Our People
Lloyd C. Blankfein
Gary D. Cohn
John F. W. Rogers
Lloyd C. Blankfein
Mr. Blankfein has been our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since June 2006 and a director since April 2003. Previously, he had been our President and Chief Operating Officer since January 2004. Prior to that, from April 2002 until January 2004, he was a Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, with management responsibility for Goldman Sachs’ Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division (FICC) and Equities Division (Equities). Prior to becoming a Vice Chairman, he had served as co-head of FICC since its formation in 1997. From 1994 to 1997, he headed or co-headed the Currency and Commodities Division. Mr. Blankfein is not on the board of any public company other than Goldman Sachs and has not been a director of any other public company in the past five years. He is affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School, the Harvard University Committee on University Resources and the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, an overseer of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and a co-chairman of the Partnership for New York City.
Gary D. Cohn
Mr. Cohn has been our President and Chief Operating Officer since April 2009 and a director since June 2006, and was our President and Co-Chief Operating Officer from June 2006 through March 2009. Previously, he had been the co-head of Goldman Sachs’ global securities businesses since January 2004. He also had been the co-head of Equities since 2003 and the co-head of FICC since September 2002. From March 2002 to September 2002, he served as co-chief operating officer of FICC. Prior to that, beginning in 1999, Mr. Cohn managed the FICC macro businesses. From 1996 to 1999, he was the global head of Goldman Sachs’ commodities business. Mr. Cohn is not on the board of any public company other than Goldman Sachs and has not been a director of any other public company in the past five years. He is affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and as a trustee of the Gilmour Academy, NYU Hospital, NYU Medical School, the Harlem Children’s Zone and American University.
John H. Bryan
Mr. Bryan is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sara Lee Corporation, where he spent more than 25 years overseeing this global consumer products company. He served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1975 to June 2000 and as its Chairman of the Board from 1976 until his retirement in October 2001. Mr. Bryan has been a director of Goldman Sachs since November 1999. He is not on the board of any public company other than Goldman Sachs. He has been a director of the following public companies in the past five years: BP p.l.c. and General Motors Corporation. He is also the past Chairman of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc. and the past Vice Chairman and a current member of The Business Council. He also served as Co-Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s annual meetings in 1994, 1997 and 2000. In addition, Mr. Bryan is affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as a Life Trustee of The University of Chicago, as the past Chairman and Life Trustee of the Board of Trustees of The Art Institute of Chicago, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Millennium Park, Inc., and as the past Chairman and a current member of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is also the past Chairman of Catalyst.
Claes Dahlbäck
Mr. Dahlbäck serves as a Senior Advisor to Investor AB, a Swedish-based investment company, and is also a Senior Advisor at Foundation Asset Management, which is owned by three Wallenberg Foundations and which acts as advisor to the Foundations with respect to their holdings. He previously served as Investor AB’s nonexecutive Chairman from April 2002 until April 2005, its Vice Chairman from April 1999 until April 2002 and its President and Chief Executive Officer from 1978 until April 1999. Mr. Dahlbäck has been a director of Goldman Sachs since June 2003. Mr. Dahlbäck is not on the board of any public company other than Goldman Sachs. He has been a director of the following public companies in the past five years: Gambro AB and Stora Enso OYJ. Mr. Dahlbäck is affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and of Naval Sciences, as Honorary Doctor and Director of the Stockholm School of Economics, as Chair of the Leader of the Year Award, as Chair of the Stockholm School of Economics Association and as Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland. He is also a recipient of the Swedish Kings medal of the Twelfth Dimension with the Seraphim ribbon
Stephen Friedman
Mr. Friedman has been Chairman of Stone Point Capital, a private equity firm, since June 2006; from May 2005 until then, he was a Senior Advisor to Stone Point Capital. He was Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and Chairman of the Intelligence Oversight Board from January 2006 to January 2009. He served as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council from December 2002 until December 2004. Mr. Friedman is also a past Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. From 1998 until December 2002, Mr. Friedman was a senior principal of MMC Capital, the predecessor of Stone Point Capital. He retired as Senior Partner and Chairman of the Management Committee of The Goldman Sachs Group, L.P., our predecessor, in 1994, having joined the firm in 1966. Mr. Friedman has been a director of Goldman Sachs since April 2005. Mr. Friedman is not on the board of any public company other than Goldman Sachs and has not been a director of any other public company in the past five years. In addition, he is affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as a board member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Memorial Sloan Kettering and The Aspen Institute.
William W. George
Mr. George was Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic, Inc. from May 1991 to May 2001 and its Chairman of the Board from April 1996 until his retirement in April 2002. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Medtronic, he spent ten years as a senior executive with Honeywell International Inc. and ten years with Litton Industries, primarily as President of Litton Microwave Cooking. Mr. George is a Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches leadership and leadership development. He was formerly Professor of Leadership and Governance at the International Institute for Management Development from January 2002 until May 2003, Visiting Professor of Technology Management at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from January 2002 until May 2003 and an Executive-in-Residence at the Yale School of Management from September 2003 through December 2003. He has published extensively on leadership and corporate governance issues. Mr. George has been a director of Goldman Sachs since December 2002. Mr. George is on the board of one public company in addition to Goldman Sachs: Exxon Mobil Corporation (Board Affairs Committee, Advisory Committee on Contributions and Compensation Committee (Chair)). He has also been a director of the following public companies in the past five years: Novartis AG and Target Corporation. In addition, he is affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as a board member of the World Economic Forum USA and the Guthrie Theater and as a member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
James A. Johnson
Mr. Johnson has been a Vice Chairman of Perseus, L.L.C., a merchant banking and private equity firm, since April 2001. From January 2000 to March 2001, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Capital Partners, a private investment company. From January through December 1999, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Fannie Mae, having previously served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from February 1991 through December 1998 and its Vice Chairman from 1990 through February 1991. Mr. Johnson has been a director of Goldman Sachs since May 1999. He is on the boards of the following public companies in addition to Goldman Sachs: Forestar Group Inc. (Management Development and Executive Compensation Committee (Chair)), formerly a subsidiary of Temple-Inland Inc., and Target Corporation (Executive Committee, Corporate Governance Committee (Chair), Compensation Committee (Chair) and Corporate Responsibility Committee). He has also been a director of the following public companies in the past five years: Gannett Co., Inc., KB Home, Temple-Inland and UnitedHealth Group Inc. Mr. Johnson is also affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as Chairman Emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as a member of each of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Friends of Bilderberg and the Council on Foreign Relations, and as an honorary trustee of The Brookings Institution.
Lois D. Juliber
Ms. Juliber was a Vice Chairman of the Colgate-Palmolive Company from July 2004 until March 2005. She served as Colgate-Palmolive’s Chief Operating Officer from March 2000 to September 2004, as its Executive Vice President — North America and Europe from 1997 until March 2000 and as President of Colgate North America from 1994 to 1997. Ms. Juliber has been a director of Goldman Sachs since March 2004. Ms. Juliber is on the board of the following public companies in addition to Goldman Sachs: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Strategic Direction Committee, Audit Committee (Chair) and Corporate Governance Committee) and Kraft Foods Inc. (Compensation Committee and Public Affairs Committee). She has not been a director of any other public company in the last five years. She is affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as Chairman of The MasterCard Foundation and a trustee of Wellesley College and Women’s World Banking.
Lakshmi N. Mittal
Mr. Mittal has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ArcelorMittal S.A. since May 2008. He previously served as ArcelorMittal’s President and Chief Executive Officer from November 2006 to May 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Mittal was Chief Executive Officer of Mittal Steel Company N.V. (formerly the LNM Group) since 1976, when he founded the company. Mr. Mittal has been a director of Goldman Sachs since June 2008. Mr. Mittal is on the board of the following public company in addition to Goldman Sachs and ArcelorMittal: European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V. He has also been a director of the following public companies in the past five years: ICICI Bank Limited. In addition, Mr. Mittal is affiliated with non-profit organizations, including as a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the Board of Trustees of Cleveland Clinic, the Executive Committee of World Steel Association and the Executive Board of the Indian School of Business, and as a Golden Patron of The Prince’s Trust.
James J. Schiro
Mr. Schiro is the former Chief Executive Officer of Zurich Financial Services, a position he held from 2002 until December 2009. He previously served as Zurich’s Chief Operating Officer — Finance from March 2002 to May 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Schiro was Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1998 to 2002 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Price Waterhouse from 1995 to 1998, having previously held a variety of other positions at Price Waterhouse since 1967. Mr. Schiro has been a director of Goldman Sachs since May 2009. Mr. Schiro is on the boards of the following public companies in addition to Goldman Sachs: PepsiCo, Inc. (Audit Committee (Chair)) and Royal Philips Electronics (Corporate Governance and Nomination & Selection Committee). He has not been a director of any other public company in the last five years. In addition, Mr. Schiro is a director of certain non-profit organizations, including St. John’s University, a member of the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, a trustee of each of the Institute for Advanced Study and the Lucerne Festival, and Vice Chairman of the American Friends of the Lucerne Festival.
