Ex-Goldman Chief Trading Quant to Join $47 Billion Sixth Street

Adam Korn built his career on the front lines of the tech revolution in Wall Street trading. He’s now setting his sights on an even more stubborn corner of finance.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. veteran is joining $47 billion investment firm Sixth Street Partners as its new chief information officer this month, according to a spokesman. Over much of his two decades at Goldman Sachs, the 44-year-old saw quants evolve from nerds in the corner to the forefront of the trading business at the big banks.

Adam Korn

Now he’ll have the task of injecting technology into the world of ...