Lloyd Craig Blankfein is an American business executive. He is the CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He has been in this position since the May 31, 2006, nomination of former CEO Henry Paulson as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush.
Background
Blankfein was born on 20 September in 1954 in the Bronx borough of New York City to a Jewish family and reared in Brooklyn's Linden Houses, part of the New York City Housing Authority. His father was a clerk with the U.S. Postal Service branch in the Manhattan borough of New York City and his mother was a receptionist.
Education
Lloyd studied at Thomas Jefferson High School in 1971.
From 1971 to 1975 he studied at Harvard College. He became a Bachelor of Arts.
Since 1975 he studied at Harvard Law School at the Faculty of Law. In 1978 he received a degree of the Juris Doctor.
Career
As a boy, Lloyd worked as a concession vendor at Yankee Stadium. Blankfein worked as a corporate tax lawyer for the law firm Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine. In 1981, he joined Goldman's commodities trading arm, J. Aron & Co.as a precious metals salesman in its London office.
He is the Gala Chairman of the Rockefeller family's Asia Society in New York. He serves on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organization seeking to alleviate poverty in New York, as well as on the Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell Medical College.
Works
Chairman
Goldman Sachs
Connections
Lloyd married to Laura Jacobs Blankfein since 1983.