When Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein hands off to president David Solomon in the coming months, it will be the investment bank’s first change in leadership since 2006. During the intervening years, Blankfein led the firm through the financial crisis and the subsequent fallout surrounded by a coterie of loyalists, some of whom worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the CEO at commodities trader J. Aron & Co.
Solomon's management team will differ from his predecessor's.