Matthew Barrett, the former head of Bank of Montreal, has joined the board of Goldman Sachs’ banking subsidiary, the company said Thursday.

Goldman Sachs Bank USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., added three new independent directors, BMO’s former chief executive Barrett among them.

Barrett began his career at BMO in 1962 and was chairman and CEO from 1989 to 1999 before moving over to the UK to head Barclays plc, which he left in 2006. Barrett currently serves as a director of Harry Winston Diamond Corp. and as a member of the international advisory board of National Bank of Kuwait.

In addition to Barrett, the other new directors are Ann Kaplan, chair of Circle Financial Group, an investment and wealth management membership organization and an adjunct professor of finance at the Columbia
University School of Business; and Thomas Melzer, co-founder and managing director of RiverVest Venture Partners and former head of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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