Polymarket Names Former Goldman Sachs Partner Lisa Mantil Head of Institutional Growth
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After 27 years at Goldman Sachs, Mantil will lead Polymarket's expansion into institutional markets, its next wave of growth NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Polymarket, the world's largest prediction market, today named Lisa Mantil its Head of Institutional Growth. Mantil will lead the company's work with investment managers, trading firms, corporates and banks, to build the products, infrastructure and liquidity they need to take part in prediction markets at scale. Prediction markets give institutions something they haven't had before: a direct way to price and hedge real-world events. Elections, policy decisions, rate moves, regulatory rulings and geopolitical outcomes affect nearly every portfolio. Until now, institutions have largely relied on proxies and correlated assets, with no guarantee those instruments will move in line with the risk they are intended to hedge. Institutional access to Polymarket opens new markets, brings new participants into the category and gives capital a direct way to hedge risks that previously lacked dedicated markets. At Goldman Sachs, Mantil was a Partner known for her deep relationships with the firm's institutional clients. Most recently, she built and led the firm's ETF Accelerator, a platform that helped institutions bring new investment products to market. "Lisa's experience and relationships across the institutional world...
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