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Muneer A. Satter

Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs Foundation & Goldman Sachs Gives; Chairman, Satter Family Foundation

Muneer A. Satter manages Satter Investment Management (SIM), a private investment firm and family office. SIM has significant investments in healthcare companies. He also manages the Satter Foundation, a private family foundation (which has made $65 million dollars of grants since its inception). Mr. Satter is a retired partner at Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner of the firm for sixteen years. He spent his career in the Merchant Banking Division which manages the firm’s private investments. When he joined the Merchant Bank in 1988, it had $250 million under management. When he retired twenty-four years later, it had $130 billion of assets under management. Mr. Satter started up and co-headed the firm’s Merchant Banking
Group in Europe. He later returned to New York and was the global head of the Mezzanine Group, which he built, raising and managing over $30 billion of assets. The mezzanine fund had a compound annual return of 12.9% for the sixteen years until Mr. Satter retired in 2012. This compares to 5.6% for the S&P 500 and 7.4% for the high yield index. He was also a senior member of the Merchant Banking Investment Committee which made investment decisions involving companies with a total enterprise value of several hundred billion dollars. He was chairman of the Risk Committee for the Merchant Banking Division, which at the time had over $80 billion of assets under management.

Mr. Satter is vice chairman of the Board of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and GS Gives, where he is also chairman of the Investment Committee overseeing $1.2 billion of assets. He is a member of the Board of Northwestern University where he was previously chairman of the Finance Committee. He is also a member and on the Executive Committee of the Board of the Navy SEAL Foundation. He is a member of the Board of the Northwestern Medical Group (over 1,000 doctors and over $1 billion of revenue). He is on the Board of Advisors of Accelerate Institute (which provides leadership training for school principals) and on the Board of Trustees of the US Olympic and Paralympic Foundation. He was formerly on the Board of World Business Chicago (chaired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former co-chairman of Room to Read (which builds 2,000 libraries and schools per year in developing countries). He is a former member of the Board of the Nature Conservancy where he was chairman of the Finance Committee overseeing a $1.8 billion endowment. He is a former member of the Advisory Council of The Elders founded by Richard Branson, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Mr. Satter is a director of Annexon which is a complement cascade pathway company focused on autoimmune and neurologic diseases. He is also a director of Alzheon which is currently the only oral anti-amyloid treatment in Phase 3 testing for Alzheimer’s disease.

Mr. Satter received a B.A. from Northwestern University, and a JD/MBA from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He lives in Chicago, IL with his wife, Kristen, and their five daughters.