Recorded from our event Black Talent in Banking 2025, this session provides practical advice and tools to enhance your chances of securing a career in finance.
Goldman Sachs representatives Akua Gilfillian and Jonathan Reid explained how to develop key skills, gain industry experience, and position yourself effectively for roles in an investment bank.
Watch as our guest speakers draw from their experiences at university, including the internships, opportunities, and experiences they undertook that helped ensure career success.
Meet your hosts
Akua Gilfillian, Vice President in Alternatives Capital Formation
Akua is an Executive Director in the Client Solutions Group, specialising in Private Credit within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2023, Akua worked within the Investor Relations team at Permira Credit for five years.
Before that, Akua spent three years at Pantheon Ventures, focused on portfolio strategy across fund of fund portfolios. Akua earned a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from The University of Edinburgh in 2015.
Jonathan Reid, Vice President in UK Institutional Sales
Jonathan is an Executive Director and Head of Regions for the UK and the Channel Islands at Goldman Sachs Asset Management Third Party Wealth. He is responsible for developing relationships with third-party distributors across the the UK.
Jonathan cultivates strategic partnerships to expand Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s footprint and drive growth. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2019. Before this, he worked at Deutsche Bank in Private Wealth Management, which he joined in 2013.
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This session was recorded in March 2025.
