Gregory Palm

Gregory Kenneth Palm (born September 25, 1948) is an American lawyer and businessman. He was the executive vice president of Goldman Sachs. In 2019, Palm retired from Goldman Sachs as its general counsel and took a role as its senior advisor. Bloomberg valued his net worth at more than $500 million in 2019.

Early life and education Palm was born in Binghamton, New York, on September 25, 1948. His father was an electrician. Palm attended Chenango Valley High School and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in economics in 1970. He attended college on a scholarship and was awarded a fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He was admitted to the bar of New York in 1977 and to the bar of the District of Columbia in 1978. Powell later recommended him to the white-shoe firm of Sullivan & Cromwell.

Palm was made a member of Goldman Sach's management committee in 1999. After the 2008 financial crisis, he was paid $38.3 million by the company to purchase stakes. He played a significant role in its $550 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 15, 2010. As of 2019, Palm owned more than a million shares in the stock of the investment firm, more than any other person.

Palm is a life member of the American Law Institute.