Robert is Managing Director and Global Vice Chairman, Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs International. Previously he was senior partner in the Global Healthcare Group, co-head of the Global Healthcare Group, a member of the Financial Institutions and Global Finance Groups. Robert joined Goldman Sachs in 1988. He was named managing director in 1997 and partner in 2000. Robert earned a BSE from Princeton University in 1983, an MS in Chemical Engineering in 1985 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a PhD and MBA from MIT in 1988.