Awards & Recognition
★BYU Marriott 2023 International Executive of the Year Award
★Goldman Sachs Board of Directors appointment (February 2025)
★Public Service Star from Singapore Deputy PM (2025)
★Fortune 25 Most Powerful Rising Executives ranking (2025)
Notable Facts
→President and chief operating officer and a member of the Board of Directors of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
→Waldron joined Goldman in 2000 in investment banking services and climbed to co-lead the lender's investment-banking unit before being named COO in 2018
→In February 2025, he was elevated to Goldman Sachs' board, a rare step for a non-CEO executive.
→John is chair of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council, a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of International Finance, a member of the International Advisory Council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission
→The bank gave him and Solomon each an $80 million retention bonus in January that won't vest until 2030.
→He'd had been considering leaving Goldman to work for Apollo and Apollo was offering Waldron as much $500m to move according to people in a position to know.
→John graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College with a BA in English in 1992.
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