Esta Stecher

Board Advisor

Esta Stecher is a long-tenured global financial services executive with extensive experience in the banking and investment banking businesses and with tax, legal, finance, internal audit, compensation, and governance matters. In 1994, Ms. Stecher joined Goldman Sachs as the firm’s Tax Director. She became a partner that year and later served as General Counsel, Executive Vice President, and CEO of Goldman Sachs Bank USA. She also had experience leading teams across the globe, including in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Ms. Stecher also worked closely for many years with The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.’s Board of Directors including, in particular, with its Compensation Committee. She has chaired or otherwise been a member of several significant Goldman Sachs subsidiary and affiliate boards, including Goldman Sachs Bank USA.

Ms. Stecher currently sits on the boards of Jackson Financial Inc., Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the University of Minnesota Foundation, and chairs the Goldman Sachs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management and the Ayco Charitable Foundation. She is also currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Columbia Investment Management Company.

Esta graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota (B.A.) in 1979 and earned her J.D. at the Columbia University School of Law in 1982.