The day is a little bit brighter for the 78 Goldman Sachs employees who were just named partners of the firm. Just 11 are women, but that’s actually up from the 10 that were named in 2012. That’s the highest percentage since at least 2006 – something that can be seen as either positive or negative.
As per usual, the majority of the class comes from Goldman’s investment banking and securities divisions, accounting for 48 of the 78 new partners. The same number were named in 2012, but the overall class was smaller. Goldman named just 70 partners two years ago, the smallest group since the bank went public in 1999.
A whopping 50 partners work in the Americas, with just 19 representing EMEA and eight coming from APAC. One new partner works in India.
Perhaps the highlight of the day is the fact that the very media contact contained on the press release happened to have made the list. Richard L. “Jake” Siewert, Jr., Goldman’s global head of communications, is now a partner. We reached out to him for comment but haven’t heard back yet.
Jennifer Barbetta, a chief operating officer within Goldman Sachs’ asset management unit, was also named partner. She took part in a Glass Hammer piece in 2011 on what it’s like to be openly gay on Wall Street.
Kunal Shah, an emerging markets trader in London, also made the list. He’s just 32 years old, according to Forbes. He was named a managing director at 27.
The full list of partners is below:
Fadi Abuali
Aaron Arth
Jennifer Barbetta
Thomas Barrett
Gerard Beatty
Shane Bolton
Will Bousquette
Kane Brenan
Tavis Cannell ’
T.J. Carella
Gary Chropuvka
Darren Cohen
Stephanie Cohen
Kathleen Connolly
Sara Devereux
Iain Drayton
Carlos Fernandez-Aller
Jonathan Fine
Meena Lakdawala Flynn
David Friedland
Jan Fritze
Dino Fusco
Huntley Garriott
Jeff Gido
Littleton Glover
Cyril Goddeeris
Alexander Golten
Jason Gottlieb
Joanne Hannaford
Julie Harris
Edouard Hervey
Matthias Hieber
Charles Himmelberg
Sean Hoover
Pierre Hudry
Irfan Hussain
Kevin Kelly
Tammy Kiely
Maxim Klimov
Edward Knight
Etsuko Kobayashi
Nyron Latif
Greg Lee
Dirk Lievens
Kyri Loupis
John Madsen
Richard Manley
Michael Marsh
Ali Meli
David Miller
Joseph Montesano
Eric Muller
Manikandan Natarajan
Fergal O’Driscoll
Kristin Olson
Jernej Omahen
Nicholas Phillips
Rob Pulford
Colin Ryan
Carsten Schwarting
Kunal Shah (London)
Richard L. “Jake” Siewert
Jason Silvers
Kevin Sterling
Umesh Subramanian
Dan Swift
Ben Thorpe
Oliver Thym
Joe Todd
Hiroyuki Tomokiyo
Thomas Tormey
Mark Van Wyk
Rajesh Venkataramani
Matthew Verrochi
Owen West
Ronnie Wexler
Xiaoyin Zhang
Adam Zotkow