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Considering that some 11,000 of Goldman Sachs Group’s 36,500 employees are engineers, “we think of technology as an essential driver of innovation in all our businesses,” says chief information officer R. Martin Chavez. “Against the ever-evolving market structure backdrop, our ability to innovate and provide a range of execution alternatives is essential for our clients, who increasingly depend on our ability to integrate market expertise with automation across products.” Priorities and opportunities center on automating services and deepening client relationships, he says, pointing to the Marquee Studio and SIMON (Structured Investment Marketplace and Online Network) apps as examples. The former consists of portfolio and risk analytics tools for internal and external clients; the latter includes education, investment customization and performance analysis tools for financial advisers. “Large financial service firms have generally trailed the tech sector in adopting open APIs [application programming interfaces], so our leadership in that area is exciting,” Chavez says. This year the firm consolidated e-trading assets and trading businesses in a systematic market-making group, says the 52-year-old, who became a Goldman partner in 2006 and CIO in 2013 after serving as global co-COO of equities. A senior-level digital strategies group was formed to coordinate technology initiatives across the securities division. With the acquisition in April of General Electric Co.’s GE Capital Bank and its $16 billion in online deposits, now part of Goldman Sachs Bank USA, the venerable Wall Street firm is in uncharted consumer lending territory. “We’ve learned so many lessons from building our existing businesses, but we have immense humility for what we don’t know, having never built a retail business organically at the firm,” Chavez explains. “In many regards, we are a start-up with 147 years of experience.” A Stanford University Ph.D in medical information sciences who also earned a master’s in computer science from Harvard University, Chavez has done two stints with Goldman Sachs, initially in the J. Aron & Co. currency and commodities division from 1993 to 1997. Before returning in 2005, he served as global head of energy derivatives for Credit Suisse Financial Products and CEO of risk management systems company Kiodex.

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The 2016 Tech 50

1. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. 2. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange 3. Lance Uggla Markit The Rise of Oil Options: Why More Traders Are Getting Involved Sponsored by CME Group May 19, 2025 4. Phupinder Gill CME Group 5. Shawn Edwards and Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg 6. R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group

7. Robert Goldstein BlackRock 8. Adena Friedman Nasdaq 9. Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures 10. Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings 11. Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments 12. David Craig Thomson Reuters

13. Michael Spencer ICAP 14. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. 15. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing 16. Chris Concannon BATS Global Markets 17. Blythe Masters Digital Asset Holdings 18. David Rutter R3CEV

19. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw & Co. 20. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets 21. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings 22. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings 23. Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp. 24. Brad Katsuyama IEX Group

25. Antoine Shagoury State Street Corp. 26. David Gledhill DBS Bank 27. Lou Eccleston TMX Group 28. Andreas Preuss Deutsche BÖrse 29. Dan Schulman PayPal Holdings 30. Scott Dillon Wells Fargo & Co.

31. Mike Chinn S&P Global Market Intelligence 32. Craig Donohue Options Clearing Corp. 33. Gary Norcross Fidelity National Information Services 34. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix 35. Sebastián Ceria Axioma 36. Michael Cooper BT Radianz

37. Tyler Kim MaplesFS 38. Neal Pawar AQR Capital Management 39. David Harding Winton Capital Management 40. Chris Corrado London Stock Exchange Group 41. Brian Conlon First Derivatives 42. Jim Minnick eVestment

43. Stephane Dubois Xignite 44. Mazy Dar OpenFin 45. Yasuki Okai NRI Holdings America 46. Kim Fournais Saxo Bank 47. Jock Percy Perseus 48. Robert Schifellite Broadridge Financial Solutions

49. Brian Sentance Xenomorph Software 50. Pieter van der Does Adyen