Goldman executive who helped create Marcus brand leaves for real estate investing start-up Cadre

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The departure of Cohn, who is credited with helping name the firms consumer division Marcus in 2016, is the latest in a wave of exits from the New York-based bank in the past 14 months. Cohn joins other former executives including Omer Ismail and David Stark in leaving Goldman amid plans to scale its retail banking business. Cadre, which allows individuals to take stakes in commercial real estate, is one of the more prominent players in a group of start-ups seeking to broaden access to asset classes once considered the domain of institutional investors or rich families. The start-ups hope to achieve what Robinhood did for stocks and what Coinbase did for crypto — tapping the potential of millions of ordinary Americans to create or widen a retail investing category. "My goal for Marcus was creating awareness that this new consumer business even existed for this mass affluent audience," Cohn said Tuesday in an interview.

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