Vivek Bantwal, Goldman Sachs – 2024 Wharton MBA Graduation Speech

Watch Vivek Bantwal (W‘99), Head of Global Financing Group at Goldman Sachs, deliver his graduation speech at the 2024 Wharton MBA Graduation ceremony. The event took place on May 19, 2024 at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.

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About the speaker:

Vivek Bantwal is the head of the Global Financing Group at Goldman Sachs which consists of the firm’s debt and equity capital markets businesses, Leveraged Finance, Structured Finance, Real Estate Finance and Corporate Derivatives. He serves as co-chair of the Firmwide Capital Committee and is a member of the Global Banking and Markets Operating Committee and the Investment Banking Executive Committee.

Vivek joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as an analyst and spent five years in structured finance prior to helping drive the development of the firm’s financing and risk management franchise for the Natural Resources business. He became head of Structured Finance in the Americas in 2015. In 2016 he became co-head of the newly formed Americas Credit Finance Group, consisting of the firm’s Structured Finance and Leveraged Finance businesses, and focused on providing clients integrated financing and strategic advice across a broad spectrum of the credit capital markets. From 2019 to 2021 when he took his current role, Vivek was the Chief Operating Officer of the Global Markets division working closely with the division heads on the overall management of the division, as well as the development and execution of its strategic initiatives. Across these roles, Vivek has a long track record of client focus, commercial growth, strategic innovation and people leadership including serving as firmwide captain of the University of Pennsylvania analyst recruiting team.

He serves on the Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School, the Leadership Council of the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute at Mount Sinai, the Penn Council for Discovery Sciences, and the board of the American India Foundation.

Vivek was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. He earned a BS in Economics, magna cum laude, from the Wharton School. He now lives in Tribeca with his wife and three kids but remains a passionate Philadelphia sports fan.

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