FortuneMorgan Chittum
John Waldron is ‘one of the most non-Wall Street people’ you’ve met—but he’s in line to be the next CEO of Goldman Sachs
Mike Mayo, who leads large-cap bank research atWells Fargo, says John Waldron gives off the affect of an English Lit professor from the Midwest.
“What I find interesting about John Waldron is he just presents as one of the most non-Wall Street people that I’ve met, even though he heads the epitome of a Wall Street firm,” observed Mayo. He added, in reference to the bank’s current CEO, that in some ways one could describe Waldron as the “anti-David Solomon.”
But even if Waldron’s disposition does not give off Master of the Universe vibes, his resumé certainly does.
Like Solomon, Waldron also worked at Bear Stearns early in his career. He later moved to Goldman, where he has spent more than two decades working alongside Solomon to lead…
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