During Goldring’s 12 years at trading firm Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, he was responsible for overall management and was the principal developer of the firm’s REDI automated trading systems. He negotiated the sale of SLK to Goldman Sachs in 2000, became a partner, and served as a member of the Equity Division Operating Committee before retiring in 2002. He serves on the boards of Columbia Law School, the Rays Baseball Foundation, the Great Hollow Nature Preserve, and Point72 Asset Management. He previously served on the Securities Industry Clearing Firms Committee, was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Securities Clearing Corp (NSCC)/Depository Trust Clearing Corp (DTCC), and was one of the principal organizers of the merger of NSCC into DTCC. Goldring earned his law degree from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was an Editor of the Law Review, his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Graduate Division, and his bachelor’s as a summa cum laude graduate of the Wharton Undergraduate Division.