Goldman Sachs Announces New Members Of The Partnership Pool And New Managing Directors

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October 26, 2006 - The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) today announced that it has invited 115 individuals to join the firm's Partnership Pool, and 262 individuals to become Managing Directors, as of November 25, 2006, the start of the firm's fiscal year.

 

The Partnership Pool was established at the time of Goldman Sachs' public offering in May 1999 to maintain various core aspects of the firm's partnership culture among its leaders, including teamwork, client focus and a commitment to excellence. Goldman Sachs chooses new Managing Directors annually and new Partnership Pool members biennially.

"This is an outstanding group of leaders, who are helping drive the growth of the firm as we serve our clients in an ever increasing number of businesses around the world," said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

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We are pleased to announce that the following individuals have been invited to become Partners of the firm as of November 25, 2006, the start of our next fiscal year.

Mark E. Agne
Gregory A. Agran
David M. Atkinson
Elizabeth E. Beshel
Mark R. Beveridge
Leslie A. Biddle
Jan Boomaars
Jason M. Brown
Melissa R. Brown
Steven M. Bunson
Nicholas F. Burgin
Mary D. Byron
Jin Yong Cai
Valentino D. Carlotti
Lik Shuen David Chan
R. Martin Chavez
James B. Clark
Peter H. Comisar
William J. Conley Jr.
Colin J. Corgan
Jean A. De Pourtales
Giorgio De Santis
Katinka I. Domotorffy
Donald J. Duet
Jason H. Ekaireb
Peter C. Enns
James P. Esposito
Carl Faker
Douglas L. Feagin
Luca D. Ferrari
Mark B. Florian
Timothy B. Flynn
Elisabeth Fontenelli
Silverio Foresi
Colleen A. Foster
Orit P. Freedman
Matthew T. Fremont-Smith
James R. Garman
Kevin S. Gasvoda
Joseph H. Gleberman
Lorenzo Grabau
Michael J. Graziano
Kenneth L. Hirsch
Simon N. Holden
Alastair J. Hunt
Zubin P. Irani
Andrew J. Jonas
Andrew J. Kaiser
Richard A. Kimball Jr.
Koji Kotaka
J. Douglas Kramer
Jonathan A. Langer
Gregory D. Lee
Ronald Lee
Tim Leissner
Todd W. Leland
Allan S. Levine
Brian T. Levine
George C. Liberopoulos
Peter J. Lyon
Paula B. Madoff
Puneet Malhi
Simon I. Mansfield
Allan S. Marson
James A. McNamara
Bernard A. Mensah
Julian R. Metherell
Michael J. Millette
Timothy H. Moe
Thomas C. Morrow
Ken N. Murphy
Arjun N. Murti
Kenichi Nagasu
Gavin G. O'Connor
Peter C. Oppenheimer
Robert W. Pack
Konstantinos N. Pantazopoulos
Sheila H. Patel
Kenneth A. Pontarelli
Dioscoro-Roy I. Ramos
Krishna S. Rao
Buckley T. Ratchford
Sara E. Recktenwald
Gene Reilly
David M. Ryan
Ankur A. Sahu
Guy E. Saidenberg
Susan J. Scher
Clare R. Scherrer
John A. Sebastian
Peter D. Selman
David A. Shiffman
Kunihiko Shiohara
Theodore T. Sotir
Christoph W. Stanger
Laurence Stein
Chase O. Stevenson
Morgan C. Sze
Thomas D. Teles
Daisuke Toki
Peter K. Tomozawa
Lucas van Praag
Robin A. Vince
Alejandro Vollbrechthausen
Casper W. Von Koskull
Theodore T. Wang
Alan S. Waxman
Nicholas H. Weber
Martin M. Werner
Andrew F. Wilson
Samuel J. Wisnia
Andrew E. Wolff
Neil J. Wright
Shinichi Yokote
Sanaz Zaimi


We are pleased to announce that the following individuals have been invited to become Managing Directors as of November 25, 2006, the start of the firm's next fiscal year.

Fadi Abuali
Kevin L. Adams
Elif A. Aktug
Christian S. Alexander
David Z. Alter
Vincent L. Amatulli
Rajesh Amin
Koral Anderson
Stephen Arnold
Kulbir S. Arora
Omar M. Asali
Ramaz A. Ashurov
Paul E. Bachman
Andrew J. Bagley
Mustafa Bagriacik
Susan E. Balogh
Jennifer A. Barbetta
Ali K. Bastani
Gerard M. Beatty
Henry Becker Jr.
Roger S. Begelman
Oliver B. Benkert
Avanish R. Bhavsar
Joshua S. Birnbaum
Christopher E. Blume
Shane M. Bolton
Peter V. Bonanno
William C. Bousquette Jr.
Patrick T. Boyle
Stephen Branton-Speak
Simon A. Bregazzi
Emmanuel Bresson
Benjamin R. Broadbent
Janet A. Broeckel
William E. Burgess
Trevor R. Busche
Richard J. Butland
Jon Butler
Joseph A. Camarda
Roy E. Campbell II
John H. Chartres
Martin E. Chavez
Henry L. Chen
Hong Lum Julian Cheong
Alex S. Chi
Steven N. Cho
Han Ching Choong
Kasper E. Christoffersen
Gary W. Chropuvka
Teresa H. Clarke
Jesse H. Cole
Brian M. Coleman
Cyril Cottu
Timothy Craighead
Joshua C. Critchley
Vijay B. Culas
Giovanni Cutaia
Kyle R. Czepiel
Manda J. D'Agata
Sven Dahlmeyer
John F. Daly
Rajeev R. Das
Michael J. Daum
Alexander Davidovich
Nicola A. Davies
Philip J. Davies
Thomas H. de Garidel-Thoron
Tracy DeBlieck
Craig M. Delizia
Stacey Ann DeMatteis
Michael Dinias
Christina Drews
Vance M. Duigan
Steven T. Elia
Harry Eliades
Frank Ertinger
Suzanne Escousse
Steven A. Ferjentsik
Carlos Fernandez-Aller
Gregory C. Ferrero
Jonathan D. Fiorello
Marc L. Flamino
Sarah J. Friar
David A. Friedland
John J. Gauthier
Elizabeth Gilbert
Masaki Gobayashi
John H. Godfrey
Irwin Goldberg
Billy Goldstein
Juan D. Gomez-Villalba
Maria V. Gordon
Roberta M. Goss
Paul Graves
Philip W. Grovit
Jonathan J. Hall
Dylan S. Halterlein
Greger C. Hamilton
Magnus C. Hardeberg
Norman A. Hardie
Kandace K. Heck
Ali G. Hedayat
Joanna Dziubak Hislop
Ryan H. Holsheimer
Harold P. Hope III
Gregory P. Hopper
Joanne Howard
Alison J. Howe
Ming Yunn Stephanie Hui
Paul Humphreys
Irfan S. Hussain
Kota Igarashi
Tsuyoshi Inoue
Katsuhiro Ishikawa
Makoto Ito
Kathleen Jack
Matthew A. Jaume
Tanweer Kabir
Christian Kames
Raymond W. Kamrath
Afwa D. Kandawire
Nicola S. Kane
Henry Wen-Herng King
Andrew J. Kleeger
Herman R. Klein Wassink
Edward C. Knight
Akiko Koda
Ravi G. Krishnan
Jorg H. Kukies
Shiv Kumar
Svetlana Kurilova
Edwin Wing-Tang Kwok
David W. Lang
Matthew P. Lanstone
Nyron Z. Latif
Wai-Yen Vivian Lau
Matthew D. Leavitt
David A. Lehman
Ericka Leslie
James E. Levine
Leland Lim
Alexander G. Loosley
David B. Ludwig
John H. Ma
Aedan M. MacGreevy
Raghav Maliah
Matthew F. Mallgrave
Edith Mandel
Karim H. Manji
Igor D. Mansour
Scott D. Marchakitus
Fabio N. Mariani
Ramnek S. Matharu
Shogo Matsuzawa
Thomas C. Mazarakis
Patrick S. McClymont
Graeme E. McEvoy
John E. McGarry
Shane McKenna
Penny A. McSpadden
Celine-Marie G. Mechain
Justin E. Metz
Takashi Mikkaichi
Simon H. Moseley
William E. Muecke
Jeff Mullen
Yoshie Kitagawa Naumann
Edward T. Naylor
Scott R. Norby
Graham H. Officer
Hideyuki Fred Omokawa
Maire M. O'Neill
Lisa Opoku
Peter L. Ostrem
Gerald B. Ouderkirk III
Martin C. Pankau
Nicholas T. Pappas
Charles L. Park
Jae Hyuk Park
Francesco Pascuzzi
Barend M. Pennings
Zara Pratley
Curtis S. Probst
Lisa Rabbe
Jeffrey Rabinowitz
Ante Razmilovic
Lawrence J. Restieri Jr.
Lloyd S. Reynolds
Samuel D. Robinson
Philippa A. Rogers
Michael E. Ronen
Adam C. Rosenberg
Wendy E. Sacks
Ricardo Salaman
Thierry Sancier
David J. Santina
Kara Saxon
Ian M. Schmidek
Paul E. Schurman
Steven M. Schwartz
Stephen B. Scobie
Devesh P. Shah
Judith L. Shandling
Adrianne W. Shapira
Graham P. Shaw
Hazem A. Shawki
Steven R. Sher
Justin W. Slatky
J. Radford Small
Ian G. Smith
Ramsey D. Smith
Robert A. Sorrell
Raghu Srinivasan
Kevin M. Sterling
Robert M. Suss
J. Richard Suth
Yusuke Takahashi
Daiki Takayama
Tin Hsien Tan
Renaud Tartanson
Megan M. Taylor
Richard J. Taylor
Maria Teresa Tejada
Siew Hua Thio
Timothy H. Thornton
Oliver Thym
Ingrid C. Tierens
Nadia Titarchuk
Joseph K. Todd
Mark R. Tolette
Hiroyuki Tomokiyo
Jill L. Toporek
David Townshend
Patrick M. Tribolet
Richard J. Tufft
Michael S. Turok
Klaus Umek
Toshihiko Umetani
John P. Underwood
Thomas S. Vandever
Richard C. Vanecek
Sebastian Varga von Kibed
Massimiliano Veneziani
Kurt J. Von Holzhausen
Nicholas H. von Moltke
Daniel Wainstein
Timothy D. Walding
Fred Waldman
Kevin A. Walker
Daniel S. Weiner
Stefan Weiser
Owen O. West
Alan S. Wilmit
David T. Wilson
Edward C. Wilson
Donna A. Winston
Carinne S. Withey
Christopher D. Woolley
M. Brendan Wootten
David Tien-Wei Wu
John M. Yae
Haitao Zhai