Investment Banking

Pramod Vaidyanathan - Chief Risk Officer, Asset & Wealth Management
An engineer. Once upon a time published academic research on the game theory of hiding information. Risk seems an appropriate career pivot.

Peter VanDeventer - MD
Started as an analyst two months before Lehman collapsed. His timing has since improved.

Neel Vora - MD, Head of US Single Stock Volatility Trading
A serial angel investor on the side who trades volatility by day. Joined GS from JPMorgan back in 2015.

James Wang - MD, Co-Head of Asia ex-Japan Equity Capital Markets
An engineer who has run Goldman's Asian ECM franchise since 2018.

Jeff Warren - MD, fixed income sales
Goldman lifer who climbed every rung from analyst to partner in 19 years.

Greg Weiss - MD, Wealth Solutions
Brought in from BlackRock in 2023 and now a partner, just three years later. One of the least Goldman-tenured partners in the list.

Andrew White - MD, Global Head of Real Estate Credit
Spent 13 years as a VP before taking off. Named one of the most powerful players in commercial real estate finance by Commercial Observer.

Sabine Wick - Co-Head of EMEA Leveraged Finance
Started as an analyst with the firm in Frankfurt and now co-runs Goldman's European leveraged finance desk.

Wesley Williams - MD, Engineering
A 27-year Dallas engineering veteran who joined in 1999.

Jake Woodson - Head of US Leveraged Finance Trading
A former college football player for UBC in Canada and, at around 34, one of this year’s partner class's youngest partner.

Satoshi Yamagata - Co-Head of Japan M&A
Promoted to co-run Japan M&A last December, just as the country's dealmaking boom was gathering pace. Good timing.

Vincent Yeung - MD, Head of APAC Single Stock Derivatives Trading
Goldman lifer and double MIT computer science graduate who has spent his entire 20-year career on Goldman's Asian derivatives desks.

Jonathan Zwart - MD, Corporate Derivatives and Debt Capital Markets
Zwart if a lifer, having joined Goldman's investment banking division straight from UNC in 2007.

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