Michael Sherwood

Board Member

Michael is a senior director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He retired in 2016 as vice chairman of the firm and co-chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs International, roles he assumed in 2008 and 2005, respectively. Michael first joined Goldman Sachs in 1986 and became a partner in 1994. He was head of the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division in Europe before becoming global co-head of the Securities Division in 2003.

Michael is a member of the Westminster Abbey Campaign Development Board, a sponsor of the Harefield Academy, chairman of Greenhouse Sports and a trustee of Grenada Schools and the Serpentine Galleries. Michael is a director of Credit Benchmark, Moscot Inc. and Revolut. Michael earned a BA from the University of Manchester in 1986.

Credit Benchmark brings together internal credit risk views from over 40 leading global financial institutions. The contributions are anonymized, aggregated, and published in the form of consensus ratings and aggregate analytics to provide an independent, real-world perspective of credit risk. Risk and investment professionals at banks, insurance companies, asset managers and other financial firms use the data for insights into the unrated, monitoring and alerting within their portfolios, benchmarking, assessing and analyzing trends, and fulfilling regulatory requirements and capital.