Tuesday 22 January 2008

Goldman Sachs managing directors: how many of them are financial shamans or money mystics?

Goldman Sachs is probably the greatest investment bank in the world - and maybe the universe. It employs over 1700 managing directors, but how many of them are bona fide financial shamans or money mystics? I have compiled a list of 300 Goldman managing directors. Quite a few of these people I know very well, and I know they are shamans or mystics. Some of it is pure guesswork. For example, I have never heard of Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, but if he's not a financial shaman, then who is? I mean, with a name like that, come on!

I showed this list to Arthur Simmons. Unfortunately, he would not tell me if he had trained any of these people. He has been so secretive lately. What's his problem?

Well, anyway, here's the list. Apologies to any shamans or mystics I've left off the list, and apologies to anyone on the list who is not a shaman or mystic. But I bet you wish you were one, eh?

Howard A. Silverstein, Thomas E. Tuft, Frank L. Coulson Jr, Joseph H. Gleberman, Timothy J. O'Neill, John J. Powers, Gregory K. Palm, Gene T. Sykes, Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Henry Cornell, Francis J. Ingrassia, Robert Litterman, Richard G. Sherlund, Matthew C. Westerman, Byron D. Trott, Milton R. Berlinski, Jean-Luc Biamonti, Thomas C. Brasco, Peter D. Brundage, Abby Joseph Cohen, Randolph L. Cowen, Philip M. Darivoff, Glenn P. Earle, C. Douglas Fuge, Gwen R. Libstag, Victor M. Lopez-Balboa, Sanjeev K. Mehra, Stuart M. Rothenberg, Muneer A. Satter, Theodore T. Sotir, Marc A. Spilker, Mark R. Tercek, Susan A. Willetts, Philippe J. Altuzarra, Charles W.A. Bott, Steven M. Bunson, George H. Butcher III, Alexander C. Dibelius, Karlo J. Duvnjak, Isabelle Ealet, Elizabeth C. Fascitelli, Celeste A. Guth, Gregory T. Hoogkamp, Josephine Linden, Antigone Loudiadis, David J. Mastrocola, Charlotte P. Ransom, Kaysie P. Uniacke, Haruko Watanuki, Paolo Zannoni, Yoel Zaoui, Frances R. Bermanzohn, Richard M. Campbell-Breeden, Anthony H. Carpet, Kent A. Clark, Daniel A. Sharfman, Jana Hale Doty, Dioscoro-Roy I. Ramos, Jacob D. Rosengarten, Steven M. Scopellite, Edward M. Siskind, Tetsufumi Yamakawa, David J. Greenwald, Michael G. De Lathauwer, Martin R. Devenish, Toni-Dara Infante, Raymond J. Iwanowski, David K. Kaugher, Ellen R. Porges, Pablo J. Salame, Shahriar Tadjbakhsh, Donald J. Truesdale, Jason H. Ekaireb, Antonio Borges, Seaborn S. Eastland, Elizabeth E. Beshel, Amy L. Chasen, W. Reed Chisholm II, Jean A. De Pourtales, Earl S. Enzer, Robert K. Frumkes, Robert R. Gheewalla, Pedro Gonzalez Grau, Kenneth W. Hitchner, Andrew R. Jessop, Carsten Kengeter, George C. Liberopoulos, James R. Paradise, Richard J. Sussman, Caspar W. Von Koskull, Gary J. Sveva, Harry Silver, Ignacio Alvarez-Rendueles, Larry J. Goodwin, David J. Grounsell, Melina E. Higgins, Jill E. Lohrfink, Bernard A. Mensah, Gavin G. O'Connor, Anthony J. Principato, Thomas S. Riggs III, Jeffrey S. Sloan, David D. Wildermuth, William M. Wicker, Philip S. Hylander, Stacy Bash-Polley, Driss Ben-Brahim, Thomas V. Cholnoky, Bradley S. DeFoor, Pierre-Henri Flamand, Michael J. Grimaldi, J. Christopher A. Kojima, Simon M. Lamb, Terence Tayseop Lim, Paula B. Madoff, Puneet Malhi, Milton R. Millman, Steven M. Pinkos, Kirk L. Rimer, Guy C. Slimmon, Richard J. Stingi, Robin A. Vince, Howard Q. Spooner, Sanaz Zaimi, Olusegun O. Aganga, Anton J. Arriola, John W. Cembrook, William J. Conley Jr, Thomas W. Cornacchia, Francois-Xavier de Mallmann, L. Brooks Entwistle, Mark B. Florian, J. Douglas Kramer, Thomas H. Mattox, Peter C. Oppenheimer, Peter D. Selman, Heather K. Shemilt, Thomas D. Teles, Greg A. Tusar, Helena Koo, Peter F. Spies, Stefan R. Bollinger, Fareed T. Ali, Dolores S. Bamford, Christoph M. Brand, David C. Carlebach, Ahmad B. Deek, Wolfgang Fink, David L. Jasper, Christopher M. Keogh, Peter Kimpel, Gregory Kuppenheimer, Linda A. LaGorga, Christopher D. McFadden, Cheri S. Mowrey Davison, Bryant C. Park, Bruce B. Petersen, Cameron P. Poetzscher, Buckley T. Ratchford, Robert W. Savage, Lewis M. Segal, Ying Ying Glenda So, Robert J. Sweeney, Terrence P. Travis, Alan S. Waxman, Dominic A. Wilson, Court E. Golumbic, Douglas Borden, Kent D. Daniel, Fenglei Fang, Nancy Gloor, Farid Pasha, Marc O. Boheim, Ralane F. Bonn, Torrey J. Browder, Charles E. Burrows, Stuart A. Cash, Albert F. Dombrowski, Daniel A. Dreyfus, Henrik G. Ehrnrooth, Stephan J. Feldgoise, Benjamin W. Ferguson, Ivan C. Gallegos Rivas, Basil P. Geoghegan, Christoph Gugelmann, John D. Haase, David R. Mittelbusher, Rebecca M. Shaghalian, Barry Sklar, Jeffrey E. Sockwell, Mark R. Sorrell, Cory W. Thackeray, David G. Torrible, Suzette M. Unger, Lai Kun Judy Vas Chau, Oliver C. Will, Kenneth N. Murphy, Krishnamurthy Sudarshan, Maziar Minovi, Todd E. Eagle, Robin Rousseau, Stefan Dorfmeister, James H. Sprayregan, Michael Rimland, Jeff Abt, Dojin Kim, Vesna Nevistic, Rene Mottas, Elif A. Aktug, Koral Anderson, Kulbir S. Arora, Gerard M. Beatty, Shane M. Bolton, Stephen Branton-Speak, Benjamin R. Broadbent, Richard J. Butland, Kasper E. Christoffersen, Juan D. Gomez-Villalba, Dylan S. Halterlein, Harold P. Hope III, Christian Kames, Andrew J. Kleeger, Ravi G. Krishnan, Leland Lim, Fabio N. Mariani, Shogo Matsuzawa, Patrick S. McClymont, Scott R. Norby, Graham H. Officer, Gerald B. Ouderkirk III, Barend M. Pennings, Curtis S. Probst, Kara Saxon, Justin W. Slatky, Radford Small, Raghu Srinivasan, Kevin M. Sterling, Robert M. Suss, J. Richard Suth, Oliver Thym, Michael S. Turok, Fred Waldman, Iain N. Drayton, Gregg J. Felton, Drake Pike, Douglas R. Manchester, William L. Blais, William F. Spoor, Peter Scaturro, Robert M. Pulford, Maximillian C. Justicz, Kenneth J. Newcombe, Timothy J. Talkington, Robert Son, Steven Tulip, Serge Marquie, Quentin Andre, George Assaly, Michael H. Bartsch, Lawrence S. Brandman, Francesco Cafagna, Jimmy R. Carlberg, Westley D. Chapman, Charles J. Citro, John G. Creaton, Cecile Crochu, Andrew K. Davilman, Babak Eftekhari, Jonathan H. Fine, Ramani Ganesh, Richard C. Govers, Arni G. Hauksson, Steven P. Herrup, Brian J. Jacoby, Dominique M. Jooris, William P. Keirstead, Satoshi Kubo, Shane M. Lanoway, Edward T. Lees, Philip G.W. Lindop, Michael W. Linse, Rory A. MacFarquhar, Christoffer L. Malmer, Matthew D. McAskin, Francesco Mele, Xavier C. Menguy, Jason Moo, Edward S. Pallesen, Richard A. Peacock, James F. Powell, Padideh N. Raphael, Douglas L. Sacks, Luke A. Sarsfield III, James Roger Francis Shipton, Anna K. Skoglund, Ronny Soemitro, Aurora J. Swithenbank, Carl H. Taniguchi, Robert B. Thompson, Kenneth A. Topping.