After nearly 28 years with the investment bank, Chris Kojima, a senior executive in the asset and wealth management division of Goldman Sachs (GS.N), will go at year’s end, according to an internal document seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
Kojima shares leadership of Goldman’s client solutions division, which handles pensions and institutions’ sales and client service. Early in 2024, he will join General Atlantic, according to two persons who know the situation. According to its website, GA oversees $77 billion in assets and invests in high-growth companies.
Managing $2.7 trillion in assets, Goldman’s asset and wealth management group has recently lost several high-profile executives, including Kojima. Asset and wealth management’s previous chief investment officer, Julian Salisbury, departed to join investment company Sixth Street earlier this year.
Mike Koester, who departed after serving as co-president of alternative investments, was another notable departure from the division. The head of healthcare investing at the Wall Street bank, Jo Natauri, is also retiring after the current fiscal year.
In late 2022, Matt Gibson will be appointed to co-lead the client business alongside Kojima, and he will take full ownership of the division. The asset and wealth management director, Marc Nachmann, is his immediate superior.
Nachmann said in a statement, “Chr is founded and led businesses that are incredibly important to Goldman Sachs, and our business today is stronger because of his leadership.”
Kojima has also held the position of worldwide head of Goldman’s manager selection and alternative investments business, which is currently known as the external investment group. From the company’s founding in 2008 until 2019, he served as its leader.
In 1995, he began working as an investment banking associate at Goldman Sachs. 2002, he was promoted to managing director, and in 2008, he was made a partner.
Kojima hinted that he would join a company that collaborates with the investment bank in an email to Reuters, saying, “I’m looking forward to a long relationship with Goldman Sachs as an alumnus, client, and advocate.”
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