When Stacy Sonnenberg started at Goldman Sachs in 2003 one client gave her pause: the New York Yankees. As the former chief of technical services with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation—owner of Yankee Stadium—she had served as landlord to the fabled baseball club for three years. “I called the Yankees,” she recalls, “And told them, ‘I was your landlord before, would you be okay if I became part of your banking team?’”
They accepted, and at the age of 32, Sonnenberg helped her old tenant make the financial arrangements for what would become the Yankees' new $2.3 billion stadium. The deal was the first of more than 30 new stadium deals that helped her solidify her current title as Goldman Sachs’ global head of sports finance, including the 2010 opening of Met Life Stadium—home to the NFL’s Giants and Jets franchises—and the new Tennessee Titans stadium scheduled to open in 2027.
