Our roster of Wall Street rising stars, from 2017 to 2024
- Each year, Business Insider highlights Wall Street’s rising stars.
- These are up-and-comers in investment banking, trading, and investing.
- All are 35 or younger. Check out our lists over the years.
For the past eight years, Business Insider’s finance reporters have tapped their contacts to put together a list of who to watch on Wall Street.
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We’ve received recommendations from bosses, colleagues, recruiters, and financial industry experts to create our annual feature. To be eligible, nominees must be based in the US, 35 or younger, and stand out among their peers. The editors make the final decisions.
Business Insider asked these rising stars from leading firms like Goldman, Blackstone, and Citadel to reflect on their successes, challenges, and best career advice.
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2024
Natalie Ammari/BI
Our most recent set of young professionals reflect the future of finance. A number of them are shaping the trajectory of clean energy and artificial intelligence by financing the infrastructure that will underpin it. Some have seen their focus go from niche to hot asset. Others are influencing how Wall Street interacts with Main Street, using their skills and savvy to create new products and services for ordinary investors or giving employees at portfolio companies ownership stakes.
The rising stars also shared how they unwind and stay grounded in order to stay mentally sharp.
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2023
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/Insider
2023’s cohort included traders setting new playbooks for deals and trades and an investor building out burgeoning private markets businesses within the world’s largest bank. These influencers also financed some of the biggest deals of the past few years and provided an edge to top investors with complex and innovative products.
They shared the lessons learned from their biggest career mistakes and how their Wall Street wardrobe had evolved from their COVID work-from-home days.
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2022
Fidelity; General Atlantic; Jefferies Group; Goldman Sachs; Rachel Mendelson/Insider
As Wall Street navigated volatile markets, fewer deals, and plummeting company valuations, we found the players rising up despite the challenges.
One invested in space ventures, and another executed multibillion-dollar trades. Some up-and-comers pushed their teams to the top of industry rankings.
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From books on the science of sleep to fantasy football strategy podcasts, here’s what these bright leaders were reading and listening to. And here are some of their lessons and advice.