The Wall Street Diaspora — Talent-Flow Intelligence
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The Wall Street Diaspora

LinkedIn shows you one person's résumé. The graph shows you the aggregate flow — where an elite firm's people go once they leave. And the real signal isn't that they leave. It's that they leave and go run the place: a whole generation of asset managers founded and led by two firms' alumni.

01 — The two talent factories

Goldman Sachs
144
alumni now at $1B+ asset & wealth firms
Morgan Stanley
166
alumni now at $1B+ asset & wealth firms

One query per firm — prior_employer → current firm + AUM. Not a handful of famous names: hundreds of professionals, mapped from their own filed bios to where they landed.

02 — They don't just leave. They take over.

Firms founded or led by the diaspora

The graph filters the flow to the tell that matters — destinations where an alum is now Founder, CEO, or Managing Partner. That's not talent leaking; that's talent compounding into new institutions:

The Goldman line

BBR Partners$36B
Both Co-CEOs ex-Goldman — Brett Barth & Evan Roth
Circle Wealth Mgmt$14B
Maria Chrin, Founder & Managing Partner (5 alumni in all)
Corbin Capital$11B
Tracy Stuart, Managing Partner & CEO
Shelter Growth Capital$5B
Dan Sparks, CEO & CIO
Farther Asset Mgmt$3B
Brad Genser, Co-Founder & CTO (4 alumni)

The Morgan Stanley line

I Squared Capital$60B
Sadek Wahba, Founder & Managing Partner
Cheyne Capital$39B
Both founders ex-MS — Jonathan Lourie & Stuart Fiertz
Quantbot Technologies$7B
Paul White, Co-founder & CEO (4 alumni)
ICON Wealth Advisors$3B
Both founders ex-MS — McAdams & Schwarzbach

$60B, $39B, $36B in assets — run by people two firms trained and lost. That concentration is invisible on any individual résumé; it only appears when you map the flow.

Why the graph beats the résumé database

LinkedIn (or any bio search) is one profile at a time — you can read that Sadek Wahba was at Morgan Stanley, but you can't see that a $60B firm and a $39B firm and a $36B firm are all run by the same firm's alumni. The graph resolves people to companies and companies to AUM, so the flow and the concentration become one queryable picture: where does talent go, where does it lead, and which competitor is quietly staffed by the people you trained. Point it at any firm to map its diaspora — a recruiting map, a competitive- intel map, and an investment signal all at once.

BUILT on the MARS entity graph — career histories (prior_employer → current firm) from SEC ADV Part-2B bios, joined to each firm's regulatory AUM. Coverage = the ~3,300 RIA/asset-management firms that file 2B supplements (deep in wealth/asset management; not every employer). Individual company-to-company talent-flow (full multi- employer career chains) is a richer edge the people-link team is building now. Illustrative talent intelligence from public filings — not investment or employment advice. Internal — not for external distribution.