Steven Mandis

American investment banker

Steven George Mandis

Born| 1970

Chicago, Illinois

Alma mater| University of Chicago
Columbia University
Occupation(s)| Investor and business executive
Notable work| What Happened to Goldman Sachs
The Real Madrid Way
What Happened to Serie A
Awards| Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Steven George Mandis (born in 1970) is an American investor and the founder of Kalamata Capital. He is an adjunct associate professor in finance and economics at Columbia University Business School. Previously, he worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup[1] and as a senior advisor to McKinsey. He is the author of three books: What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and its Unintended Consequences, The Real Madrid Way: How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet, and What Happened to Serie A: The Rise, Fall and Signs of Revival.

## Early life and education[edit]

Mandis was born in Chicago, Illinois as one of three children to his parents, Greek emigres George and Theoni. He spent his childhood in Chicago and Grand Rapids, Michigan where he attended Forest Hills Central High School.[2] In 1992 he received an A.B. from the University of Chicago.[2][3] After a 16-year career on Wall Street he enrolled at Columbia University, where he received an M.A. in Museum Anthropology in 2010, and an M.Phil in Sociology in 2013, and a Ph.D. in Sociology.[4]

## Business career[edit]

Mandis began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1992[5] as a mergers-and-acquisitions banker.[6] He later joined the proprietary trading department,[6] where he helped build the Special Situations Proprietary Trading Group (SSG)[7][8] and worked under Henry Paulson.[9]

In 2004 Mandis left Goldman to join Halcyon Structured Asset Management, an alternative asset management company.[7] He remained at Halcyon until 2008, and later worked as a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company.[10] He then worked as an executive at Citigroup in various roles including chief of staff to its president.[11]

In 2013 Mandis founded Kalamata Capital, a small business finance company that he funded with his own money, naming it after the area of Greece his parents are from.[12]

Since leaving Wall Street in 2012,[11] Mandis has taught at Columbia Business School as an adjunct professor.[12][13]

## Books[edit]

In 2013 Mandis's book What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and its Unintended Consequences was published by Harvard Business Press, based upon his PhD dissertation at Columbia.[5][6][14] It won the 2014 Gold Axiom Business Book Award for Corporate History.[15]

In 2016 Mandis's book The Real Madrid Way: How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet was published by BenBella Books.[16][17] The book was the subject of a documentary by BBC Radio World Service,[18] and won the 2017 International Book Award for Sports.[19]

In 2018 Mandis's book What Happened to Serie A: The Rise, Fall and Signs of Revival, a history of the Serie A Italian professional football league, was published by Arena Sport.[20]

## Personal life[edit]

Mandis lives in New York City.[6] He was awarded an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2012.[21]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Wogan, Peter (2017). Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis: A True Story about Risk, Entrepreneurship, Immigration, and Latino-Anglo Friendship. Springer. ISBN 9783319522647.
2. ^ a b "Author of 'What Happened to Goldman Sachs' recalls his days at Forest Hills Central High School". MLive.com. 17 October 2013. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
3. ^ "Campus Life:; A Different Kind Of Education: Going on Patrol". The New York Times. 1990-05-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
4. ^ "Alumni Profile: Steven Mandis". gsas.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
5. ^ a b Mary Kissel (10 October 2013). "Review: What Happened to Goldman Sachs - WSJ". WSJ.
6. ^ a b c d Lattman, Peter (30 September 2013). "An Ex-Trader, Now a Sociologist, Looks at the Changes in Goldman". The New York Times.
7. ^ a b Atlas, Riva D (3 February 2005). "'Goldman Sachs' on a Resume Gives Continuing Rewards". New York Times.
8. ^ "Citi Taps Goldman Vet As Institutional Clients Vice Chair". The Wall Street Journal. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
9. ^ Spiro, Leah Nathans, Gary Silverman. (25 January 1999). "The Coup at Goldman". Bloomberg Businessweek.`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
10. ^ Randall Smith. "Citi Taps Goldman Vet As Institional Clients Vice Chair". Wall Street Journal.
11. ^ a b Justin Baer (27 September 2013). "In Book on Goldman, Former Trader Hedges His Bets". WSJ.
12. ^ a b Zeke Faux & Max Abelson (10 July 2014). "How a Goldman Sachs Ethicist Became a High-Rate Lender". Bloomberg.com.
13. ^ Columbia Business School. "Steven George Mandis". Columbia Business School Directory. `{{cite web}}`: `|author=` has generic name (help)
14. ^ "'What Happened to Goldman Sachs' by Steven Mandis". Financial Times. 9 October 2013.
15. ^ http://www.axiomawards.com/Axiom_Results_Listing_2014.pdf [bare URL PDF]
16. ^ "How the magic of Real Madrid could rub off on Goldman Sachs". Financial Times. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
17. ^ "Real Madrid lure enough to keep Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale". ESPNFC.com. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
18. ^ "Inside Real Madrid, The Documentary - BBC World Service". BBC. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
19. ^ "International Book Awards - Honoring Excellence in Independent & Mainstream Publishing". www.internationalbookawards.com. Archived from the original on 2017-05-29. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
20. ^ "Steven Mandis presenta a Trigoria "What happened to Serie A"". soccermagazine.it. 15 September 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
21. ^ "A TRIBUTE TO THE 2012 ELLIS ISLAND MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS". congress.gov. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

## External links[edit]

* Steven Mandis profile at Columbia Business School