Sheara Fredman is Chief Accounting Officer and the firm's Controller, responsible for the oversight of external and internal reporting, product control and regulatory capital. She is Co-Chair of the Firmwide New Activity Committee and the Firmwide Stress Test Committee, and a member of the Management Committee, Partnership Committee, Firmwide Capital Committee, Firmwide Asset Liability Committee and Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses Committee. Ms. Fredman is also a firmwide champion for Launch With GS, Goldman Sachs’ $1 billion commitment to invest in companies and investment managers with diverse leadership.

Previously, Ms. Fredman was Head of Regulatory Controllers, with responsibility for the teams that prepare internal and external regulatory information. She also was responsible for the Funding Controllers team, which supports Corporate Treasury. Before that, Ms. Fredman served as Global Product Controller, managing the controllers responsible for supporting the Securities Division. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2002 as an associate and was named Managing Director in 2008 and Partner in 2012.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Fredman worked as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York, specializing in capital markets clients.