Goldman Sachs just announced seven new power players it’s vaulting to its most powerful echelon — and the fact that they all sit in the same division tells you something about where the bank is headed.
The firm’s management committee — currently 41 members — is adding seven seats for partners the bank appointed on Monday. All sit within the asset and wealth management business, which holds $3.6 trillion in assets, offering a snapshot about who’s gaining influence at the highest levels of 200 West Street.
The executives run businesses spanning private credit, public investing, alternatives, and wealth management.
“The opportunity to continue to grow our franchise across AWM is a core strategic objective for the firm, and this group of leaders will help us advance our goals,” CEO David Solomon said in an accompanying statement.
The management committee is Goldman’s most senior governing body, responsible for overseeing strategy, capital allocation, and top leadership decisions. Its members still meet weekly to set the bank’s agenda.
Two longtime leaders are stepping down from the committee, the bank said — Vice Chairman Richard Gnodde and Asset Management Chairman Rich Friedman — bringing the new tally to 46 people who collectively steer the firm.
The new management committee members are:
- James Reynolds, global cohead of private credit at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International
- Vivek Bantwal, global cohead of private credit at GSAM
- Michael Brandmeyer, global head and chief investment officer of the External Investing Group at GSAM
- John Mallory, incoming global cohead of wealth management
- Kristin Olson, global head of alternatives for wealth
- Nishi Somaiya, incoming global cohead of wealth management
- Gregory Calnon, global cohead of public investing at GSAM
The leadership updates also mean new roles for Mallory and Somaiya — both partners, who have spent more than 25 years each at Goldman, are currently leaders in the private banking group. Now, they’ll assume the title of global co-heads of wealth management.
In its most recent earnings report, Goldman said private banking and lending revenue rose 16% in 2025, while assets under supervision across asset and wealth management climbed to a record $3.6 trillion, driven by management fees, lending activity, and client inflows.
Their appointments come as the bank steels itself for what it hopes will be a gangbuster year for business — maybe even rivaling storied 2021 levels.
But Goldman is also facing mounting competition from all corners of Wall Street — intensifying battles for clients and talent, and a more crowded market for private credit and wealth services.
Under Solomon’s tenure, Goldman has spent several years pursuing a broader effort to grow its asset and wealth management business, making it a more well-rounded institutional investor active across multiple asset classes.
In late 2022, the firm moved Marc Nachmann, a former senior investment banker, into the role of running the merged Asset & Wealth Management division, combining them under the same roof. Since then, Goldman has worked to operate the businesses as one integrated platform, spanning public investing, private markets, private credit, and private wealth. Over the past three years, the business’ collective assets under supervision have swelled more than $1 trillion from about $2.5 trillion at the end of 2022.
And the bank has pursued a multi-year effort to connect those businesses through its One Goldman Sachs initiative, designed to encourage cross-collaboration and -pollination of commercial opportunities between bankers and financial advisors who can share the same clients and maximize profits.
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