CNBC Changemakers

Asahi Pompey

Company: Goldman Sachs
Title: Global Head of the Office of Corporate Engagement, Chair of the Urban Investment Group, President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and Goldman Sachs Gives
Industry: Financial Services

Standout achievement in 2025: Expanded Goldman Sachs' major philanthropic initiatives, including the 10,000 Small Businesses, 10,000 Women, and the One Million Black Women economic opportunity efforts.

Pompey, a Guyanese immigrant who grew up in public housing in Brooklyn, attended high school in Japan, and was trained as a lawyer, served as the bank's chief compliance officer in her rise to the management committee and is the senior-most Black leader at Goldman Sachs.

In 2025, Pompey was named Chair of Goldman Sachs' Urban Investment Group, a $23 billion community development portfolio investing in affordable housing, community revitalization, infrastructure, and economic development. Collectively, the Urban Investment Group and the Office of Corporate Engagement have deployed over $27 billion in impact investing and charitable giving.

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