At a firm that bends over backward to quash egos and instill a team ethos, Goldman Sachs’ Richard Friedman has been almost too much of a standout performer. As head of the firm’s merchant banking arm, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, the 51-year-old banker won kudos for Goldman’s historic, and hugely profitable, investment in China’s Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in 2006.
Friedman knows his way around a conference room: He was part of the Goldman contingent advising the government on how to save AIG (and, not incidentally, protect Goldman’s multibillion-dollar exposure). As if he needed it, Friedman may have a secret weapon: His wife, Susan, pals around in the Hamptons with Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s spouse, Laura.
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