R. Martin Chavez
About R. Martin Chavez
Marty is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, investor, and risk manager. He is a partner and vice chairman of Sixth Street, a private-capital investing platform with over $75 B under management. Prior to joining Sixth Street, he held multiple roles as a partner, Management Committee member, and senior leader of Goldman Sachs, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and global co-head of the Firm's largest and most complex business, the Securities Division. For the past 35 years, Marty has used data, math, software, and machine learning to solve hard problems for clients and stakeholders. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Marty was the CEO and co-founder of Kiodex, acquired by Sungard in 2004, and Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Quorum Software Systems. He holds an A.B. (1985) magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences and an S.M. (1985) in Computer Science from Harvard, and a Ph.D. (1990) in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford (Architectures and Algorithms for Probabilistic Expert Systems). Marty serves on the board of directors of Alphabet Inc.; Recursion Pharmaceuticals, where he is non-executive chairman; the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; the Stanford Medicine Board of Fellows; and the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Previously, he served on the board of directors of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), Paige.ai, PNM Resources, and Sema4. A passionate patron of the arts and education, he has served as a member of the board of amFAR (the Foundation for AIDS Research), the Friends of the High Line, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Harvard Board of Overseers (where he served as president in 2020-21), and the Santa Fe Opera. In the spring of 2020, Marty created and taught GSBGEN 544: "How Software Ate Finance" at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Beyond finance, Marty has long held a passion for converging the life sciences and software. Since retiring from Goldman Sachs, Marty serves as an advisor to multiple startups and projects, including Abacus.ai, Cambrian Biopharma, Ketch, Earli, and The Mount Sinai Institute for Health Equity Research. Marty holds a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, resides in the Berkshires, and is the proud father of two.