Adam Clark

Adam Clark serves as chairman, chief executive officer and president of the Goldman Sachs Trust Company, N.A. He is also a member of the Strategic Wealth Advisory Team (SWAT), where he provides tax and wealth planning education focused on gift and estate tax planning, income tax planning and philanthropic planning. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2009 and was named managing director in 2012. Prior to joining the firm, Adam was a managing director at WTAS, LLC, where he led the firm's international private client group. Earlier in his career, he worked as a tax consultant in private client groups of Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. Adam has extensive experience in the domestic and international tax area, having advised high net worth clients with multi-jurisdictional tax and financial interests, including non-US investments and families of multiple citizenship and residence. He has also helped many families to satisfy their US tax reporting obligations with respect to interests in no-US structures, such as offshore trusts and foreign investment vehicles. Adam serves on the advisory council for Fiver Children's Foundation, a nonprofit that provides a youth development program to children from underserved communities throughout New York City and Central New York. Adam earned an LLB in English law and German law from the University of Liverpool and achieved the BGB (German civil law) from the University of Wurzburg, Germany.