Roy chairs the Executive Committee.

Roy was previously Vice Chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., a member of the Executive Committee and head of the Equities Division.  He joined the firm in 1967 in Securities Sales and in 1976 became a General Partner of the Firm.

He is past Chairman of the Securities Industry Association, and was a member of the Senior Advisors Group to the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion.  Roy recently served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Executive Committee of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc.  He serves as a Trustee of the American Red Cross in Greater New York and is a Director of the Brookdale Foundation, Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc. and Mack-Cali Realty Corporation.  Roy is also on the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science.  He presently is Chair of the Investment Committee of the University of Massachusetts Foundation.  Roy is currently Chairman of the Board of Governors of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  He is a member of the Executive Committee of UJA-Federation.

Roy received a B.S. from Lowell Technological Institute in 1958 and served in the United States Army.  He received The Distinguished Alumni Award in June of 1994 from the University of Massachusetts.  In 1999, he received a Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  In 2002, he received the President’s Medal Award from the University of Massachusetts.