Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Image: Goldman Sachs Group.com The bank is also asking shareholders not to vote for an independent racial audit which will reveal its contribution to systematic racism. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and “There’s still a long road ahead,” wrote Chief Executive David Solomon in the report’s introduction, “but I will continue to make this effort a personal priority.” A recent study in Financial Times also revealed that Black employees were not only underrepresented in the United States financial services industry in 2018 but that there was a decline from the previous decade, per “It begs the question of all of the efforts and all of the energy that was put into this: ‘What are they doing and why is none of this working?’” said chief executive of Diverse & Engaged,