Harvey Schwartz

Harvey M. Schwartz (born 1964) is an American businessperson, investor and philanthropist. He currently serves as CEO of The Carlyle Group, the world’s second-largest private equity firm. He is also group chairperson and non-executive director of The Bank of London, a clearing and transaction bank. He also serves on the board of SoFi, a San Francisco-based fintech company, and One Mind, a mental health and brain research nonprofit organization. He formerly worked at Goldman Sachs from 1997 to 2018, with his last post there being president and co-chief operating officer. Early life and career Schwartz was born in Morristown, NJ and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rutgers University in 1987. He started his career at J. B. Hanauer & Co., and then moved to First Interregional Equity Corporation. In 1989, Schwartz joined Citigroup, where he worked in the firm's credit training program and developed a specialty in structuring commodity derivatives. Schwartz received his MBA in 1996 from Columbia Business School, and joined Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) in 1997 as a vice president in its commodities trading business, J. Aron & Co., which the investment bank acquired in 1981. At Goldman Sachs, he held several senior executive leadership roles overseeing sales and trading, finance, technology and operations. He served as the firm’s chief financial officer beginning in 2012, and then became president and co-COO starting in 2016, with David M. Solomon being the other co-COO. Schwartz retired from Goldman Sachs in 2018, and shortly afterward Solomon was designated as the successor to outgoing CEO Lloyd Blankfein.