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R. Martin Chavez
Chief Information Officer
Goldman Sachs Group
Last year: 10
When R. Martin Chavez was promoted from COO of equities to chief information officer of Goldman Sachs Group in September 2013, the role was expanded to include oversight of the company’s engineers — one third of the New York–based firm’s 34,000 employees, who work with 1.5 billion lines of software code — along with a seat on the management committee and an opportunity to think big about externalization of the firm’s technology. “We’re not delivering a portal or a terminal; we’re giving you apps,” the 51-year-old explains. The opening up of Goldman’s digital platforms started over the past year in the securities division, including equity and foreign exchange, and has moved into investment banking, corporate finance and other areas. “I’d be hard-pressed to think of any business in the company that isn’t engaged, at some level, in the process of externalizing our platforms to clients,” Chavez says. Meanwhile, he and his team are looking at the leading edge of artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning and pattern recognition systems. “Applying good pattern matching and statistics is going to have a big impact on all aspects of our business,” predicts Chavez, who has a bachelor’s in biochemistry and a master’s in computer science from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in medical information sciences from Stanford University. Chavez is on his second tour at Goldman, having served as a senior energy strategist in the 1990s. Before that he co-founded a San Francisco start-up, Quorum Software Systems, and later he was CEO of Kiodex, a New York risk management systems company that SunGard Data Systems acquired in 2004.
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The 2015 Tech 50
1. Jeffrey Sprecher 2. Catherine Bessant 3. Phupinder Gill 4. Lance Uggla 5. Robert Goldstein |
6. Shawn Edwards & 7. R. Martin Chavez 8. Deborah Hopkins 9. Stephen Neff 10. Adena Friedman |
11. David Craig 12. Daniel Coleman 13. Michael Spencer 14. Michael Bodson 15. Charles Li |
16. Chris Concannon 17. Christopher Perretta 18. Antoine Shagoury 19. Kevin Rhein 20. Neil Katz |
21. Lee Olesky 22. Richard McVey 23. Seth Merrin 24. Robert Alexander 25. Frank Bisignano |
26. John Marcante 27. Joseph Squeri 28. Lou Eccleston 29. Claude Honegger 30. Chris Corrado |
31. David Gledhill 32. John Bates 33. Michael Cooper 34. Gary Scholten 35. Sunil Hirani |
36. Hauke Stars 37. Brian Conlon 38. Jim Minnick 39. Lars Seier Christensen & Kim Fournais 40. Tyler Kim |
41. Jim McGuire 42. Steven O’Hanlon 43. Sebastián Ceria 44. Yasuki Okai 45. Stephane Dubois |
46. Mazy Dar 47. Brian Sentance 48. Mas Nakachi 49. John Lehner 50. Jock Percy |
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