Walter Driver Jr.

President
United States Golf Association (USGA)

Occupation

Chairman; Southeast, of Goldman Sachs and Co., a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm as of January 2006. For six years prior, he was chairman and chief executive of King & Spalding LLP, an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers.

Driver joined King and Spalding in 1970 and was elected a partner in 1976. He was first elected to the policy committee in 1987 and was named chairman of the policy committee in 1992. During his tenure, the firm nearly tripled its staff, added offices in Houston and London, and increased annual revenues by some 500 percent to more than $500 million.

Business Notables

Driver successfully defended Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, a huge Italian-based international banking firm, in the largest and most complex bank fraud case in U.S. history, involving $4 billion in unreported financing to Iraq from 1985-1990. After years of litigation and government hearings, his client was awarded $400 million from the United States government in 1992.

Driver’s regular practice at King and Spalding was focused on financial and restructuring transactions exceeding $1 billion in real estate related liabilities.

Education

A.B, Stanford University, 1967 (Political Science major)
J.D., University of Texas, 1970 (School of Law)

Biography information obtained from http://www.usga.org/news/2006/february/driver_bio.html