Primary Job Title Chairman of the Board Primary Organization GFI Group
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Mr. Michael A. Gooch founded the business of GFI Group Inc. in 1987 and has been GFI’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 1987. Prior to this, Mr. Gooch worked for Citibank, Refco Group, Bierbaum Martin, Harlow Meyer Savage and Tullet & Tokyo Forex. Mr. Gooch is the President and majority shareholder of Jersey Partners,
the largest shareholder of GFI.
Mr. Gooch served for eight years as a member of the Board of Trustees of Monmouth University in New Jersey and was a Board Member of the Count Basie Theatre Foundation, Red Bank, NJ. In 2007, Global Capital Associates honored Mr. Gooch with the Theodor Herzl award, which salutes ‘people who had a vision to build new enterprises and movements and change existing paradigms; people with the courage to do something different." For his support of PAX, a non-profit organization working to end gun violence against children and families in the U.S., Michael Gooch and his wife, Diane were honored in 2006.
