Join us for an exclusive fireside chat and lunch with Goldman Sachs Senior Chairman and former CEO, Lloyd Blankfein. The discussion will be moderated by Dan Dees, Goldman Sachs Co-Head of Global Banking & Markets. Mr. Blankfein will discuss his memoir, Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs, while reflecting on his distinguished career, his leadership during the financial crisis, and his contributions to Goldman Sachs and the financial industry. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from two of the most informed voices in finance in an intimate setting.

Who: JFEDLA’s Finance & Business Network
What: Fireside Chat with Lloyd Blankfein and Dan Dees
When: Monday, April 13th | 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Where: West L.A. location shared with registrants

There is no charge for this event. Space is limited, and reservations will be first-come, first-served.

For questions, please contact Jasmine Beroukhim at JBeroukhim@JewishLA.org or (323) 761-8163. We look forward to seeing you on April 13th.

 

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2026 04/13 Finance & Business Network Fireside Chat and Lunch with Lloyd Blankfein and Dan Dees
Join us for an exclusive fireside chat and lunch with Goldman Sachs Senior Chairman and former CEO Lloyd Blankfein moderated by Goldman Sachs Co-Head of Global Banking & Markets Dan Dees.
Monday, April 13, 2026
 
Attendees: 1 No Charge

 

 

Lloyd Blankfein is senior chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He joined the J. Aron Currency and Commodities Division of Goldman Sachs in 1982 after working as an attorney in a law firm. Lloyd was named partner in 1988 and co-head of the J. Aron Division in 1994. He became co-head of the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division as of its formation in 1997 and was based in London from 1997 to 1999 in that capacity.

Lloyd served as vice chairman of Goldman Sachs from 2002 through 2003, with management responsibility for the FICC and Equities Divisions. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, he served as the firm’s president and chief operating officer from December 2003 through June 2006. He served as the firm’s chairman and chief executive officer from 2006 through September 2018, and remained as chairman through December 2018.

Lloyd earned a JD from Harvard Law School in 1978 and an AB from Harvard College in 1975.

Among his affiliations with nonprofit organizations, Lloyd is a member of several Harvard advisory boards, a member of the Executive Committee of the UJA-Federation of New York, a Board Fellow of Weill Cornell Medicine, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

 

Dan Dees is co-head of Global Banking & Markets. He is a member of the Management Committee and chair of the Firmwide Client Franchise Committee.

Dan joined Goldman Sachs in 1992 in New York in the Corporate Finance Group within the Investment Banking Division (IBD) and then moved to the Capital Markets Department in 1994. He held a number of responsibilities within Capital Markets, including working in Hong Kong initially from 1994 to 1995, working with private equity clients in New York in the mid-1990s, working on the Goldman Sachs initial public offering from 1998 to 1999, managing a number of the technology capital markets businesses from 1999 to 2001, managing the consumer, retail, and healthcare businesses from 2002 to 2004, and working in Tokyo as head of the Japan Financing Group from 2004 to 2007. Prior to being named co-head of IBD for Asia Pacific Ex-Japan in 2012, Dan was head of the Financing Group in Asia Pacific. In early 2014, he relocated to San Francisco to become global co-head of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group. Dan served as co-head of IBD from 2018 to 2022. He was named managing director in 2001 and partner in 2004.

Dan earned a BA in Economics from Duke University in 1992.

 

 

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