Overview

Gender

male

Wender has served as a Director of Ionis since January 1994.

Wender began with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1971 and became a General Partner of that firm in 1982, where he headed the Financial Institutions Group for over a decade. Since January 2008, he has been a Senior Consultant to Goldman Sachs & Co.

He is also an Independent Trustee of the Schwab Family of Funds and Director of Grandpoint Capital, a bank holding company. Wender also is a managing partner and owns, with his wife, Colgin Cellars. As of March 2014, Wender is a director of Outfront Media, lessors of advertising space on out-of-home advertising structures.