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Dan 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.
D.A. Wallach is a venture capital investor and an acclaimed recording artist who Fast Company named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. While an undergraduate at Harvard, D.A. studied with professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and received the Andrew Ramroop and Alain Locke prizes as the top graduate in his department. Prior to leaving school, Pharrell Williams discovered D.A.’s band Chester French and signed the group to Interscope Records, where they released two full-length albums. He has toured with Lady Gaga, Weezer, and Blink 182, performed on TV Shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and appeared in Rolling Stone and Vogue.
In 2011, D.A. stopped touring in order to focus on his other passion, investing. He has since built a parallel career as a venture capitalist, backing a series of industry-defining technology companies including Spotify, SpaceX, Ripple, and The Boring Company. Since 2015, D.A. has focused on biotechnology and healthcare, seeking to reinvent medicine through breakthrough start-ups like Beam, Doctor on Demand, Devoted Health, and Neuralink. As co-founder and General Partner of Time BioVentures, he brings this experience to a new generation of talented entrepreneurs in the life sciences.
Outside of business, D.A. appeared as an actor in the film La La Land, which received 14 Academy Award nominations. He publishes essays on a range of topics on his website www.dawallach.com, and is the co-founder of the non-profit Franca Fund for preventive genomics, an advisory board member of No Patient Left Behind, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute.