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Thanks For rolling: E47 - Marty Chavez

Thanks For Rolling
October 28, 2024

Marty Chavez is computer scientist, entrepreneur, partner and vice chairman of Sixth Street Partners, board member at Alphabet Inc, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the Stanford Medicine Board of Fellows. And that just scratches the surface. In addition to all of his work, and what brings him to Thanks for Rolling is his love of Jiu Jitsu.  We were lucky enough to have Marty give us some of his time to talk about his journey, his passion for jiu jitsu, along with his philosophies for making time for the things you love… read more

Conservative Assault on LGBTQ Rights Rattles Corporate America

Bloomberg.com
October 26, 2024

A Goldman alum and other advocates warn things are sliding “backwards fast” as companies rethink DEI… read more

Nobel Prize-Winner on AI 'Existential Threat,' Mexico's Hope for Manufacturing | Wall Street Week

Bloomberg Television
October 25, 2024

This week, we sit down with "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton after his Nobel Prize win. He discusses new risks from the technology he helped pioneer, what it could mean for CEOs, and how soon AI will become more intelligent than humans. Clips with Marty - One, Two, and Three… read more

Unstoppable Innovation: A Bold Journey through Tech, Wall Street, and Leadership

gobeyondbarriers.com
September 24, 2024

In this episode of Beyond Barriers, host Brooke Skinner Ricketts has a compelling conversation with R. Martin “Marty” Chavez, a trailblazer who has bridged the worlds of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. As the former CIO and CFO of Goldman Sachs and now Vice Chairman of Sixth Street, Marty has been at the forefront of transforming finance through technology… read more

Wall Street pioneer Marty Chavez: ‘Telling my prospective boss I was gay was a litmus test for Goldman Sachs’

fnlondon.com
June 2, 2024

Chavez, a Latino who sports Japanese tattoo sleeves and prefers hoodies to suits, told his future employer he was gay in a job interview in 1993. FN showcases his story here as part of our Pride of Finance celebrations … read more

IN THE VAULT: FINDING A SINGLE SOURCE OF AI TRUTH WITH MARTY CHAVEZ FROM SIXTH STREET

a16z.com
April 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marty Chavez, vice chairman and partner at Sixth Street Partners, about the foundational role he’s had in merging technology and finance throughout his career, and the magical promises and regulatory pitfalls of AI… read more

There are three job paths in AI era, and one ensures failure, says Alphabet board member

CNBC Workforce Wire
December 10, 2023

Marty Chavez, former chief financial officer, chief information officer, and global co-head of securities at Goldman Sachs, has been working with AI for a long time, and well beyond the world of algorithmic trading where the technology found one of its first major market applications … read more

AI IS GOING TO MAKE ALL OF US MORE PRODUCTIVE, SAYS SIXTH STREET’S MARTY CHAVEZ

CNBC Closing Bell: Overtime
October 2, 2023

Marty Chavez, Sixth Street Vice Chairman, Former Goldman Sachs CFO, joins ‘Closing Bell Overtime’ to talk rising interest rates, AI investing and more … read more

CHAVEZ: DUMB TO STAND IN THE WAY OF AI PROGRESS

Bloomberg Wall Street Week
September 15, 2023

Marty Chavez, Sixth Street Partners Vice Chairman outlines the three strategies the financial world can take as it contends with AI. He explains why he would not advise firms to stand in the way of the progress AI can bring. (Source: Bloomberg) …. read more

Sixth Street’s Marty Chavez: Don’t See AI Achieving ‘Holy Grail’

Bloomberg Invest
June 7, 2023

Sixth Street Vice Chairman Marty Chavez discusses the artificial intelligence evolution in investing. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Katie Greifeld at Bloomberg Invest New York 2023. (Source: Bloomberg) … read more

Biopharma leaders paving the way for LGBTQ+ scientists, patients, entrepreneurs and C-suites: Biochemistry to banking to life sciences’ computational future

Endpts.com
June 6, 2023

While former Goldman Sachs CFO Martin Chavez was once the most senior openly gay executive there, the way he describes himself is always as a computer scientist. And he’s used those computer science and biochem chops to navigate his way into the center of the life sciences industry after spending decades on Wall Street… read more

Recursionauts Series: R. Martin Chavez, Ph.D.

Recursion: YouTube
June 1, 2023

In the latest episode of our #Recursionauts series, Martin shares his thoughts on the impact of AI and ML in healthcare & the importance of both data quality and quantity… read more

Anatomy of a financial crisis

Bloomberg News
March 17, 2023

From longtime banking executive R. Martin Chavez: This moment may rhyme with the 2008 GFC, but it rhymes more with the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. “As we keep learning, in case we didn’t learn it the last time,” he said, “banks are all interconnected.”… read more

BANKS ARE ALL INTERCONNECTED: CHAVEZ

Bloomberg Markets: The Close
March 16, 2023

R. Martin Chavez, Sixth Street Partners Vice Chairman & Partner, discusses the latest news on the US bank collapses and Credit Suisse. He speaks with Sonali Basak and Romaine Bostick on Bloomberg Markets: The Close… read more

Attitude 101 empowered by Bentley: Meet the LGBTQ trailblazers changing the world in 2023

www.attitude.co.uk
February, 2023

We’re back again! Attitude 101, empowered by Bentley returns for a third time in 2023 for a chance to shine a light on the work being done by people across our rainbow community… read more

LEADERSHIP MATTERS: MARTY CHAVEZ, PART 2 - INVESTOR, ENTREPRENEUR, & TECHNOLOGIST

Leadership Matters Show
January 10, 2023

On this episode of “Leadership Matters,” Marty Chavez follows on his previous conversation with Alan and expands upon some other key themes of his career, including his time as CEO of Kiodex, the advice he has to offer to entrepreneurs, and why he thoroughly enjoys his work at Sixth Street Partners… read more

LEADERSHIP MATTERS: MARTY CHAVEZ - INVESTOR, ENTREPRENEUR, & TECHNOLOGIST

Leadership Matters Show
November 8, 2022

On this episode of “Leadership Matters,” Marty Chavez joins Alan for a rich discussion about his pioneering career on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. Formerly the CIO and CFO of Goldman Sachs, the current Sixth Street Partner and Vice Chair had a wealth of experience to share with Alan... read more

TECH STRATEGIST: WE’RE GOING TO SEE ‘REALLY MIRACULOUS THINGS WITH AI’

Yahoo! Finance
October 21, 2022

Sixth Street Partner and Vice Chairman Marty Chavez discusses the current state of tech, market volatility, the next big area of innovation, and enabling diversity in large corporations… read more

MARTY CHAVEZ ON HOW SOFTWARE ATE FINANCE

The Julia La Roche Show
October 4th, 2022

Joining Julia La Roche on episode 20 of the podcast is R. Martin (“Marty”) Chavez, a partner and vice chair of Sixth Street Capital and a former Goldman Sachs executive. The episode delves into Chavez’s views on the future of finance, his thesis on how software ate finance, his thoughts on regulating fintech, and the powerful trend of dematerialization… read more

Alphabet Appoints R. Martin “Marty” Chávez to its Board of DirectorS

Alphabet
July 14, 2022

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced that it has appointed R. Martin “Marty” Chávez to its Board of Directors. Mr. Chávez is a respected business leader with extensive experience across finance and technology… read more

Google Parent Alphabet Names Goldman Sachs Veteran to Board

Bloomberg
July 14, 2022

Wall Street veteran Marty Chavez is joining the board of Google parent Alphabet Inc., adding significant finance muscle to the technology giant… read more

I WOULDN’T INVEST IN CRYPTO TODAY, SAYS SIXTH STREET’S MARTY CHAVEZ

Closing Bell, CNBC
May 18, 2022

Marty Chavez, former Goldman Sachs CFO and Sixth Street Partners vice chairman, joins ‘Closing Bell’ to discuss recent cryptocurrency price action, what he is wary to get into and more… read more

Biden Signs Executive Order on Crypto

Bloomberg Technology
Mar 9, 2022

Sixth Street Partners Vice Chairman Marty Chavez joins Bloomberg's Sonali Basak and Emily Chang to give an idea of the institutional sentiment regarding cryptocurrency markets and opportunities as the war in Ukraine continues, and what Biden's Executive Order means for the future of the industry and whether this means we can expect a central bank digital currency anytime soon… read more

Listen: Robert Califf’s FDA return, the future of CRISPR, & another vaccine delay

Statnews.com
Feb 17, 2022

Will there be a new ALS drug this year? What business does Wall Street have with CRISPR? And when can kids get Covid-19 vaccines? We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. …CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna and financier Marty Chavez join us to talk about the future of genome editing and the investments they plan to make in it… read more

CRISPR Co-Founder Jennifer Doudna on Future of Biotech

Bloomberg Technology
Feb 10, 2022

Sixth Street Chief Science Adviser and Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, co-founder of the CRISPR genome editing technology 10 years ago, and Sixth Street Vice Chairman and Partner R. Martin Chavez join Emily Chang to discuss the future of CRISPR and its potential for commercialization… read more

THE IMPACT OF AI IN FINANCIAL SERVICES & BEYOND

Scale Exchange Community
Oct 7, 2021

R. Martin (“Marty”) Chavez, Ph.D., is Partner and Vice Chairman of Sixth Street Partners and former CEO and former CFO of Goldman Sachs. widely renowned as a trailblazer and leader who turned the Wall Street trading business into a software business, during his time at Goldman Sachs. Marty joins Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in a fireside chat to discuss how machine learning is impacting the world of finance and beyond… read more

CHAVEZ: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL CURRENCY

YouTube: Bloomberg Markets and Finance
Sept 24, 2021

Sixth Street Partners Vice Chairman Martin Chavez says it's 'imperative and essential' for the U.S. dollar to become digital. He discusses the potential for the Fed to issue digital currency and what it might mean for the banking system with David Westin on Bloomberg Wall Street Week… read more

2021 Leadership Summit Featuring Marty Chavez and Ruben Navarrette

The Alumni Society
June 15, 2021

The 2021 Leadership Summit featured the session "It Can Be Done: Overcoming the Internal and External Forces That Hold Us Back" with speakers R. Martin (Marty) Chavez, Vice Chairman and Partner, Sixth Street and moderator Ruben Navarrette, Syndicated Columnist, Author, & CEO/Founder of the podcast company, “Navarrette Sonic Podcast Network”… read more

Datavant and Ciox Health Announce Merger, Creating the Largest Neutral and Secure Health Data Ecosystem

Business Wire
June 9, 2021

Datavant, the leader in helping healthcare organizations securely connect their data, and Ciox Health, the leader in clinical data exchange, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to merge the two companies in a transaction valued at $7.0 billion. The combined entity, to be named Datavant, will be the nation’s largest health data ecosystem, enabling patients, providers, payers, health data analytics companies, patient-facing applications, government agencies, and life science companies to securely exchange their patient-level data… read more

CHALLENGING THE EXPONENTIAL AGE THESIS

Real Vision
May 20, 2021

Real Vision co-founder and CEO Raoul Pal welcomes R. Martin Chavez, vice chairman and partner of Sixth Street Partners, for a wide-ranging conversation in which they discuss their differing perspectives relating to Raoul's thesis on The Exponential Age… read more

Former Goldman CFO joins Sixth Street as partner

CNBC
May 3, 2021

Marty Chavez, former Goldman Sachs CFO, will be joining Sixth Street as a partner. He joins ‘Closing Bell’ to discuss his new role and where he sees opportunity in the markets… read more

Marty Chavez Takes On a Top Role at Alan Waxman’s Sixth Street

Bloomberg
May 3, 2021

R. Martin Chavez, a long-time force behind Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s trading and technology architecture, is expanding his role at Alan Waxman’s $50 billion money manager… read more

Goldman Vet Chavez Says the Digital Dollar is a Necessity

Bloomberg Markets
April 8, 2021

Marty Chavez, former Goldman Sachs CFO and senior adviser at Sixth Street Partners, discusses how banks can get better at technology and the future of digital currencies. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Bloomberg: Balance of Power."… read more

PODCAST: How Software Ate Finance — with Martin Chavez

The Prof G Show with Scott Galloway
April 1, 2021

Marty Chavez, a senior advisor to Sixth Street Partners and the former CIO and CFO of Goldman Sachs, shares his ideas around regulating big tech like big banks, and discusses the trends playing out in our financial ecosystem… read more

Marty Chavez Talks Big Tech, Retaining Talent on Wall Street

Bloomberg Markets: The Close
March 26, 2021

R. Martin "Marty" Chavez, senior adviser at Sixth Street Partners and former Goldman Sachs CFO, discusses his call for Big Tech stress tests, his views on dividends and buybacks, and the current culture on Wall Street. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close."… read more

Former Goldman Sachs CFO Marty Chavez on how to regulate big tech like big banks

Yahoo Finance
March 23, 2021

Marty Chavez, Former Goldman Sachs CFO and Sixth Street Partners Senior Advisor, joined Yahoo Finance Live to talk big tech regulation.… read more

Martin Chavez on how to regulate big tech like big banks

The Economist
March 15, 2021

To protect the public, web platforms need to accept rules on business unit separation, data sharing and algorithmic stress tests… read more

Fmr. Goldman Sachs CFO Marty Chavez says the future of fintech is banks

CNBC
March 4, 2021

Walmart has recruited two Goldman Sachs bankers to help launch its new fintech startup. The retail giant is looking for ways to drive revenue. Marty Chavez, senior advisor at Sixth Street Partners and former Goldman Sachs CFO, says he believes the future of fintech will be banks providing the service for consumers..… read more

Wall Street Visionaries Provide Chilling Views on Next Big Risk

Bloomberg.com
January 12, 2021

We asked three executives who’ve spent their careers on the cutting edge of the financial industry what they see coming in 5 to 10 years. Here are their answers.… read more

WHAT APIS MEAN FOR THE NEW SOFTWARE ECONOMY

Datafleets.com
November 11, 2020

In this snippet from his fireside chat with Kenn Cukier, Marty Chavez outlines his view of APIs as the future mode of product delivery and collaboration within and between organizations… read more

Ex-Goldman CFO Chavez on being gay in macho banking: ‘Math was my survival strategy’

Fnlondon.com
August 18, 2020

Marty Chavez has spent five months in lockdown in the mountains of West Massachusetts. However, his trademark beard has not grown to frontiersman proportions. Instead, he is clean-shaven, tanned, relaxed — albeit with more hair than usual… read more

Goldman Sach's former top technologist is joining Block.one's advisory board as chairman

The Block
October 6, 2020

The former chief financial officer and chief technology officer of banking behemoth Goldman Sachs is joining Block.one as chair of its advisory board, according to an announcement Tuesday. Block.one is the firm behind public blockchain EOS.io and its digital currency EOS… read more

RealityEngines.AI rebrands as Abacus.AI, announces Series A funding and general availability of the world’s first autonomous AI service.

Abacus.AI
July 14, 2020

Abacus.AI, formerly RealityEngines.AI, an AI research and AI cloud services company, is announcing today the general availability of the world's first fully autonomous AI service. As part of the launch, the company is open-sourcing 3 novel techniques to de-bias algorithms and is introducing a new model showcase service… read more

Former Goldman CFO breaks down why a digital dollar is better than bitcoin and stablecoins

The Block
July 8, 2020

R. Martin Chavez left his Goldman Sachs office in December after decades of work bringing new technology to Wall Street, most recently as Goldman's CFO, though his career began in Silicon Valley. Now, he's returned to the tech world, where he serves on the boards of health technology firms and has gotten involved in the conversation around the "digital dollar."… read more

Santander appoints three leading technologists to support its strategy and digital transformation

Santander.com
June 30, 2020

R. Martin Chávez to join the board of Banco Santander as independent director, subject to regulatory approval… read more

Eight current Overseers share their unique stories

The Harvard Gazette
June 16, 2020

The Harvard Board of Overseers is one of the University’s two governing boards, working alongside the President and Fellows (also known as the Corporation), Harvard’s principal fiduciary board. Formally created in 1642, the Board of Overseers has for decades included 30 members elected annually by Harvard degree holders to staggered six-year terms... read more 

Notable Financial and Technology Executive R. Martin Chavez Joins Sema4 Board of Directors

Sema4
May 19, 2020

Sema4, a patient-centered health intelligence company, today announced the appointment of prominent Wall Street and technology executive R. Martin Chavez to its Board of Directors. Mr. Chavez most recently served in several senior roles for Goldman Sachs, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and global co-head of the firm’s Securities Division. He was also a member of the firm’s management committee… read more

R. Martin Chavez and Terry-Ann Burrell Join Recursion’s Board of Directors

Business Wire
May 5, 2020

Recursion, a digital biology company industrializing drug discovery, today announced the appointment of former chief financial officer, chief information officer and global co-head of the Securities Division at Goldman Sachs, R. Martin Chavez, and former managing director of J.P. Morgan and now CFO of Beam Therapeutics, Terry-Ann Burrell, to its board of directors, furthering its mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives… read more

Two named to lead Overseers

The Harvard Gazette
May 2, 2020

Martin Chávez ’85, S.M. ’85, an investment banker, computer scientist, and entrepreneur, has been elected president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2020–21 academic year. Beth Karlan ’78, M.D. ’82, a physician and scientist with expertise in cancer genetics and women’s health, will serve as vice chair of the board’s executive committee… read more

R. Martin Chavez Joins Paige’s Board of Directors

PR Web
April 9, 2020

Paige, the leader in computational pathology transforming the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, welcomes Dr. R. Martin Chavez to its board of directors. Chavez joins Paige’s board after recently retiring from Goldman Sachs, where he served 19 years in multiple roles – including CIO, CFO, and Co-Head of Securities… read more

World premiere of yanga

LA Phil
November 2019

Yanga (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from R. Martin Chavez)… read more

Goldman’s Coder-in-Chief Ditches Wall Street for California Sunshine

The Wall Street Journal
September 3, 2019

Martin Chavez began planning his escape from Wall Street in January. Weary of the New York winter, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trading executive retreated to his vacation home in the Berkshires, bought a white board at Target and sketched out his next chapter, named in order of his priorities: Operation Kids, Freedom & Sunshine… read more