Marianna Lopert-Schaye

Strategy work aligned with key business growth initiatives. Leads strategic investments and partnerships aligned to divisional priorities.

GS Growth is the team responsible for late stage venture investing and growth equity at GS. As part of the broader expansion of the Alternatives investing platform, GS Growth is the consolidation of several top tier investing teams at GS including the team formerly known as the Principal Strategic Investments team.

The Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) team was the global team responsible for evaluating and making early stage investments into financial technology and enterprise technology companies at Goldman Sachs with a strategic nexus to the broader GS business. PSI made both minority investments into technologies that can be implemented internally to enhance the firm’s client offering and technology infrastructure as well as being heavily involved in spearheading digital strategy and transformation at the firm. We partnered with the Securities Division Sales and Trading businesses, Technology division, Investment Management, Operations and divisional senior management across the firm to better understand the needs of these businesses, their clients and their opportunities for growth.

I joined the Structuring and Marketing team associated with the firm’s centralized funding desk, Global Liquidity Products (GLP) in 2013. This role deepened my knowledge of trading inventory, liquidity risk management, regulatory capital and liquidity considerations, portfolio benefits of a cross-asset secured funding book, debt deal structuring, collateral management, balance sheet optimization and sourcing cash in secured format from major financial institutions.

I started out in the FICC Sales and Structuring business in Sydney, spending 3.5 years developing a broad knowledge base of cross-asset derivative product. Covering clients and building productive and profitable relationships with them was the highlight of the FICC Sales role, as well as developing a solid understanding of the varied derivative suite across asset classes. This role included responsibility for covering clients and daily coverage including interest rates and FX ideas, regular client interaction and meetings with a broad investor base including boutique asset managers, insurers, CIOs, private banks and Treasury.

The program provides intriguing insights into corporate governance, giving directors and C-suite executives the knowledge they need to be high-performing board members that adds significant value to the company, acquiring the skills to more easily collaborate, lead, and motivate each other and management.

Cumulative GPA (Honours) = 4.00 Awarded Faculty of Business Honours Scholarship, UTS and School of Finance & Economics Honours Scholarship, UTS Economics major, Honours Thesis "Departures from Rational Expectations in New Keynesian Inflation Equations"