Russell Horwitz, Goldman Sachs’ chief of staff, will leave his role at the end of June
Goldman chief of staff to leave bank in June. Russell Horwitz, a nearly two-decade alum of the bank, will become an advisory director once he departs, according to a memo. Russell Horwitz, Goldman Sachs’ chief of staff, will leave his role at the end of June, the bank announced in a memo Tuesday seen by Banking Dive.
Horwitz has spent nearly two decades at the bank – joining as a speechwriter for then-CEO Hank Paulson in 2004, then ascending to chief of staff for the CEO under Paulson’s successor, Lloyd Blankfein, according to a LinkedIn profile that has since been deleted. Horwitz left Goldman in 2020 as deputy chief of staff for the company but returned as chief of staff in 2023.
In his role, Horwitz oversees the operations of Goldman’s executive office, including corporate communications, government and regulatory affairs and corporate engagement, according to a company bio. Horwitz will become an advisory director at Goldman once he steps down, the bank said.
But his work will have a “lasting impact,” Goldman CEO David Solomon said. “We have benefitted greatly from his incisive perspectives and thoughtful counsel on a wide range of consequential issues for Goldman Sachs, our clients, and our people around the world,” Solomon wrote Tuesday. Horwitz advised the bank during the nadir of the 2007-08 financial crisis and, later, during fallout from the lender’s 1MDB scandal. “I’m very proud of what the broader executive office has accomplished, as a team, over the last few years,” Horwitz said.
Before joining Goldman, Horwitz served as special assistant to the national economic adviser and deputy director of communications research at the White House from 1995 to 1998. He later worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission. Between his Goldman stints, he was Citadel’s chief global affairs officer, responsible for communications, marketing and branding, regulatory and government affairs, and philanthropy.
Horwitz becomes the second member of Goldman’s management committee to announce an upcoming June departure. The bank’s chief legal officer, Kathryn Ruemmler, said in February she would leave amid a Justice Department release of emails and other documents that exposed the extent of her ties to late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein….” ~ Published May 26, 2026 Dan Ennis Senior Editor
