[2] He attended Collegiate School[1] and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University, a J.D.
[2] In 1998, he joined Goldman Sachs's Financial Institutions Group, focusing on market structure, brokerage, and trading.
He became chief of staff to then President and COO Lloyd Blankfein in 2005, advising on the merger of the New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago.
[7][8] In April 2018, he was hired as chief executive of the London Stock Exchange Group, having worked as a banker for Goldman Sachs for twenty years.
[5] His appointment led to some surprise and humor due to confusion with the actor David Schwimmer of Friends.