Robert Goodman Named Global Head of Private Equity and Real Assets for Sterling Stamos

MENLO PARK, Calif., May 8 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Robert Goodman has been named Global Head of Private Equity and Real Assets for Sterling Stamos Capital Management. He is responsible for the management, fundraising, operating, and investment activities for the firm’s Private Equity and Real Assets platform. The announcement was made today by Peter Stamos, Chairman and CEO of Sterling Stamos. In making the announcement, Mr. Stamos said, "I have known Robert Goodman for over two decades, going back to our days together at McKinsey. He brings a tremendous level of credibility to our Private Equity and Real Assets platform and is someone for whom I have the highest professional respect and personal regard.”

Prior to joining Sterling Stamos, Mr. Goodman was Vice Chairman and member of the Global Operating Committee of Deutsche Asset Management. He has had a distinguished career at leading investment banking and private equity firms including N. M. Rothschild & Sons, where he was Global Head of Insurance Investment Banking, and Lazard Freres, where he held a similar position. He has also been Executive Director of Financial Institutions Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, and had been a Principal and Co-Head of the European Insurance Group at McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Goodman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College with a BA degree. He received an MA from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Mr. Goodman is married with two children.

Sterling Stamos is a private investment firm that invests globally using an endowment approach across five asset classes: fixed income, equity, absolute return, real assets, and private equity. With principal offices in New York City and Menlo Park, California, Sterling Stamos has over $6 billion in assets under management.