Kevin W. Kennedy joined The Wallace Foundation’s board of directors in 2004 and was elected chairman in June 2007.

Kennedy is a managing director of Goldman Sachs, where he heads the human capital management division. He is also a member of the management committee and serves as co-chairman of the commitments committee and the partnership committee.

He joined Goldman Sachs in 1974, served as head of corporate finance from 1988 until 1994 and then became head of the Americas group in the investment banking division. In 2001, he was appointed to head the firm’s newly formed human capital management division. He was named partner in 1984 and managing director in 1996.

Kennedy is a life trustee of Hamilton College and a former chairman of its board of directors. He is a managing director and secretary/treasurer of the board of the Metropolitan Opera, a trustee of the New York Public Library, an honorary trustee of the Chewonki Foundation and an advisor to the investment committee of The Kohlberg Foundation.

He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1974 and a B.A. in art from Hamilton College in 1970. He also served in the U.S. Army National Guard. Kennedy resides in New York with his wife, Karen, a pediatrician. They have two grown children, Coleman and Will.