Sylvain Gaboury/Getty Images Ram Sundaram is leaving the bank after a 20-year career at Goldman Sachs. He led a secretive trading unit that made some of the bank's most exotic, and profitable, trades. Read the full memo announcing Sundaram's departure. Ram Sundaram, the head of currencies and emerging-markets business at Goldman Sachs, is planning to exit the firm, according to a memo obtained by Business Insider. Sundaram is a Goldman partner who was closely involved in the design and sale of the trades the bank did for the Malaysia development fund known as 1MDB. The bank reached a $3.9 billion settlement last year over its role in the trades. Sundaram has never been implicated in the scandal.