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Donna Winston '85 and Gregory Ferrero '84 have both earned promotions recently at Goldman Sachs.

Winston is the global head of equities and FICC human capital management (HCM). She joined the firm in 1987 in the fixed-income division, where she spent 14 years in sales and trading. Winston moved to HCM in 2000 as a recruiter. From 2001 to 2004, she served in various equities and FICC divisional recruiting leadership roles. In 2004, she became the Americas head of equities and FICC HCM. In 2005, Winston was named the group's global co-head. She was named a managing director in 2006. Winston earned her St. Lawrence degree in fine arts and is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She has been active as an alumna, serving on the Alumni Executive Council and as a fund-raising volunteer. Winston is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy's Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island.

Ferrero manages the Florida and Latin American private wealth management businesses. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1990 as an investment professional in the New York office, managing portfolios for a select group of individuals and families for 17 years before relocating to Miami. He became a managing director in 2006. Ferrero is on the board of the Pear Tree Point School Foundation in Darien, CT, and is on St. Lawrence's Alumni Executive Council and national major gifts committee. He earned his St. Lawrence degree in chemistry, a bachelor's degree chemical engineering from Columbia University and the MBA from Harvard Business School.

Posted: January 18, 2007