The Goldman Sachs power players behind Lloyd Blankfein

Chavez is the person tasked with leading Goldman Sachs' technology efforts, and he led the development of the firm's own programming language for risk calculations.

He also breaks the mold of a typical Wall Street executive. A onetime tech startup founder, he is part of a small group of senior Latino executives at Goldman; just 3.5% of the firm's senior officials and managers identify as Hispanic or Latino.

When he joined the bank in 1993, he was one of the first openly gay employees. He sports a sleeve of tattoos.

Cooper is one of only two women on the list, and is arguably one of the most high-profile women on Wall Street.

Before taking over human capital management in 2008, Cooper led a number of businesses within the securities division, including the energy sales group, futures business, and the commodities business in Europe and Asia.

A graduate of Harvard and Northwestern's MBA program, Cooper grew up in New York City with four siblings. As a child, she wanted to go into fashion, according to a Forbes profile, and dreamed of opening a boutique shop on Madison Avenue called "Classics."

Cooper recently wrote a candid op-ed about race in the workplace in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.

She joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 and made partner in 2000. She's been an executive vice president since 2011 and sits on the management committee, and is vice chair of the partnership committee.

London-based Daffey is co-COO of equities with Paul Russo, with the former sales specialist complementing Russo's trading background.

Daffey joined Goldman Sachs back in 1994, making partner in 2002, and has previously headed global equities sales and head of fixed income and foreign exchange sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Back in 2008, he was described as the "unofficial gatekeeper" to a $1 million fantasy football league, and he also features in Greg Smith's book Why I Left Goldman Sachs, where he has described as a "rising star" and a "social genius." New York Magazine called him the "the moral hero of the book."

With Russo, he runs a business that generated $5.3 billion in revenues in the first nine months of the year, putting it on a par with the fixed income, currencies and commodities unit.

Ealet joined the firm as a commodities trader in 1991 and made partner in 2000. Before becoming global cohead of securities in 2012, she was global head of commodities. She is sometimes called the "Queen of Commodities."

Though Ealet tends to avoid public attention, she is an advocate for promoting women in finance.

She was once thought of as a potential candidate for CEO, but has since taken more of a backseat, as the fixed income, currencies, and commodities business, which is her area of expertise, has become less of a revenue producer for the firm.

Ealet sits on the management, European management, firmwide risk committees, among others. A French citizen, she was granted the insignia of Chevalier in the Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur in 2015.

Esposito, who is based in London, is chief strategy officer of the securities division and cohead of global fixed income, currencies, and commodities sales.

He was promoted to those roles earlier this year from his position as cohead of the global financing group. The promotion came during a period of "extraordinary change" for the industry, according to the internal memo written at the time. He was tasked with growing the firm's client franchise.

Before that, he led the financing group for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and served as COO of the investment banking division.

Esposito's brothers are bankers, too — one at Goldman Sachs, and the other at Morgan Stanley. His father was CFO of Chase Manhattan from 1987 to 1991.

Esposito, who joined the firm in 1995 and made partner in 2006, sits on the firmwide risk and securities division executive and operating committees. He was named to the management committee in December 2015.

Gmelich started out at Chase, moving to Salomon Brothers, and then Goldman Sachs in 1998.

He previously headed US credit trading and mortgage trading, and runs a business that ranks as one of the best on Wall Street. He joined the Goldman Sachs management committee in 2014 alongside Michael Daffey and Paul Russo.

Gmelich is reportedly a strong advocate for promoting women on Wall Street. His wife is a former mortgage bond trader and his sister also works on the Street, according to a profile in The Glasshammer.

Gnodde will take over as the sole CEO of Goldman Sachs International when Sherwood leaves the firm in January. He is also cohead of the investment bank, along with David Solomon and John Waldron.

He is known for advising on the Indian steel giant Mittal's $33 billion deal for Arcelor in 2006.

Gnodde joined the firm in London in 1987 and made partner in 1998. He served on the partnership committee from 1999 to 2004, and has served on the management committee since 2003.

Gnodde played an important role in building Goldman's mergers-and-acquisitions franchise in Europe, before moving to Asia to work in Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and help secure access to the local Chinese securities markets.

Back in London, he became co-CEO of GSI in 2006 and cohead of the investment banking division in 2011.

Hitchner, a former lieutenant commander and naval aviator in the US Navy, started out as a summer associate at Goldman Sachs in 1991, joining the corporate finance department a year later.

He went on to become a founding member of the healthcare banking group in 1995, eventually rising to be global head of the healthcare banking group and global cohead of the technology, media and telecom group.

He moved to his new role in Asia in 2013, and cochairs the Asia Pacific Management Committee with Masanori Mochida, president of Goldman Sachs Japan.

Goldman Sachs ranked joint third for investment bank revenue in Asia Pacific in the first six months of the year, according to Coalition, equal with Morgan Stanley.

Lane coheads the investment management division — a business that has been posting strong growth — with Tim O'Neill.

He joined the bank back in 1996, making partner in 2002, and was COO of the investment management division before getting the call up to cohead the business in 2011. The IMD business had $1.35 trillion in assets under supervision at the end of the third quarter, a record high, after posting $14 billion in inflows in the third quarter.

The business has generated $4.2 billion in revenue over the first nine months of the year.

Lemkau was promoted to Goldman Sachs' inner circle in December after a speedy rise up the bank's ranks. The business he leads has been crushing it, topping the league tables for the first nine months of the year with a 24.8% market share, according to data from Dealogic.

He has held a bunch of top roles at the bank across regions and different industry groups, and was also COO of the investment-banking division for a time, a role usually reserved for those destined for the top at Goldman Sachs.

Lemkau is from a finance family — his father worked at Merrill Lynch for a long time, his brother also works at Goldman Sachs, and his sister works at JPMorgan.

He has also been known to hang out with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Nachmann has had a big 12 months, joining the management committee in December, and adding responsibility for Latin America to his financing group role earlier this year.

Nachmann's financing group houses equity and debt capital markets and the bank's loan business. The bank ranked No. 3 in the equity capital-markets revenue rankings in the first nine months of the year, according to Dealogic, and fifth by debt market revenue.

Nachmann joined Goldman Sachs in 1994 in the corporate-finance department. He made partner in 2004. Before his current position, he was cohead of global natural resources.

O'Neill joined Goldman Sachs in 1985 and made partner five years later. As global cohead of Investment Management, he also sits on the management committee.

He and his cohead, Eric Lane, were behind Goldman's March 2016 acquisition of Honest Dollar, the financial technology company that helps small businesses establish retirement savings accounts for employees.

:Together, we have the potential to help millions of people achieve their investing goals," the coheads said at the time.

On a Goldman Sachs podcast last year, O'Neill advocated for the importance of active investing, as opposed to passive investing, which has boomed in recent years.

"The problem for passive is that its size, at a certain point, may be too much for the market to handle — and it's also all on autopilot," he said. "So in terms of the size, a market needs both active and passive investing because if everybody's a passive investor, there's no one to buy from."

Russo is a trader by training. He joined the firm in 1989 as a summer associate, and full-time in 1990. He spent time in Hong Kong, London, and New York.

Together with Daffey, he runs a business that generated $5.3 billion in revenues in the first nine months of the year, putting it on a par with the fixed income, currencies and commodities unit.

Before becoming co-COO of equities, Russo was head of US equities trading and head of global equities one delta trading. He made partner in 2000 and sits on the firmwide risk and securities division executive committees. He joined the management committee at the same time as Daffey and Gmelich.

A Buffalo, New York, native, Russo is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon with an MBA from the University of Chicago. He met his future wife, Allison Goldberg, in his junior year of college.

Salame joined Goldman Sachs in New York from Citigroup in 1996 and made partner in 2000. He became cohead of the global emerging markets debt group that year.

Salame spent nine years in London, from 2002 to 2011, and took over his current role as global cohead of securities in 2008. Salame serves on the management committee, chairs the partnership committee, and cochairs the firmwide investment policy committee.

Salame has been a big advocate for the LGBT community in the workplace. He graduated from Brown University, where he played on the varsity tennis team for his freshman year and part of his sophomore year. He's still an avid tennis player in the finance tennis community. He began his career at Citicorp in his native Ecuador, according to Brown.

Scherr is the man behind Goldman Sachs' foray in to the digital banking business.

He joined the bank back in 1993 as an associate in the financial institutions group, moving in to fixed income, currencies and commodities three years later. He then moved back in to banking, eventually becoming global head of the financing group, the unit that houses the equity and debt capital markets businesses, for six years from 2008 to 2014.

He was named head of strategy in 2014, and then took responsibility for Goldman Sachs Bank earlier this year.

Solomon has been cohead of investment banking in New York since 2006. Before that, he was global head of the financing group. He played an important role in revamping the investment bank's junior banker policies in 2015 to fast-track top performers to promotion, encourage mobility, and replace some tasks with technology.

Solomon joined the firm as a partner in 1999 after stints with Bear Stearns, Drexel Burnham, and Salomon Brothers. He is a member of the management committee and cochairs the investment banking divisions' executive committee.

Solomon once gave life-changing career advice to Clippers guard J.J. Redick.

"What differentiates David from a lot of bankers is he’s a great leader and manager," Alan Schwartz, the former CEO of Bear Stearns and now executive chairman at Guggenheim Partners, told Reuters in 2011. "A lot of people are just practitioners, but he knows how to inspire, manage and lead other professionals."

In a less traditional path to Wall Street than many of his peers, Solomon skipped the Ivy League and studied political science at Hamilton College in upstate New York. He has said that he values his liberal arts education for the communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills it afforded him.

Varadhan is the most recent addition to the triumvirate at the top of the securities business, becoming cohead of securities in 2014 alongside Pablo Salame and Isabelle Ealet.

He joined Goldman Sachs in swaps trading in 1998, making managing director two years later and partner two years after that. At the time, he was just 29, making him one of Goldman Sach's youngest ever partners.

He held roles across rates, currencies, emerging markets and commodities, before becoming global head of macro trading in 2012.

He moved to London in 2015. His father, Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan, is a prize-winning mathematician. His brother, Gopal, was a trader at Cantor Fitzgerald and died in the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks.

Waldron, like many on this powerlist, was made partner in 2002, when he coheaded the media and entertainment group.

He then coheaded leveraged finance and the financial sponsors group before becoming global head of client coverage for the investment banking division.

He has worked on transactions including Silver Lake's deal for Skype, and Blackstone's purchase of SeaWorld, according to The New York Times, and he worked on the split of 21st Century Fox and New Corp.

He was promoted to his current role in 2014, working alongside Richard Gnodde and David Solomon, when John S. Weinberg stepped down.