Goldman Sachs Names 109 Partners for 2026, Effective January 1, 2027

Goldman Sachs will add 109 professionals to its partnership on January 1, 2027, when its Partner Class of 2026 takes office at the start of the firm’s next fiscal year.

The class spans Asset & Wealth Management, Global Banking & Markets, Global Investment Research, Engineering, Executive Office and The Core. Goldman Sachs says the partnership represents one of the firm’s most senior leadership groups, with members playing important roles in client relationships, business development, risk management and the direction of the institution.

Chairman and CEO David Solomon and President and Chief Operating Officer John Waldron announced the selections, according to Goldman Sachs. They emphasized the firm’s “longstanding partnership culture” and “commitment to developing future leaders.”

The appointments cover investment banking, asset management, securities trading, engineering, research and corporate functions. Goldman Sachs said the class recognizes professionals who supported clients, contributed to international operations and demonstrated leadership across different businesses.

The new partners work in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Paris, Frankfurt, Sydney and other financial and business centers. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in major financial centers worldwide. The bank provides investment banking, securities, asset management, wealth management and other financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individual clients.

The scale of the class extends Goldman Sachs’ senior leadership across client work, corporate functions and international offices.

Who makes up Goldman Sachs’ Partner Class of 2026?

Goldman Sachs assigned each selected professional to one division and city:

Asset & Wealth Management

• Vikas Agrawal — New York; Raul Aldrey — Richardson; Craig Balenzuela — Sydney; Dennis Beeson — Atlanta; Daphne Chan — Singapore; Lily Chan — Hong Kong; Omar Chaudhary — Irvine
• Sung Cho — New York; Anupam Damani — New York; Adam Dawson — London; Zachary Eckler — New York; Brian Grzelakowski — Chicago; Anushka Gupta — New York; Yu Itoki — Tokyo
• Benjamin Johnson — New York; Amy Jupe — London; Aron Kershner — New York; Banu Kisakurek — London; Kyle Kniffen — New York; Som Krishna — Singapore; Sarah McNally — Chicago
• Gabriel Mollerberg — London; Antoine Munfa — New York; Frank Murphy — New York; Naveen Nallappa — New York; Patrick Ordynans — London; Nikhil Reddy — Hong Kong
• John Sienkiewicz — New York; Sirion Skulpone — New York; Jack Springate — West Palm Beach; Pramod Vaidyanathan — New York; Greg Weiss — New York; Andrew White — Dallas

Global Banking & Markets

• Felicity Anderson — London; Guillaume Banderet — London; Joshua Banschick — New York; Sushil Bathija — Hong Kong; Christian Beerli — Hong Kong
• David Bodenstein — London; Erin Briggs — New York; Pierre Brunet — Paris; Thomas Campbell — Boston; Yufeng Cao — Singapore
• Siddharth Chhabria — Hong Kong; Ryan Cunn — New York; Gaudenz Eichenberger — London; Chris Emmerson — London; Akhil Garg — New York
• Luke Gordon — New York; Simon Gosling — New York; Brian Greeff — New York; Puneet Gupta — London; Lalit Gurnani — San Francisco
• George Horton — London; David Jeria — New York; Yugandhar Karna — London; Michael Klym — Toronto; Praveen Korapaty — New York
• Tibor Kossa — Frankfurt; Kristin Kramer — New York; David Landers — London; Phillip Lee — New York; Brian Levin — New York
• Derek Li — New York; Matthew Lucas — San Francisco; Josef Menasche — New York; Marco Messeri — Milan; Amal Moussa — New York
• Mathieu Munuera — Paris; Arjun Nagpal — Singapore; Ajit Nema — New York; Hiroshi Ozawa — Tokyo; Dhaval Parekh — New York
• Frederic Pripp — Hong Kong; Mark Romanczuk — New York; Neil Rudisill — New York; Praneet Shah — London; Ashoke Sharma — Bengaluru
• David Sprake — London; Anushree Srivastava — London; Pavlos Syrimis — Paris; Hekmat Tannous — London; Alekhya Uppalapati — New York
• Peter VanDeventer — New York; Kyle VanFleet — New York; Neel Vora — New York; James Wang — Hong Kong; Jeff Warren — New York
• Sabine Wick — London; Jake Woodson — New York; Satoshi Yamagata — Tokyo; Vincent Yeung — Hong Kong; Jonathan Zwart — New York

Global Investment Research

• Alexander Blostein — New York; David Mericle — New York

Engineering Division

• John Chappell — London; Rohan Deshpande — Seattle; Ramanathan Narayanan — Dallas
• Gowri Sekar — Bengaluru; Wesley Williams — Dallas

Executive Office

• Jehan Ilahi — New York; Michael Thompson — Washington D.C.

The Core

• Andrew Fisher — London; Francesca Gardner — New York; Karen Ip — Hong Kong; Petra Monteiro — London
• Asad Naqvi — New York; Matt Slater — Singapore; Inna Swenson — New York

The roster places all 109 appointees within six named divisions, tying the 2027 partnership to Goldman Sachs’ operating structure across major financial centers.

What happens on January 1, 2027?

The 109 selected professionals will formally assume their new partnership positions on January 1, 2027. Goldman Sachs says the appointments add to senior leadership at the start of its next fiscal year and highlight the breadth of its international operations and continued emphasis on leadership development across client-facing and internal business functions.

For Goldman Sachs, 2027 starts with 109 new partners joining a senior group responsible for client relationships, business development, risk management and the direction of the institution.