John Waldron

John Waldron is the President and Chief Operating Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group. He is a member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee and Chair of the Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee and Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee. Prior to his current role, Waldron was Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division. Before that, he was Global Head of Investment Banking Services and Client Coverage for IBD, responsible for overseeing the IBS leadership group, a group he founded in 2010. Earlier in his career, he also held the roles of Global Co-Head of the Financial Sponsors Group, Co-Head of Leveraged Finance and Co-Head of the Media and Entertainment Group in IBD. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 and was named Managing Director in 2001 and Partner in 2002.