Goldman Exec Named iStar Prez

Jay S. Nydick, a longtime executive with Goldman, Sachs & Co., has been named president of iStar Financial Inc., a New York-based real estate investment trust.Mr. Nydick was most recently a Hong Kong-based managing director who headed Goldman's Corporate Finance Group for non-Japan Asia, as well as a member of the company's New York-based Products and Financial Sponsors Group, iStar said. Before his Asian assignment, he was in Goldman's Real Estate Investment Banking Group. The REIT can be found online at http://www.istarfinancial.com.