Goldman names new Asia investment banking head amid leadership changes

Todd Leland will replace Andrea Vella and Kate Richdale as the head of the Asia investment banking unit excluding Japan

Goldman Sachs Group’s veteran banker Todd Leland will become Asia investment banking head, a source said on Sunday, adding to leader-ship changes at the bank since Chief Executive Officer David Solomon took over this month. In the new role, Leland, an American who joined Goldman in 1992, will replace Andrea Vella and Kate Richdale as the head of the Asia investment banking unit excluding Japan. Vella and Richdale were appointed co-heads of the unit in 2015.

Vella and Richdale will remain in Asia to become the co-chairs of the unit, said the person, who declined to be named as