Mike Mayo, who leads large-cap bank research at Wells Fargo, says John Waldron gives off the affect of an English Lit professor from the Midwest. That’s an improbable description for a longtime Wall Street exec—even more so for one who has spent 26 years climbing the ranks of Goldman Sachs, and who may soon ascend to the CEO job at the storied investment bank.
“What I find interesting about John Waldron is he just presents as one of the most non–Wall Street people that I’ve met, even though he heads the epitome of a Wall Street firm,” observed Mayo. He added, in reference to the bank’s current CEO, that in some ways one could describe Waldron as the “anti–David Solomon.”
