Gene Sykes serves as the chair of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Board of Directors and as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He was elected to role of USOPC chair in July of 2022, and unanimously approved as an IOC member in July of 2024.

Sykes is the co-chairman of Global Mergers and Acquisitions and co-chairman of the Global Technology, Media and Telecom Group at Goldman Sachs & Co. He joined the firm in 1984 and became a partner in 1992.

Sykes took a leave from Goldman in 2015 to join the L.A. bid committee as CEO and oversee the successful bid campaign that ended in 2017 with the International Olympic Committee awarding the 2028 Games to Los Angeles. He stepped down from the CEO role in December of 2018.

In addition to serving on the board LA28, and on the executive committee of Organizing Committee for the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Sykes serves on the board of the Pacific Council on International Policy and Common Sense Media.

He is trustee emeritus of Stanford University and a member of the Advisory Council of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sykes earned a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard College in 1980 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1984.