Chief Information Officer (2014-2017), Goldman Sachs
R. Martin (“Marty”) Chavez is widely renowned as a trailblazer and leader who revolutionized the way that capital moves and works on Wall Street. Most recently, Marty served in a variety of senior roles at Goldman Sachs, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and global co-head of the firm’s Securities Division. Marty was also a partner and member of the Goldman Sachs management committee.
Marty has achieved singular acclaim in the financial-services industry for his work on SecDB, an early platform that transformed the trading business into a software business. Far from the stereotype of a banker, Marty is a disrupter at heart. He was among the most senior Latinos on Wall Street, as well as the most senior openly gay executive at Goldman Sachs.
Beyond finance, Marty serves on the Board of Overseers of Harvard University (appointed President for the 2020-2021 academic year), the Stanford Medicine Board of Fellows, the Advisory Council of the Stanford Center on Longevity, the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study, Paige.AI, Recursion, Sema4, Santander, and the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Marty also serves as a key advisor to Abacus, a San Francisco-based AI startup developing approaches to deep learning. Marty resides in New York City and the Berkshires, and is the proud father of two.