Thanksgiving Films You Forgot: The Ice Storm
Originally posted November 16th, 2015
It’s November, and because it’s the most thankful time of the year, I’m taking a look at the Thanksgiving films you either didn’t see, or forgot existed. This week, I’m looking at The Ice Storm, which was directed by Ang Lee and stars an ensemble cast of Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, and Adam Hann-Byrd.
The Ice Storm takes a very deliberate approach to its story; it’s a character drama at its heart, and Ang Lee takes his time progressing through the story. The first half of the film focuses on the few days before Thanksgiving, and follows two major stories: Kevin Kline’s affair with Sigourney Weaver, Christina Ricci’s relationship with Adam Hann-Byrd and his younger brother Elijah Wood.
Kline’s affair is a fairly simple story; he and Joan Allen are married, and he’s seeking sexual satisfaction with his neighbor Henry Czerny’s wife, Sigourney Weaver. Lee shows us that this simple arrangement isn’t quite what we might predict however, when Kline begins babbling to Weaver about his problems at work.
It would seem he’s seeking emotional fulfillment more than sexual fulfillment, and Weaver refuses to reciprocate his outpouring of emotions, telling him that if she wanted to hear about his problems, she’d just go speak to her husband. Later on, she abandons him, leaving him in his boxers with free reign over his house, sending the message that she’s not even interested in him sexually any longer.
The relationship between Christina Ricci and Adam Hann-Byrd is a complex one as well. They’re both fourteen year olds, going through the beginnings of puberty, and they’ve begun to experiment sexually, keeping this hidden from their parents. Ricci’s character is particularly sexual, and steps out of the bounds of their relationship to show herself off to Elijah Wood, Hann-Byrd’s younger brother.
Wood’s character, though tangentially interested in sex, is actually repulsed by Ricci’s exhibitionism, and responds appropriately, calling for help and getting his mother, Weaver, to kick Ricci out. When Hann-Byrd discovers this, he’s slightly dismayed, but as soon as Ricci exhibits sexual interest in him again, he forgets his concerns, and the two of them begin to experiment in his parents’ basement.
The second half of the film focuses on Thanksgiving night, which follows Kline and his wife Joan Allen as they attend a cocktail party, Ricci as she sneaks off to spend the night with Wood. At this point in the film, the stories begin to parallel one another, with each exploring themes of sexuality and personal connection in different but similar ways.
At this point in the film, Joan Allen has discovered that Kline is having an affair with Weaver, and their relationship has taken a significant toll as a result. This toll is intensified when they arrive to the cocktail party to discover that it is a “key party,” or a party wherein the men leave their keys in a bowl for the women to select from at random to determine who they will be going home with. Allen and Kline quickly get into an argument about this, with Allen eventually deciding to let Klein do whatever he wants, and throwing his keys into the bowl for him.
At the end of the night, when the women all select the keys, Allen chooses near the end after her husband has passed out drunk, and decides to go home with Czerny. They attempt to have sex, but Czerny is deterred, lacking the confidence to move forward, despite the fact that Weaver left early on with another man. Where Allen is ready to surrender to her physicality, Czerny refuses, letting his need for honest emotional connection supersede his desire for sex.
While her parents are away at the cocktail party, Ricci sneaks off to meet Elijah Wood at his house, and upon arrival discovers that his brother has left to go to an abandoned swimming pool in the forest. She and Wood decide to go up to his bedroom and lie in his bed together naked, but once they’ve stripped down, they don’t engage sexually. Instead, they talk, and lie in bed together, reveling in an honest emotional connection. It’s a very sweet and innocent moment, and it reveals that Ricci’s hypersexuality is a tool she uses; it scared off Wood, but not Hann-Byrd, and through this, she was able to determine that Wood was genuinely interested in her.
The parallels between these storylines are most clear when examining the way sex is used as a tool by these characters. Weaver most clearly uses sex as a tool, and she does so for no other reason than her own sexual pleasure, rejecting the intimacy of sex altogether. Ricci uses sex as a tool to test people, but she also uses it as a way to gain acceptance.
When she finds someone who isn’t interested in her for sex alone however, she recognizes her need for intimacy, and embraces a moment of non-sexuality. Finally, Allen, at the end of the film, attempts to use sex as a tool of revenge, wanting to sleep with Czerny only to upset her husband. But Czerny ultimately isn’t interested, desiring only the intimacy that comes alongside sex, and wanting to keep that intimacy between him and his wife.
Finally, Kline himself uses sex as a tool to gain intimacy; he sleeps with Weaver in order to try and have an emotional connection with her, and he spirals out of control when he doesn’t get that connection from her, ending up making a fool of himself at the cocktail party when Weaver leaves with someone other than him.
Ang Lee’s exploration of intimacy in this film is brilliant and subtle, showing the many ways people use sex to gain intimacy. The only real “complaint” I have about this film is that its setting around Thanksgiving is mostly incidental; this story could have happened at any point in the year, and its themes don’t line up with the themes of family and appreciation that are inherent to Thanksgiving. Still, ‘The Ice Storm’ is an excellent film, and you likely won’t find a more interesting film to watch this Thanksgiving (assuming you also require it be set around Thanksgiving).
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Goldman Sachs' new managing-director list is out — and it's the largest class in the firm's history (GS)
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Goldman Sachs announced its largest-ever class of managing directors.
Of the 509 promoted, 44% are millennials.
The firm announces managing-director promotions every two years.
It's one of the most coveted positions on Wall Street, a step below partner at the premier investment bank.
Goldman Sachs just announced a new class of 509 managing directors — the largest class in the firm's history.
The position is one of the most coveted on Wall Street, one step below partner at the prestigious investment-banking firm. The firm now has 2,148 managing directors, making up 7.1% of the company's workforce.
It's also one of the youngest classes the bank has promoted — 44% are millennials, up from 30% in 2015.
Other headline stats about the class:
66% started their careers as analysts or associates at Goldman Sachs.
24% of the class is women, down from 25% in 2015.
130 were promoted in the securities division, up from 102 in 2015.
101 were promoted in investment banking, up from 97 in 2015.
52 were promoted in technology, up from 38 in 2015.
Eight were promoted in consumer and commercial banking — the division that houses the bank's online-lending business, Marcus — compared with zero in 2015.
Here's the full statement:
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has selected a new class of Managing Directors, effective from January 1, 2018, the start of the firm's next fiscal year.
"Our new Managing Directors have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to our people, clients and culture during their tenures at the firm, and we wish them continued success as they take this important next step in their careers," said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.
The following individuals have been promoted to Managing Director:
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The Flask, a 17th-century former coaching inn at the top of Highgate Hill in north London, has seen its share of poetic outsider figures. Dick Turpin purportedly hid out in the stables. Byron, Shelley and Keats dropped by after visiting the opium-addicted local resident Coleridge. Now Matt Healy, leader of the pop interlopers the 1975 and cutting a Byronic dash himself with a wayward thatch of curls and rose-painted leather jacket and jeans, is in the Flask’s cellar-like back room.
He’s explaining how the Wilmslow band’s heavy presence at this year’s Brit awards — nominations for best British group and album of the year, plus a live appearance — is proof that rank outsiders can upset the mainstream.
“It’s an important moment for us because we’re a subversive act to have broken through on such a level that the Brits would want us to perform,” says Healy, 27, staring intensely over the weathered wooden table. “I’m not from the Brits’ world. I shouldn’t be there and everyone needs to know that. I couldn’t get arrested until I was 23.” He thinks about this for a moment. “Actually, I did get arrested when I was 23, but you know what I mean. I suffer massively from impostor syndrome.”
A cynic might point out that as far as impostors go Healy is an unusually well-connected one. His mother is Denise Welch, alumna ofCoronation Street and Loose Women, and his father is the actor Tim Healy of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
“I answered the phone to Harold Pinter once,” Matt Healy offers. “My parents did make following a creative pursuit seem like a viable life choice, but Coronation Street doesn’t buy you currency in rock’n’roll. It’s a curse, actually. When people say my parents bought my connections I think: ‘Yeah, the best person to get you a record deal is Curly Watts. Mention Gail Tilsley to Universal Records and you’ve got a No 1 album in America.’ ”
Forming the band during lunch breaks at Wilmslow High School in 2002 when they were only 13, Healy, guitarist Adam Hann, bassist Ross MacDonald and drummer George Daniel went under a variety of names before settling on the 1975. They vowed to reflect a young, internet-bred generation’s relationship with music where there are no guilty pleasures any more, just an endless world of choices from which to cherry-pick. This approach — of combining everything from shiny pop and gothic introspection to overblown stadium rock, and aligning it all to the terminal oversharer Healy’s emotionally wrought lyrics — led to such glorious moments as playing a concert in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, to an audience of one.
Full interview under the cut
“We were a band with an identity crisis,” Healy says. “I was going around telling people we were the ambassadors of a generation who approach music in a non-linear way, who don’t think in terms of genre. The only problem was nobody was interested.”
Gradually, word got out. The 1975’s self-named debut from 2013 was a hit. When the preposterously titled I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It went to No 1 in 2016, the 1975 became Britain’s biggest cult band. Now here we are on a rainy January lunchtime and the wildly entertaining Healy is grappling with his conflicted feelings on stardom.
“Can you even be a rock star today?” he asks, talking as much to himself as to me. “The only way I can be a rock star is to be a humble egomaniac. I am saying: love me, with no top on, in a pair of leather trousers, but that obnoxiousness comes with genuine fragility and fear because it’s important for people to feel personally addressed when it comes to art. I’d rather talk about a part of myself that I have a profound distaste for than paint myself in a good way.”
What part of himself does he have a distaste for? “I’m constantly apologising for being pretentious and egotistical,” he says. “And I don’t like it that I can’t have platonic relationships with women. I don’t know why that is. I don’t sexualise women and I’m not misogynistic, but perhaps I’m such an atheist that the closest I can get to divinity is the feeling you have when a woman likes you . . .” He puts his hands over his mouth. “Oh no! This is all going a bit Ron Burgundy!”
Healy does tend to let his mouth run away from him in a way not dissimilar to Will Ferrell’s portentous character in Anchorman. In an interview with The Times in 2014 he pondered on whether he might actually be the Messiah. Last year he got into hot water after recalling Taylor Swift coming to one of the 1975’s concerts. Reflecting on the hysteria surrounding her, he wondered if it would be emasculating to be her boyfriend. The celebrity blogger Perez Hilton picked up on it and interpreted it as an insult against Swift. It also started a rumour that Healy was Swift’s boyfriend.
“Imagine what it is like being Taylor Swift,” says Healy now. “A guy you met for five minutes gets so badgered by questions about you, he inevitably says something that can be misheard as a shade. It made me realise how mental her world is.”
Healy is like your loudest, silliest friend who became famous by mistake and is still working out what you’re meant to do. When he tells of sharing a Saturday Night Live green room with Larry David, Ben Stiller and Bernie Sanders or recalls Dolly Parton calling him a cutie, you sense his awe.
“Mate, I’m just a snot-nosed teenager from Wilmslow and I’ve taken that world with me. The guy who used to do our merchandise is now my assistant, but I can’t call him my assistant because it’s Dan from maths who I used to sit next to. I’d like to say that backstage is like a meeting of Ginsberg, Blake and Lennon. Actually it’s more like The Inbetweeners with us playing Fifa and calling each other dickheads. Put me in a room with famous people and I’m rubbish. When David Byrne was in the dressing room next to ours I was the most uncool person in the world. I was lingering by the door, waiting for David Byrne to come out. Then he appears just as I’m opening a bag of Haribo, I’m shocked, they split open and go everywhere, he walks past me without saying anything and I’m just a dick with a bag of sweets.”
Then there are the fans, who are for the most part teenage girls who identify deeply with Healy while also finding him extremely attractive. “I do take my artistic responsibility seriously because with some of my fans it gets heavy,” he says, looking serious for a moment. “Someone sent me razor blades she tried to kill herself with. She was giving them to me to make sure she never did it again. Kids draw me all the time. I used to have my own emotional baggage. Now I have to buy a suitcase on every tour just for all the emotional baggage I get sent.”
Is that a burden? “No because I totally get it. Fundamentally what people want is human connection. Regardless of religion, or whether the world will come to an end, or what worlds may have come before, the only thing that will actually, definitely happen is interaction with another human being.”
All of this fed into I Like It When You Sleep . . . , its title an expression of Healy’s desire to make an album as over the top and emotionally unchained as possible. The funky, Prince-like Love Me is his response to becoming an icon of sorts; Ugh! is an expression of disgust at his former cocaine excess; The Ballad of Me and My Brain is a depiction of being driven insane by fame; and Loving Someone is a celebration of companionship that has become something of an anthem for the LGBT community. Healy says the album is the product of a band facing up to the crisis of finding themselves, after years of indifference, very popular indeed.
“We freaked out!” says Healy, excitedly, of their sudden success. “We spent ten years in my dad’s garage without anyone caring who we were. Nobody would sign us, so our manager formed a label and signed us for 20 quid in his kitchen, while making pasta and pesto. And then it happened. We were on tour for two years, suddenly it was time to make the second album and we didn’t know if we could do it. George had a breakdown and had to get help. And what was there to write about? I knew I couldn’t release a single called God, Aren’t Threesomes a Nightmare?”
He considers this. “Not that I was having threesomes, but nobody else was sharing our experiences so I had to go deep. What are the fundamentals? Fear, religion, struggles with addiction, my relationship with my mother, dealing with death . . . And I can’t change who I am. When it comes down to it I’m a gaunt, insecure person who is writing about being young and doing drugs.”
You can’t help but like him. He may be completely self-obsessed, but at least he has the grace to acknowledge it. (“I don’t think I’m Marc Bolan, but I like the fact that you might think that I think I’m Marc Bolan.”) And there’s something generous about the way he wants to give you everything he has to offer, whether you are a fan watching him preen on the stages of the world or a journalist wondering if, after an hour and a half of non-stop chat, he might feel like stopping soon. He is a rock star born in an age when being a rock star without a degree of irony is no longer viable.
“I started out in a band because it made me happy,” he concludes. “Then all this stuff happened, I got scared and I didn’t know why I was doing it any more until I remembered: because it makes me happy! This is my life. I would be selling flowers on Brent Cross roundabout if it weren’t for the 1975.”
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Mayor
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Michelle Baikie
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Wilbur Patey
Bert Pomery
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Jordan Brown
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Mayor
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Gavin Will
Councillor
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Joe Butler
Dean Churchill
Jennifer Dwyer
Johnny Hanlon
Darryl Harding
Cyril Hayden
Stephen King
Jeff Laham
Kerry McDonald
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Tina Neary
Madonna Stewart Sharpe
Tracey Whitewick
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Craig Scott – Elected
Councillor
Trina Appelby
Geoff Gallant
Ward Gosse
Justin Martin
Tony Pollard
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Goldman Sachs' new managing director list is out
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Goldman Sachs just announed a new class of managing directors.
Here's the statement:
NEW YORK, November 8, 2017 -- The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has selected a new class of Managing Directors, effective from January 1, 2018, the start of the firm’s next fiscal year.
“Our new Managing Directors have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to our people, clients and culture during their tenures at the firm, and we wish them continued success as they take this important next step in their careers,” said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.
The following individuals have been promoted to Managing Director:
Gregg Abramson
Sanjay Acharya
Khalid Albdah
Amal Alibair
Karthikeyan Anbalagan
Rolf Andersson
Volker Anger
Jonathan Armstrong
Ken Ashley
Lavanya Ashok
Sebastian Ayton
Jonathan Babkow
Julio Badi
Amitayush Bahri
Soren Balzer
Robert Barlick Jr.
Philip Barreca
Santiago Bau
David Bauer
Oksana Beard
Lee Becker
Virender Bedi
Stuart Beer
Christian Beerli
Amanda Beisel
Yumiko Bekku
David Bell
Pierre Benichou
Andrew Benito
Marco Bensi
Laura Benson
Stephen Bergin
Daniel Berglund
Greg Berry
Shital Bhatt
Dipanjan Bhattacharjee
Anu Bhavnani
Carissa Biggie
Vineet Birman
Daniel Bitel
Anne Black
Richard Blore
Emmanuel Bodenstein
Timothy Braude
Sean Brenan
Hugh Briscoe
Nathaniel Bristol
Leo Brito
Troy Broderick
Levee Brooks
Eric Brothers
Robert Bruns III
Anthony Bunnell
Meg Burke
Susan Burt
Sean Butkus
Russell Byrne
Edward Byun
Adam Cahill
Alessandro Calace
Cristiano Camargo
Ken Cawley
Swapan Chaddha
Patrick Chamberlain
Richard Chambers
Daphne Chan
Lily Chan
Ben Chance
Ginger Chang
Vikram Chavali
Alex Cheek
Jae Joon Choi
Ken Choi
Paul Choi
David Clark
Denis Cleary
Daniel Cleland-James
Ayanna Clunis
Pamela Codo-Lotti
Jesse Cohen
Paul Coles
Simon Coombes
Jenny Cosco
Philip Coureau
Nathan Cowen
Matthew Cox (Securities)
Shaun Cullinan
Christine D'Agostino
Emile Daher
Hiren Dasani
Russell Day
Pierre De Belen
Merche del Valle
Caitlin DeSantis
Jack Devaney
Thomas Devos
Mats Dewitte
Hristo Dimitrov
Tim Dinsdale
Isabella Disler
Christian Ditullio
Terence Doherty
Yakut Donat
Nicola Dondi
Brian Dong
Jason D'Silva
Stefan Duffner
Jane Dunlevie
Marie Duval
Julien Dyon
Rohini Eapen
Zach Eckler
Sayaka Eda
Jason Eisenstadt
Chris Emmerson
Tiffany Eng
Chendan Esvaran
Erkko Etula
Liz Ewing
Michael Fargher
Matteo Farina
Leigh Farris
Sarah Faulkner
Tom Favia
Brett Feldman
Jennifer Feng
Jon Ferguson
Alex Field
Herbert Filho
Alex Finston
Dean Flanagan
Greg Flynn
Trip Foley
Andrew Ho Kwon Fong
Moran Forman
Michael Fox
Caroline Fraser
Daniel Freckleton
Tim Freeman
Reto Frei
Giles French
Kirsten Frivold
Michael Fu
Rob Fuentes
Kenji Fujimoto
Carrie Gannon
Chantal Garcia
Akhil Garg
Alex Garner
Nick Gelber
Andrew Gent
Gizelle George-Joseph
Andrea Gift
Sean Gilbride
Andreas Glaser
Yong Suan Goh
Sona Gohel
Amir Gold
Jeremy Goldstein
Steven Gonzalez
Jeff Gowen
Adam Greene
Tom Groothaert
Hannes Gsell
Ashwin Gupta
Ali Haji
Ayaz Haji
Robert Hamilton Kelly
Victoria Hampson
Raja Harb
Andy Harding
Ryan Harster
Selma Hassan
Stephen Hawinkels
Jacqueline Haynes
Jason He*
Craig Hempstead
David Herrmann
David Hickey
Thomas Hilger
Mitch Hochberg
Jodi Hochberger
Jane Hodges
Peter Hodgkinson
Dylan Hogarty
Tim Holliday
Naftali Holtz
Amy Hong
Jason Hudes
Earl Hunt
Joseph Hwang
Yoshinori Ide
Kazuya Iketani
Daniel Jackson
Ankit Jain (Risk)
Gaurav Jaitly
Jan Janssen
David Jeria
Alnawaz Jiwa
Kim Johns
Scott Johnson
Elis Jones
Neil Jones
Robert Jones
Philip Joseph
Anand Joshi
Shawn Joshi
Ritu Kalra
Michael Kaprelian
Nadeem Kayani
Alicia Keenan
Neil Kelleher
Tom Kennedy
Aqil Khan
Sarah Kiernan
Daniel Kim
Eugene Kim (IMD)
Jason Kim (GIR)
Sora Kim
Kristy Kinahan
Eugene King
Laura Kirk
Kunal Kishore
Elliot Klapper
Jayee Koffey
Jason Koon
Jennifer Kopylov
Daniel Korich
Ichiro Kosuge
Vladimir Kotlyar
Samuel Krasnik
Katherine Krause
David Kraut
Sergey Kraytman
Nitin Kulkarni
Ram Kulkarni
Dileep Kumar (Securities)
Santosh Kunnakkat
Wendy Kwong
JP Lall
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David Landman
Yi Larson
Niccolo Laudiero
Nick Laux
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Phillip Lee
Samuel Lee
Shawn Lee
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Naomi Leslie
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Na Li
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Philip Linton
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Daniel Liu
Eric Liu
Heiman Lo
Juan Lorenzo
Tian Lu
Wayne Lu
James Lucas
Dennis Luebcke
Martin Luehrmann
John Lynch
Gina Lytle
Leo Ma*
Caesar Maasry
Geoff MacDonald
Robert Magnuson
Toshiyuki Makabe
Mariano Mallol
Geydar Mamedov
Kara Mangone
Donna Mansfield
Ajit Marathe
Gilberto Marcheggiano
James Marchese
Michael Marcus
Joshua Matheus
Ann Mathews
Chris Mathie
Brian McCallion
Graham McClelland
Anne McCosker
Michael Meehan (Compliance)
Taylor Mefford
Neil Mehta
Adam Meister
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Eric Meyers
Alex Mignotte
Andras Mikite
Christopher Milligan
Rahul Mistry
Mike Mitchell
Neil Moge
Waleed Mohsin
Babak Molavi
Joel Monson
Guy Morgan
James Morris
Antoine Munfa
Aimee Mungovan
Yuji Murata
Dan Murphy
Josh Murray
Brian Musto
Shehzad Nabi
Devarajan Nambakam
Ramanathan Narayanan
Ganapathy Natarajan
Danielle Natoli
Murad Nayal
Karim Nensi
Scott Neu
Dennis Ng
Ken Ng
Benjamin Ngan
Joy Nguyen
Salman Niaz
Anders Nielsen (IMD)
Howard Nifoussi
Jun Niki
Leah Nivison
Laura Noble
James Nolan
Lauren Oakes
Lynn Oberschmidt
Allison O'Connor
John O'Connor
Shunil Ohrie
Damian Ordish
Leke Osinubi
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Sathiya Padmanaban
Danielle Pallin
Salvador Pareja
Dalmir Pasini
Clorinda Pasqua
Chris Pawson
Paris Pender
Patrick Perkins
Philippe Perzi
Wendy Peters
Andy Phillips
Flavio Picciotto
Michael Pieck
Sam Pirog
Thomas Plank
Joseph Plotkin
Wade Podlich
Ashish Pokharna
Caitlin Pollak
Charles Pollock
Joe Porter
Travis Potter
Rohit Prabhu
Richard Privorotsky
Andrew Pucher
Jay Rabinowitz
Ankit Raj
Harsha Rajamani
Dmitry Rakhlin
Yasser Rathore
Edoardo Rava
Elizabeth Reed
Alexandre Reinert
Stephen Reinhard
Irfan Rendeci
Christian Resch
Andrew Rhee
Riccardo Riboldi
James Rinsler
Caroline Riskey
Helen Robinson
Mark Rosen
Amit Roy
Joe Ryan
Bernhard Rzymelka
Takehiro Sakuramoto
John Sales
Rob Sarazen
Vineeta Saxena
Dominik Schaefer
Andrea Scott
Majid Sebti
Bipin Sehgal
Arseni Seregin
Irma Sgarz
Paulomi Shah
Shreyas Shah
Sunny Shah
Faisal Shamsee
Daniel Shapiro
Mahesh Sharma
Shripal Sharma
Mai Shin
Romy Shioda
Toshimichi Shirai
Mark Short
Pankauz Shrestha
David Shrimpton
Obaid Siddiqui
Mike Sidorov
Scott Silverglate
Stefani Silverstein
Amy Silverzweig
Jasdeep Singh
Gabriella Skirnick
Michael Sklow
Maxine Sleeper
Michael Slomienski
Michael Sloyer
Nicholas Smith (IBD)
Ruth Smithson
Christine Smyth
Ben Snider
Stacy Sonnenberg
Cleaver Sower
Ro Spaziani
Brian Steele
Johannes Steffens
Duncan Stewart
Stephen Stites
Laurent Storoni
Caroline Styant
Joel Sulkes
Mancy Sun
Winnie Tam
Nachiket Tamhane
Ken Tang
MK Tang
Amish Tanna
Melissa Teng
Ross Tennenbaum
Greg Thompson
Fiona Thomson
Justin Tobe
Jason Tofsky
Brad Tuthill
Masahiro Uchiyama
Nehal Udeshi
Saad Usmani
Meg Vaden
Pramod Vaidyanathan
Adam Van de Berghe
Fred van der Wyck
Suzanne van Staveren
Andrew Vass
Mahesh Vellanki
Kadambari Verma
Christopher Vilburn
Iva Vukina
Heng Vuong
Ketan Vyas
Joe Wall
Jeffrey Wang
Jiantao Wang
Joshua Wang
Lily Wang (Technology)
Sherry Wang
Victoria Ward (Compliance)
Jeff Warren
Noriko Watanabe
Ramey Watkins
Sam Watkins
Heiko Weber
Niki Webster
Scott Weinstein
Ryan Westmacott
James Westwood
Keith Wetzel
Mark Wetzel
James Whittingham
Sabine Wick
Robert Wieser
Devin Wilde
David Wilkins
John Wilkinson
Andrew Williams
Ed Wong (IBD Technology)
Eric Wong (Internal Audit)
Kate Wood
Amanda Wu
Douglas Wu
Joanne Xu
Liang Xu**
Rupam Yadav
Kazushi Yamaguchi
Hubert Yang
Lisa Yang
Basak Yavuz
Zeynep Yenel
David Yu
Brian Zakrocki
Thomas Zeppetella
Yi Zhang*
Adib Zouein
Patrik Zumstein
Piotr Zurawski
Jonathan Zwart
*Employee of Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities Company Limited
**Employee of Beijing Gao Hua Securities Company Limited
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