Ashok Varadhan
American financial executive From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ashok Varadhan (born 1971 or 1972[1]) is the head of the securities division at Goldman Sachs.[2] He has been co-head of the division since 2014.[3]
Biography
He became a partner at Goldman Sachs at age 29 – one of the youngest ever – after joining the firm as an associate only four years earlier.[2][4] He briefly worked at Merrill Lynch after graduating from Duke University with a major in mathematics and economics.[4][5] In the 2000s, his derivatives-trading desk earned billions of dollars for the firm.[4] In 2015 he was transferred from New York to the London office (a typical move for Goldman Sachs executives slated for senior leadership).[1] He was briefly sole head of the securities division in 2018, during a leadership reshuffle.[3] He is considered a protégé of former CEO Lloyd Blankfein.[4]
He has lived in New York City for most of his life.[4] He is the son of mathematician S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan,[4] and has three children.[6]
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