Marco Argenti

Argenti was born in La Spezia, Italy. He earned a master’s degree in informatics engineering from the engineering faculty of the Università di Pisa and a professional engineering qualification in management engineering from the Politecnico di Milano. In the 1990s he founded the early internet startup Dreamware, which Microforum Inc. acquired in 1996; he moved to Toronto as part of the deal and served as a board member, executive vice president of strategy development and CTO of Microforum. He also founded Internet Frontier Inc., later returned to Italy to lead Wireless Solutions, and served as a board member and CEO of DadaOluwapelumi DadaOluwapelumi Dada is a co-founder and CEO of Sorce.Open the full entry S.p.A.⁠[1][2]

In 2008 Argenti moved to New York with Nokia, and from 2011 to 2013 he was senior vice president and global head of Developer Experience and Marketplace at Nokia Corporation.⁠[1][2]

In 2013 Argenti moved to Seattle to join AmazonAmazonAmazon is a publicly traded U.S. technology and retail company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, with its principal corporate offices in Seattle. Its businesses span e-commerce, logistics and fulfillment, digital advertising, membership and entertainment services, consumer electronics, and Amazon Web Services cloud computing.Open the full entry as vice president of technology at Amazon Web Services, where he started and ran businesses including mobile, serverless computing, the Internet of Things, and augmented and virtual reality, spending about six years at the company. Recalling AWS, he said, “So, this whole idea of a computer on tap was so fascinating for me.”⁠[2][1][3][4]

A longtime guitarist, Argenti started the rock band Element 47 in Seattle around 2015; it plays covers of grunge songs in small venues to raise money for pancreatic cancer research.⁠[3]

In September 2019 Goldman Sachs announced Argenti’s hiring; he joined that October as a partner and co-chief information officer alongside George Lee. On joining he said, “Great talent is a global phenomenon.”⁠[3][2][1]

Argenti is chief information officer of Goldman Sachs and a member of its Management Committee, and he sits on the firmwide Technology Risk, Enterprise Risk and Artificial Intelligence Risk committees.⁠[2]

On April 30, 2024, a16zAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry released the In the Vault episode “In the Vault: Turning Developers Into Clients With Marco Argenti From Goldman Sachs,” titled on YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry “Marco Argenti (Goldman Sachs): Turning Developers into Clients.” Andreessen Horowitz general partner David HaberDavid HaberDavid Haber is an investor and entrepreneur and a New York-based general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). He previously invested at Spark Capital, co-founded small-business lender Bond Street and worked in Goldman Sachs strategy after its acquisition of the company.Open the full entry spoke with Argenti, then chief information officer of Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, turning developers into clients and why AI is a major inflection point in technology. Speaking about engineers, Argenti said, “Engineers they tend to start from the how.”⁠[4][5]

Argenti serves on the board of advisors of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, is a board member emeritus of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and is a trustee of Carnegie Hall and Mount Sinai.⁠[2]