Goldman Sachs Just Dropped the Names of Its Biggest Partner Class in Year

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Goldman Sachs promoted 80 people to partner status on Wednesday, marking the largest class since David Solomon took over as CEO in 2018.

Twenty-three of the new members are women and seven identify as black — the highest ever figures in both cases, the company said. Nineteen partners identify as Asian, two as Hispanic or Latinx, and two as LGBTQ+. 

Goldman only adds new names to its exclusive partnership once every other year. Partners are the company's highest title outside of the C-suite. Most other Wall Street banks, like Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Citi, announce new managing director promotions on an annual basis.

Goldman's partner class has been steadily shrinking since David Solomon took over as CEO in 2018. That year, just 69 people made the list, down from 84 during the previous round in 2016. In 2020, just 60 people were promoted to partner status.  

The sales and trading division is home to the most new partners with 27.  Here is how the 2022 class breaks down by company division:

The average tenure of this year's group is 16 years, and 43% of the new partners joined as campus hires.

Being named partner comes with a healthy paycheck and numerous other perks, including a salary of around $1 million, access to a special bonus pool, and an opportunity to invest in fee-free investment funds. 

Last year, Goldman gave its roughly 400 partners special one-time payments that added millions of dollars to their already generous year-end bonuses. (Of course, the payments were made in an effort to retain employees following a record year of M&A, which has since ground to halt.)    

Here are all 80 Goldman Sachs employees who got the call of a lifetime this week: 

Osman Ali, New York

Amal Alibair, Washington, DC

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

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

Greg Wilson, New York

Ed Wittig, New York

William Wolcott, West Palm Beach

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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