Harold Hope

Global Head of Secondaries Strategies at Goldman Sachs Alternatives

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Harold Hope is global head of Vintage Strategies, one of the world's largest secondary fund managers, in the External Investing Group (XIG) within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He is also chair of the XIG Vintage Funds Committee and a member of the XIG Real Estate Strategies Investment Committee and the XIG GP Strategies Investment Committee.

Harold joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as an associate in Leveraged Finance and Corporate Finance within the Investment Banking Division and moved to the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (now XIG) private equity business in 2001. He was named managing director in 2006 and partner in 2016. Prior to joining the firm, Harold worked as a financial analyst at the investment banking boutique Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co. Harold earned a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review.