David has overall responsibility for Citi Global Wealth Investments, which unifies the Investments teams of the Private Bank and the Consumer Bank worldwide.

As Chief Investment Officer, David ensures the integration of our asset allocation, manager research and portfolio management teams, and offers his perspectives on the markets.

David joined the Private Bank in 2009 as the Global Head of Managed Investments. He designed the architecture of our global managed investments platform, including its Citi Investment Management unit, and our distinctive private equity, real estate, hedge fund and traditional investment teams. He became Global Head of Investments in October of 2017.

Prior to joining Citi, David was Head of Alternative Investment Asset Management for Bank of America Global Wealth and Investment Management, where he was responsible for client alternative investments across private equity, real estate, venture capital and hedge funds. He has been a co-founder of a hedge fund of funds, Martello Investment Management, and a senior executive at two leading hedge funds, John W. Henry and Company and Ellington Management Group.

David holds a BA with honors from Amherst College and an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School.

Steven heads our Global Strategy team which formulates our macro investment views across all regions and asset classes. He chairs our Global Investment Committee, which sets our tactical asset allocation, the basis for discretionary portfolios we manage for clients. 

As Chief Economist, Steven provides detailed macroeconomic analyses to inform portfolio decisions.

Previously, Steven was Head of Economics for US institutional equities at Citi Investment Research. He advised the firm’s institutional and government clients globally on macroeconomic developments, forecasts and policy analysis. 

He was also economic advisor to the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Investment Committee and a voting member of predecessor Asset Allocation Committees at Salomon Smith Barney.

Steven has a master’s in quantitative economics from the Zicklin School of Business, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York

Iain Armitage is Global Head of Markets for Citi Global Wealth. Iain’s team provide investment advice and execution services across all traded markets including equity, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity markets. He is based in London.

Iain has worked at Citi for over 28 years and prior to his current role was the Regional Head of Investments for the Private Bank in EMEA.

Prior to this, Iain worked for Global Markets in Citi’s Institutional Clients Group including roles as Global Head of Commodity Investor Sales, Head of Fixed Income Derivatives Sales in Japan and as a fixed income derivative salesperson in Europe.

Iain holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Durham University.

Philip heads the Private Bank’s Office of Innovation, which he helped to establish in 2018. He chairs the Growth Board, participates on accelerator programs and other initiatives designed to improve the client experience. 

He has more than 20 years of financial industry experience, mostly gained at Citi. Before joining the Private Bank, he held a variety of positions within Citi’s Institutional Clients Group. As well as leading the Global Investment Lab, Philip sits on the Global Investment Committee and Multi-Asset Class Committees, which inform the tactical market views and management of discretionary portfolios respectively. 

Dan leads a team of professionals in Boston, New York, London and Hong Kong dedicated to identifying key themes across alternative asset classes, and originating opportunities for clients.

Prior to joining Citi, Dan worked for Bank of America’s alternative investment group, focusing on private equity and real estate origination and investment management. Dan also has experience working on all aspects of the underwriting and monitoring process for a wide range of buyout, venture capital, and real estate investments during his career in Bank of America’s principal investing division

Dan holds a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Rob oversees Citi Investment Management’s operations globally, which responsible for approximately $80.5bn in assets under management and advisement.

He is also a voting member of the Global Investment Committee, which sets the Private Bank's tactical asset allocation recommendations.

Rob is an industry leader in global developed and emerging market equity management and has more than 25 years’ investment experience.

Kristen is responsible for leading the North America Investments business serving both the ultra-high net worth and high net worth client segments. She is also a member of the Private Bank’s global investments leadership team.

Most recently, Kristen was head of capital markets for the Americas, a role in which she managed a team of professionals delivering cross asset core portfolio and tactical trading strategies. She has spent over two decades in capital markets leading teams at Citi, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan, and speaks on the subject regularly at industry conferences.

Kristen holds a bachelor’s in Economics and Spanish Language & Literature from the University of Notre Dame, and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Lisandro oversees the creation and delivery of innovative investment strategies, asset allocations and risk management to leading high net worth clients and family offices across Latin America.

Lisandro joined Citi from BAP Capital, a distressed real estate fund, where he was investment officer and before that was investment officer for Citi’s global pension investments group.

Roger is responsible for all of our investments activities in Asia-Pacific.

Previously, he was Head of Citi Investment Management in the region. Roger has more than 27 years of asset management industry experience. He spent the first ten years of his career with JPMorgan Asset Management and its predecessor companies working in Asia, the UK and continental Europe. In 2004, he joined a prominent UK family office to set up and manage a substantial multi-asset-class investment program. As UBP’s Head of Hedge Fund Business in London, he helped build a multi-billion dollar discretionary and advisory customized hedge fund operation.

Roger has an honors degree, postgraduate diploma and MBA in International Financial Services from the University of London. He holds the Certified Private Wealth Professional designation.

Mark has overall responsibility for the delivery of investment services to our clients throughout EMEA. The region-wide team he oversees is engaged in sourcing, originating and structuring traditional and alternative investments, liquidity products, structured investments and hedging strategies across asset classes.

In his previous role, Mark was Head of Citi Private Bank in the United Arab Emirates, and Team Head for the Gulf and Pakistan. Prior to that, he was Head of Investment Counseling for the Middle East. Mark began his Citi career in 2001 as a Portfolio Manager specializing in emerging market equities for Citi Asset Management.

Before joining Citi, Mark was at Legal & General Investment Management, working with corporate pension fund clients.

He holds the Investment Management Certificate and Private Client Investment Advice & Management Certificate.

Harlin works across Citi’s investment divisions to develop and embed a global framework along the full spectrum of sustainability to ensure its alignment with Citi’s best thinking on portfolio management, research and asset allocation. This includes environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration, socially responsible, thematic and impact investments.

Harlin is an observing member of the Global Investment Committee and oversees Investing with Purpose, our sustainable investing platform. She is also a representative on Citi’s Net Zero Task Force, entrusted with the group’s goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050.

Prior to joining Citi in 2017, she served as Associate Director of innovative finance at the Milken Institute. Before that, Harlin spent over a decade as a capital markets and foreign exchange specialist, advising ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices at Deutsche Bank and Citi, having begun her career at Lehman Brothers. She also served as an adjunct professor of impact investing at USC’s Marshall School of Business.

Harlin holds an undergraduate degree in finance from Rutgers University and a master’s in public administration from New York University.

Based in New York, Shu oversees the creation and delivery of innovative and holistic wealth-management strategies, asset allocations and risk management to individuals and family offices globally.

Prior to the Private Bank, Shu was Head of Portfolio Construction at US Investment Solutions at UBS Financial Services. Previously, she conducted manager due diligence and managed $12 billion in sub-advisory funds within the Investment Management Group of Diversified Investment Advisors. She also served at BARRA RogersCasey, a pension consulting firm, where she serviced large pension plans.

Shu gained an MBA from Northeastern University and holds the CFA designation.