Former Amazon Exec Marco Argenti Drives A Remarkable Digital Transformation At Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs has historically thought about the technology function within the company a bit differently than most. This has been reflected in the choices of chief information officers that the company has chosen, which have included Martin Chavez, who held a PhD in Medical Information Sciences and would go on to become the chief financial officer of the company as well as George Lee, who was a Partner and Co-Head of Global Technology, Media and Telecom Banking prior to become CIO. He is currently the Co-Head of Applied Innovation at the company. The incumbent is Marco Argenti, who joined the firm as a Partner as well as CIO in 2019. He joined the company after spending six years as a Vice President of Technology at Amazon. One might think that trading in a plum role at perhaps the world’s premier technology company for an institution that was founded in 1869 might not seem like the obvious choice, despite Goldman’s prestigious brand, but Argenti notes that his only worry was that his new employer might be too successful to embrace change. “That was my biggest worry coming in: I’m not going in for a turnaround because Goldman Sachs is extremely […]

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