Paula B. Madoff
Lead Independent Director, Tradeweb Markets | Advisor, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Ms. Madoff serves as Lead Independent Director to Tradeweb Markets and as Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. She is currently an Advisor to the Goldman Sachs Group (“Goldman”). She has worked for over 30 years in a variety of leadership roles at the firm and was most recently a Partner in Global Markets leading the Interest Rate Products and Mortgages businesses.
She has held additional leadership positions at Goldman, including Co-Chair of the Retirement Committee, overseeing 401(k) and pension plan assets; Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs Mitsui Marine Derivatives Products, L.P.; and was a member of its Securities Division Operating Committee, Firmwide New Activity Committee, GS Bank USA Client and Business Standards, and Counterparty Risk Committees. Before joining Goldman, Ms. Madoff worked in Mergers and Acquisitions at Wasserstein Perella & Co. and in Corporate Finance at Bankers Trust.
Ms. Madoff currently serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Santander Holdings USA Inc. and Santander Bank N.A.; Great-West Lifeco Inc.; KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc.; and Power Corporation of Canada. She previously served on the board of ICE Benchmark Administration where she was also Chair of the ICE LIBOR Oversight Committee; Beacon.io; and Motive Capital Corp I and II. Ms. Madoff is a David Rockefeller Fellow, the President of the Harvard Business School Global Alumni Board, and a member of the Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Women’s Leadership Board.
Ms. Madoff received a B.A. degree in Economics, cum laude, from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.