BIO

Irvin Goldman is a senior executive who has been CEO and managing partner of a global securities firm and multi-million dollar hedge fund, respectively. While Irv is perhaps best known for generating over 3 billion USD in net income by running  Credit Suisse First Boston’s Interest Rate and Proprietary trading business without ever sustaining an unacceptable loss, Irv  Goldman also notably  built the Debt Capital Markets and Asset Management divisions of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. post 9/11. Irv  lead Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. in its establishment as one of 22 primary dealers with the Federal Reserve Bank and underwriter for GSA’s. His success led him to be promoted to President & CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. in 2006. After having a major philosophical and strategic difference with the Chairman, Irv left the firm to join JP Morgan, initially as a portfolio manager, then as Head of Strategy for the firms 350 Billion Fixed Income Portfolio within the Chief Investment Office. His success led to a misfortunately timed promotion of Chief Risk Officer.

Timeline

Irv started his career at Salomon Brothers in New York, where he was promoted to head of desk after 18 months with 5 direct reports, eventually becoming Vice President of Salomon’s Finance Department. In 1988, Irv then left Salomon to work for First Boston, where he worked his way up to be head of US Interest Rate and Derivative Businesses by 1995. Through very strong risk management and business building skills and a eminent return record,  Irv was able to revitalize First Boston’s Mortgage Backed  Department, which lost over 70 percent of its staff, and to preclude ever having any unacceptable drawdowns or losses. Irvin Goldman left First Boston in 2001 to launch a hedge fund, which he closed immediately after the events of September 2001, returning investor original capital.

After launching Goldrock Entertainment, a film finance company,  Irv took on the challenge of helping rebuild Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. which he successfully accomplished. Besides, establishing a division with 200mm in revenues, Irv took over an equity derivatives sector with three consecutive  annual negative 8 figure losses, and turned the business around to generate 40mm profit within his first year. After further establishing and launching a business of raising capital and investing in a portfolio of hedge funds, Irv was promoted to President and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Company.  After disagreement over strategic direction, Irv Goldman left Cantor Fitzgerald to join JPMorgan Chase as Managing Director of the Chief Investment Office, where he was responsible for advising on investment and business strategy of 350 Billion Global Fixed Income Portfolio. After continuing the success he had shown in his advising and investment throughout his career, Irv was promoted to Chief Risk Officer

Mr. Goldman graduated from NYU’s Five Year BS MBA program in four years, while teaching undergraduate courses, co-authoring an unpublished book on Municipal Bonds, and working as a graduate assistant for Professor Robert Lamb. Irvin donates to a host of charitable organizations. Irv’s principal philanthropy includes, but is not limited serving on the Board of Trustees for Summer on the Hill, an underprivileged education program and the Advisory Board of Rock and Wrap it Up, an organization set up to directly address hunger and poverty in the United States by directly delivering unused and untouched food from professional sporting events and concerts those in need. In his leisure time, Mr. Goldman is a cinephile and amateur artist, who has made de facto Warhol Hirschfeld replicas, and has an extensive portfolio of his own. Irv is also an entrepreneur, creating two separate businesses in Goldrock Capital Management and Hamilton Goldman LLC when he was not working. Furthermore, Irv used his imagination and combined two of his interests in entrepreneurship and film to create GoldRock Entertainment – a financial conduit to fund films. GoldRock entertainment funded Manda Bala, which won the Sundance Film Festival Award for Best Documentary in 2007; and, as Irv will tell you in the words of favorite musical artist Neil Young “Imagination” will always be “his best friend.”