LLOYD C. BLANKFEIN
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Lloyd is chief executive officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and chairman of the Board of Directors. He joined Goldman Sachs’ J. Aron Currency and Commodities Division in 1982 after working as an attorney in a law firm. Lloyd became a partner in 1988 and was named co-head of the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division as of its formation in 1997 and was based in London in 1998 and 1999 in that capacity.

Lloyd served as vice chairman of Goldman Sachs from 2002 through 2003, with management responsibility for the Equities and Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Divisions. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, he served as the firm’s president and chief operating officer from December 2003 through June 2006.

Lloyd received a JD from Harvard Law School in 1978 and an AB from Harvard College in 1975.

Among his affiliations with nonprofit organizations, Lloyd is a member of the Harvard University Committee on University Resources, a member of the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, an overseer of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, a director of the Partnership for New York City and a director of The Robin Hood Foundation. He resides in New York City with his wife, Laura, and their three children.