Ryan L. Newman ('01 Economics)

2025 Smeal Distinguished Achievement Award

Ryan L. Newman is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he co-founded and co-leads a private wealth management team, managing in excess of $13 billion on behalf of Fortune 500 executives, Forbes 400 families, entrepreneurs, family offices and foundations and endowments.

He is a member of the PWM Top Advisors and PWM Advisors Council, representing the top 10% of advisors globally at Goldman Sachs. Newman has also designed and led a week of new advisor training globally, each summer since 2011. He joined Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst in 2001 and was named a Managing Director in 2019.

Newman is a graduate of the Smeal College of Business, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics, with honors from the Schreyer Honors College in 2001, and served as Student Marshal for Economics during graduation.

Newman is the host of the Invent Penn State podcast, Dare to Disrupt, which he helped launch, and has achieved over 50,000 downloads. The podcast interviews successful Penn State Alumni who are innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders, and the stories behind their success. At Penn State, Newman also serves on the External Advisory Board of the Schreyer Honors College and is a frequent contributor to the Smeal College of Business Wall Street Bootcamp, having mentored countless Smeal students with an interest in finance. Ryan was awarded the Alumni Achievement Award in 2011, and was named an Alumni Fellow in 2023.

Ryan met his wife Meredith ’01, at the age of 11. Together, they have two children, Bennett and Eleanor.