Lloyd Blankfein | |
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Born |
New York City, New York, U.S. |
September 15, 1954
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation |
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Years active | 1982 - present |
Net worth | US$1.1 billion (July 2015) |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Laura Jacobs (m. 1983) |
Children | Alex Jonathan Rachel |
Lloyd Craig Blankfein (born September 15, 1954) is an American business executive. He is the CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He assumed this position upon nomination of former CEO Henry Paulson to United States Secretary of the Treasury.
Lloyd Blankfein was born in the Bronx borough of New York City, to a Jewish family, and reared in the Linden Houses, a New York City Housing Authority project in the East New York section of Brooklyn. His father, Seymour Blankfein, was a clerk with the U.S. Postal Service branch in the Manhattan borough of New York City and his mother was a receptionist. As a boy, he worked as a concession vendor at Yankee Stadium. He received primary and secondary education in the public schools of the New York City Department of Education, and was the valedictorian at Thomas Jefferson High School in 1971. He attended Harvard College, where he lived in Winthrop House, majored in History and earned his A.B. in 1975. In 1978, Blankfein received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.