Goldman Sachs Announces New Managing Directors

NEW YORK, October 24, 2007 -- The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has invited 299 individuals to become Managing Directors as of December 1, 2007, the start of the firm's fiscal year.

 

"We congratulate our new Managing Directors, whose leadership will continue to drive our success across the firm's businesses and in those markets in which we operate around the world," said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

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We are pleased to announce that the following individuals have been invited to become Managing Directors as of December 1, 2007, the start of the firm's next fiscal year.

Markus L. Aakko
Yotaro Agari
Julian C. Allen
Joanne L. Alma
Nicholas Alston
Quentin Andre
Alexandra J. Anido
Sergei Arsenyev
Aaron M. Arth
George Assaly
Arun J. Assumall
Victoria J. Attwood Scott
Jean-Baptiste Aussourd
Ian T. Bailey
Vivek J. Bantwal
Michael H. Bartsch
Philip G. Beatty
Caroline R. Benton
Philip R. Berlinski
Neeti Bhalla
Brian W. Bolster
Timothy J. Bowler
Sharon A. Bradley
Lawrence S. Brandman
C. Kane Brenan
Kristin L. Breuss
Michael J. Buchanan
Donna Burns
Stephen P. Byrne Jr.
Roberto Caccia
Francesco Cafagna
Michael A. Cagnassola
Alfredo A. Capote
Christian H. Carl
Jimmy R. Carlberg
Glen T. Casey
Chia-Lin Chang
Christian Channell
Westley D. Chapman
Eva Chau
Yves Checoury
David Chou
Thalia Chryssikou
Charles J. Citro
Michael J. Civitella
Luke E. Clayton
Ira H. Cohen
Remi Colinmaire
Kathleen A. Connolly
John G. Creaton
Cecile Crochu
Gavin S. Da Cunha
Lauren Dang
Anne Marie B. Darling
Paul S. Davies
Andrew K. Davilman
Bruno P. De Kegel
Matthew P. DeFusco
Daniel Deng
Thomas Deng
Jeffrey L. Dodge
Jonathan G. Donne
William P. Douglas
Andrew J. Duke
Mary L. Dupay
Alessandro Dusi
Mark S. Edwards
Babak Eftekhari
Jonathan M. Egol
Akishige Eguchi
Halil Emecen
Andre Eriksson
Kazunobu Ezawa
Thomas D. Ferguson
David P. Ferris
Jonathan H. Fine
David A. Fox
Karen A. Frank
Jay A. Friedman
Timothy Gallagher
Maria Paola Garbarino
Huntley Garriott
Belinda S. Gaynor
Maksim Gelfer
Gabe E. Gelman
Jean-Christophe Germani
Donald G. Gervais Jr.
Tamilla F. Ghodsi
Brad D. Gillman
Federico J. Gilly
Marc C. Gilly
John L. Glover III
David J. Goldburg
Melissa Goldman
Edward J. Goldthorpe
Mark R. Gordon
Richard C. Govers
Bennett Grau
Bradley J. Gross
Franz A. Hall
Patrick P. Hargreaves
Arni G. Hauksson
Vicky M. Hayes
Michael L. Hensch
Steven P. Herrup
Ning Hong
Douglas Horlick
Pierre Hudry
Jonathan O. Hughes
Yuji Ito
Brian J. Jacoby
Andrius Jankunas
Dominique M. Jooris
Rajiv K. Kamilla
Brian A. Kane
Hun Sok Kang
Amna Karim
Vijay M. Karnani
Noriko Kawamura
Dirk-Jan J. Keijer
William P. Keirstead
Shuya Kekke
Prashant R. Khemka
Vivien Khoo
Tammy A. Kiely
Jisuk Kim
Lee Guan Kelvin Koh
Masafumi Koike
Tsui-Li Kok
Qing Ying Kong
Vanessa L. Koo
Satoshi Kubo
Lewis S. Kunkel
Shane M. Lanoway
Jan K. Laubjerg
Eddie Siu Wah Law
Edward J. Lawrence
Kim M. Lazaroo
Scott L. Lebovitz
Geoffery Y.A. Lee
Edward T. Lees
David A. Levy
Xiang Li
Jie Lian
Hong Liang
Dirk L. Lievens
Dimitri Linde
Philip G.W. Lindop
Michael W. Linse
David B. Lischer
Stephen I. Lucas
Patrick O. Luthi
Rory A. MacFarquhar
Whitney C. Magruder
Suneil Mahindru
Christoffer L. Malmer
Monica M. Mandelli
Richard M. Manley
Nicole Martin
Joseph S. Mauro
Matthew D. McAskin
Matthew B. McClure
Christina M. McFarland
Carolyn E. McGuire
Grainne McNamara
Joseph J. McNeila
Sandeep Mehta
Francesco Mele
Jack Mendelson
Xavier C. Menguy
Lance M. Meyerowich
Rodney B. Miller
Jason Moo
Karim Moussalem
Grant R. Moyer
Gersoni A. Munhoz
Michael Nachmani
Kazuya Nagasawa
Kazuma Naito
Rishi Nangalia
Allison F. Nathan
Dario Negri
Emmanuel P. Niogret
Chris Oberoi
Dimitri Offengenden
Jun Ohama
Gregory G. Olafson
Beverly L. O'Toole
Daniel A. Ottensoser
Edward S. Pallesen
Yanis Papagiannis
Dave S. Park
Anthony W. Pasquariello
Jignesh Patel
Sandeep H. Patel
Nirubhan Pathmanabhan
Mark A. Patterson
Richard A. Peacock
Vincent Shen Peng
Antonio R. Pereira
Peter J. Perrone
James R. Peters
Marco Piccioni
James F. Powell
Luis Puchol-Plaza
Sumit Rajpal
Ganesh Ramani
Padideh N. Raphael
Peggy D. Rawitt
Kathleen M. Redgate
Donald C. Reed
Mark G. Retik
James H. Reynolds
Sean D. Rice
Robert E. Ritchie
Scott M. Rofey
Jeroen Rombouts
Brice M. Rosenzweig
Denis R. Roux
Noah C. Roy
Chiel Ruiter
John M. Ruth
Douglas L. Sacks
Vikram P. Sahu
Yann Samuelides
Laura D. Sanchez
Sunil Sanghai
Luke A. Sarsfield III
Andrei M. Saunders
Richard A. Schafrann
Oliver Schiller
Martin A. Schneider
Gabriel T. Schwartz
Michael T. Seigne
Konstantin A. Shakhnovich
Richard Shannon
Wenbo Shao
Daniel A. Sharfman
Song Shen
Jonathan M. Sheridan
James Roger Francis Shipton
Faryar Shirzad
Connie Shoemaker
Anna K. Skoglund
Andrew J. Smith
Courtney B. Smith
Ronny Soemitro
Bing Song
Jonathan E. H. Sorrell
Bertram N. Spence
Ken Sugimoto
James Kin Kong Sun
Steve Sun
Aurora J. Swithenbank
Hidekazu Tani
Carl H. Taniguchi
Sulian M. Tay
Mark J. Taylor
Ryan J. Thall
Robert B. Thompson
Terence Ting
Jacquelyn G. Titus
Mark C. Toomey
Kenneth A. Topping
Pamela C. Torres
Ronald Trichon Jr.
Kenro Tsutsumi
Stellar K. Tucker
Peter van der Goes Jr.
Damien R. Vanderwilt
Ram S. Venkateswaran
Vincenzo Volpe
Gerard N. Von Dohlen Jr.
Christoph von Reiche
Elizabeth S. Wahab
Sherif J. Wahba
John M. Wang
Zhixue Josh Wang
Michael L. Warren
Haruko Watanabe
Russell J. Watson
Simon R. Watson
Douglas C. Weaver
Vivien Webb Wong
Peter A. Weidman
Karl D. Wianecki
Rory L. Wilfork
Gavin A. Wills
Steven D. Winegar
Kenneth Hong Kit Wong
Stephen T. C. Wong
Xin Xia
Shunichi Yamada
Kentaro Yamagishi
Raymond L. Yin
Ka Yan Wilfred Yiu
Hisaaki Yokoo
Hsin Yue Yong
Sergei Zhiltsov