Kevin W. Kennedy joined The Wallace Foundation's board of directors in 2004 and was elected chairman in June 2007.
Kennedy retired as a managing director of Goldman Sachs in 2011. During his career he served on the firm's management committee, chaired the partnership committee and co-chaired the commitments 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. In 2008 he became head of Goldman Sachs' business in Latin America. He was named partner in 1984.
He is a managing director and president and CEO of the board of the Metropolitan Opera. Kennedy is a life trustee of Hamilton College and a former chairman of its board of directors. He is a trustee of the New York Public Library and an honorary trustee of the Chewonki Foundation.
He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1974 and a B.A. in art from Hamilton College in 1970. Kennedy resides in New York with his wife, Karen, a pediatrician.