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- Each year, Business Insider highlights Wall Street’s rising stars.
- These are executives to watch in investment banking, trading, and investing.
- All are 35 or younger. Check out our lists over the years.
We’re putting together our next list of Rising Stars on Wall Street — and we want your help.
For the past eight years, Business Insider has spotlighted the up-and-comers shaking up investment banking, investing, and sales and trading. These are the young professionals leading deals, generating returns, and making a name for themselves at some of the biggest firms in finance — from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to Blackstone and Citadel.
Our finance reporters tap into their networks — and our readership — to surface the standout talent shaping the future of the industry.
If you know a hotshot based in the US, working in front-office roles, and 35 or under as of October 6, 2025, we want to hear who’s impressed you — and why.
As we prepare our 2025 edition, take a look back at the leaders we’ve already featured.
2024
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Our most recent set of young professionals reflect the future of finance. A number of them are shaping the trajectory of clean energy and artificial intelligence by financing the infrastructure that will underpin it. Some have seen their focus go from niche to hot asset. Others are influencing how Wall Street interacts with Main Street, using their skills and savvy to create new products and services for ordinary investors or giving employees at portfolio companies ownership stakes.
The rising stars also shared how they unwind and stay grounded in order to stay mentally sharp.
2023
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2023’s cohort included traders setting new playbooks for deals and trades and an investor building out burgeoning private markets businesses within the world’s largest bank. These influencers also financed some of the biggest deals of the past few years and provided an edge to top investors with complex and innovative products.
They shared the lessons learned from their biggest career mistakes and how their Wall Street wardrobe had evolved from their COVID work-from-home days.
2022
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As Wall Street navigated volatile markets, fewer deals, and plummeting company valuations, we found the players rising up despite the challenges.
One invested in space ventures, and another executed multibillion-dollar trades. Some up-and-comers pushed their teams to the top of industry rankings.
From books on the science of sleep to fantasy football strategy podcasts, here’s what these bright leaders were reading and listening to. And here are some of their lessons and advice.
Here are the previous editions of our Wall Street Rising Stars list:
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