Gary D. Cohn is Vice Chairman of IBM, working in partnership with IBM’s Executive Leadership Team on a wide range of business initiatives. Mr. Cohn is also Co-Chairman, with Clifton S. Robbins, of Cohn Robbins Holding Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Mr. Cohn served as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council from January 2017 until April 2018. As President Donald Trump’s chief economic advisor, Mr. Cohn managed the administration’s economic policy agenda and led the successful effort to grow the U.S. economy, create jobs, and increase wages through tax and regulatory reform. Before serving in the White House, Mr. Cohn was President and Chief Operating Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from 2006-2016. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1990 and held a number of other leadership positions. He was a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Cohn invests in cybersecurity, blockchain infrastructure, regulatory technology, and medical technology. He serves on the corporate boards of Abyrx, Gro Intelligence, Indago, Nanopay, and Starling and is the Chairman of Pallas Advisors. He is a member of the Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee (SRAC) of the FDIC. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of NYU Langone Health and is Chairman of the Advisory Board for the NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital. In 2019 Mr. Cohn was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
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