Peter Babej is Interim Head of Banking; Chairman of Banking, which includes the firm&rsquo;s corporate, commercial and investment banking activities, and partners with Citi&rsquo;s international franchises to drive global delivery of the firm&rsquo;s resources across nearly 100 markets. Peter is a member of Citi's Executive Management Team and the Board of Citi Foundation.
Previously, Peter served for four years as CEO of Citi Asia Pacific. Under his leadership, Citi expanded its institutional and wealth management businesses across the region, drove digital adoption across products and services, and focused its operating model through consumer banking divestitures in nine markets. Prior to his Asia Pacific role, Peter served as Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group, leading Citi to a top position in the sector.
Before joining Citi in 2010, Peter served in senior roles at Deutsche Bank and Lazard, where he advised financial institutions in numerous landmark transactions globally.
Peter holds a B.A. (summa cum laude) from the School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton, and a J.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Head of Banking

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Peter Babej

Kenya Bryant is a Program Officer at the Citi Foundation where she manages key partnerships across our portfolios, including within our Community Progress Makers and Community Finance initiatives. Prior to joining the Foundation, Kenya led the development and execution of the Est&eacute;e Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation&rsquo;s grantmaking strategy across racial equity, girls&rsquo; education, and M&middot;A&middot;C VIVA GLAM&rsquo;s international grant portfolio focused on HIV/AIDS, women&rsquo;s health, and LGBTQIA+ rights. Kenya&rsquo;s professional background includes non-profit fundraising and youth development work in Washington D.C. at BUILD and the Posse Foundation, as well as ad sales marketing and communications in her past roles at SiriusXM Pandora, ESSENCE Magazine, and Paramount.
Kenya holds an MS from Clemson University in Youth Development Leadership, and a BA from Wheaton College in Sociology, with Minors in Studio Art and Journalism where she attended as a Posse Scholar.

Program Officer

Kenya Bryant

Titi Cole is the Head of Legacy Franchises, responsible for overseeing the operating segment that houses Citi's consumer businesses and colleagues in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Mexico. She is a member of the Executive Management Team, the Board of the Citi Foundation and the Board of Grupo Financiero Citibanamex, S.A. de C.V. and Banco Nacional de M&eacute;xico, S.A. Titi is also co-lead of the global Citi Women inclusion network.
Prior to her current role, Titi served as the Head of Global Operations and Fraud Prevention and the Chief Client Officer for Citi&rsquo;s Personal Banking and Wealth Management (PBWM). Titi also served as the Global Diversity &amp; Inclusion Champion for PBWM, where she led initiatives to increase representation of women and underrepresented groups across the business.
Before joining Citi in 2020, Titi was the Head of Consumer and Small Business Banking Operations and Contact Centers at Wells Fargo after previously leading Shared Services for Consumer Credit Solutions. She also served as a member of Wells Fargo's Management Committee. Previously, Titi led Retail Products and Underwriting for Bank of America with responsibility for the consumer credit card, debit and checking businesses, credit card underwriting and fulfillment, and the enterprise payments network group. She has also held leadership roles at BMO Harris Bank in Chicago and McKinsey &amp; Company.
Titi earned a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Titi serves on the Board of Directors at Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) and CARE USA and on the Board of Trustees for Queens University of Charlotte.&nbsp;

Head of Legacy Franchises

Titi Cole

Micaela Duffy is a Grants Analyst on the Grants &amp; Contributions Management Team. She is responsible for grants administration, as well as data reporting and database management.
Prior to joining Citi, Micaela worked as a development assistant at Global Health Corps, where she was responsible for database management, prospect research, and grants administration. Previously, she interned at the Dunkin&rsquo; Joy in Childhood Foundation and Northwestern Mutual.
Micaela graduated from Boston College with a major in Psychology and minor in Finance.

Grants Analyst

Micaela Duffy

Philip Fitzgerald leads the Foundation&rsquo;s Community Progress Makers initiative and our approach to youth economic opportunities across the U.S. Before joining the Citi Foundation, he oversaw discretionary grantmaking, scholarships, private foundation services, special grantmaking initiatives, and grantmaking operations, and supported organization-wide strategic priorities at Philadelphia Foundation. Prior to that he managed corporate giving and community outreach programs for VILLA and oversaw a grantmaking and capacity building initiative at Nonprofit Finance Fund. Phil started his career preparing adult learners for the high school equivalency exam and teaching English to speakers of other languages in the US and abroad.
Phil is a graduate of Temple University&rsquo;s Fox School of Business and &Eacute;cole des Ponts Business School, having earned an MBA in International Business Administration. He also holds a Bachelor of Science cum laude in International Area Studies and a minor in French from Drexel University.

Senior Program Officer

Philip Fitzgerald

Andrew Fox leads the grants management function within the operations team, and is responsible for grants administration, information management, analysis and reporting, and IT management. Prior to joining Citi, Andrew worked in the office of the chief operating officer, general counsel, and secretary of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts&mdash;Amherst, Trinity College Dublin, and University College Dublin.

Senior Grants Manager

Andrew Fox

Eliza French is the Grants Manager. She has primary responsibility for grants administration and project management, and coordinates high-impact projects including requests for proposals. Eliza has over a decade of experience in the social impact sector. Before joining Citi, she was a Senior Associate at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust, where she supported a portfolio of civic engagement and democracy grants. Previously, she was a Program Associate at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and worked for nonprofits and cultural institutions in public programming and partnerships roles. Eliza holds an MPA in Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU, where she was a Public Service Scholarship recipient, and a BA magna cum laude in Art History from Duke University.

Grants Manager

Eliza French

Charlotte Gauthier is a Program Officer at the Citi Foundation managing grant investments across the Foundation&rsquo;s portfolios internationally, including leading the implementation of the Foundation&rsquo;s Global Innovation Challenge model and humanitarian and disaster responses. She brings more than twelve years of experience in the social impact sector, including over seven years at private foundations. Most recently, Charlotte was a Program Officer at the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation. In this role, she oversaw a multimillion-dollar grants portfolio focused on improving health for New York State&rsquo;s populations with the greatest needs. Prior, Charlotte was a governance and public-sector consultant for the World Bank. While there, she supported the conceptualization of public sector reforms in the East Africa region.
Charlotte holds a Master&rsquo;s of Public Administration in Development Practice from Columbia University, and a BA in Political Science from the Universidad de San Andres, Argentina.

Charlotte Gauthier

Zebradedra Hunter is a Program Officer at the Citi Foundation responsible for strategy and planning across our initiatives and portfolios globally. She leads cross-functional efforts that bring together operations, finance and program teams to enable the Foundation to launch and implement our flagship initiatives, including the launch of our first ever Global Innovation Challenge request for proposals. Prior to this role Zebradedra was a Grants Analyst responsible for our Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Bribery due diligence processes and grants administration.&nbsp;
Prior to joining the Foundation, Zebradedra worked at USA TODAY holding company, Gannett, where she supported the restructuring of the company&rsquo;s annual grantmaking programs, reviewed grant proposals, and managed the grants management software.
Zebradedra holds a Master&rsquo;s in Public Policy with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from the University of Maryland and a BA in Economics from Loyola University Maryland.

Zebradedra Hunter

Emily Krupnick is a Grants Analyst on the Grants &amp; Contributions Management Team. She is responsible for grants administration, as well as data reporting and database management.
Prior to joining Citi, Emily worked as a litigation paralegal at Lankler Siffert &amp; Wohl, where she was responsible for database management, document review, and legal brief preparation. Previously she interned at the Lawyers Alliance for New York, Nonprofit New York, and a congressional campaign. She also sits on the Associate Board of Bronx Lacrosse.
Emily graduated from Haverford College, where she majored in Political Science and minored in Religion.&nbsp;

Emily Krupnick

Esther Lee is a Grants Management Associate, responsible for system management and grants administration. Prior to this role, Esther was an Associate on the Charitable Contributions Governance team, where she assisted in the creation, maintenance, and improvement of the governance workflow for processing charitable contributions. Prior to joining Citi, Esther worked at the American Jewish World Service as a Program Associate in the Strategic Learning, Research and Evaluation division. She has seven years of experience in program management, evaluation and monitoring, and data analysis. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar, teaching English and environmental education. Esther holds a B.A. in Development Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Grants Associate

Esther Lee

David Livingstone was named Citi&rsquo;s Chief Client Officer in September 2023. In this capacity, David is responsible for driving the delivery of Citi&rsquo;s coverage and capabilities to clients and enhancing the client experience globally. David is a member of Citi&rsquo;s Executive Management Team, which he joined in 2019.
Previously, David served for almost five years as Chief Executive Officer of Citi&rsquo;s activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Under his leadership, Citi grew all of its businesses, operating in over 100 countries in the region, including expanding the Commercial Bank. He also helped Citi to navigate the pandemic in its largest region and led the firm&rsquo;s response globally to the war in Ukraine and the resulting sanctions against Russia. From 2016 to 2019, David was Citi Country Officer for Australia and New Zealand and a member of Citi&rsquo;s Asia Pacific Executive Management Team.
David joined Citi in 2016 from Credit Suisse AG, where he was Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking and Capital Markets Division and Head of Mergers &amp; Acquisitions for the EMEA region. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Australia from 2010 to 2013. David joined Credit Suisse in 2007 from HSBC, where he was Head of EMEA Investment Banking Advisory. Prior to that, he worked at the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. for over 16 years in a variety of senior roles in the investment banking division, particularly in the Mergers &amp; Acquisitions department.
David has extensive transaction and client experience in Mergers &amp; Acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and capital raisings. His management experience spans all of Citi&rsquo;s five businesses.
David holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Economics from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and a Master of Arts degree in Law from Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.

Chief Client Officer

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Stefany Castrillon Martinez is a Finance and Operations Associate at the Citi Foundation. She supports the Operations Team with the Foundation&rsquo;s accounting and bookkeeping, budget planning, and financial analysis and reporting.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Stefany was the Associate Director of Business Operations at The TEAK Fellowship, a non-profit providing educational access and leadership development to NYC students.
Stefany holds a BA in Political Science from the City College of New York.

Finance and Operations Associate

Stefany Castrillon Martinez

Mark Mason was named Chief Financial Officer of Citi in February 2019. He is responsible for the financial management of the company and also spearheads Citi&rsquo;s Expense Management and Citi Ventures initiatives. He is a member of Citi&rsquo;s Executive Management Team.
Prior to being named Citi CFO, Mark served as CFO of Citi&rsquo;s Institutional Clients Group and was the executive responsible for Citi&rsquo;s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) submission process.
Mark joined Citi in 2001 and has held several senior operational, strategic, and financial executive positions, including CEO of Citi Private Bank, CEO of Citi Holdings and CFO and Head of Strategy and M&amp;A for Citi&rsquo;s Global Wealth Management Division.
Prior to his tenure at Citi, Mark was Director of Strategy and Business Development with Lucent Technologies. He also spent several years as Strategy Consultant with Marakon Associates, working with a number of Fortune 100 companies to develop strategies to maximize shareholder value. Mark also has investment banking experience with Goldman Sachs &amp; Co.
Mark serves as a Trustee of Howard University, where he received a B.B.A. in finance and graduated with honors. He also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is a former Director of Primerica, Inc. (NYSEL PRI)
Mark resides in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

Chief Financial Officer

Mark Mason

Brandee McHale leads Citi&rsquo;s efforts to drive economic opportunity and invest in the equitable and inclusive growth of communities through impact investing, community-based financial access and education programs, fulfilment of U.S. Community Reinvestment Act regulatory obligations, employee volunteerism and the philanthropy of the Citi Foundation. In this role, Brandee has also led the creation and coordination of Action for Racial Equity, Citi and the Citi Foundation&rsquo;s multi-year commitment to help close the racial wealth gap and increase economic mobility in the United States.
With more than three decades of experience in financial services and philanthropy, Brandee has dedicated her career to developing forward-thinking initiatives that connect low-income communities and communities of color to jobs, housing and a more economically secure future. Prior to her current role, she led Citi&rsquo;s corporate citizenship efforts, including volunteerism, environmental sustainability and the Citi Foundation&rsquo;s philanthropy. She previously served as Director of Operations for Citi Community Capital. She also helped establish a business and philanthropic case for financial inclusion and asset building as a program officer at the Ford Foundation.
Brandee serves on the Board of the Council on Foundations and on the Advisory Council for Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP). Brandee is also a member of the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC)&rsquo;s Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion. She formerly served as Chair of the Global Steering Committee for the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), as Board Chair for Prosperity Now and Living Cities, organizations focused on economic opportunity and mobility in the U.S., and on the board of directors of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), America&rsquo;s Promise Alliance and Philanthropy NY.

Head of Community Investing and Development at Citi and President of the Citi Foundation

Brandee McHale

Karim McKenzie is a Grants Management Associate, with responsibility for grants administration, processing, and reporting. Karim has more than a decade of experience in grants, project, and financial management. Most recently, he served as Director of Grants &amp; Restricted Funds at NYIT. Karim holds a B.S. in Accounting from Molloy College, where he received a 4-year athletic scholarship to play basketball.

Karim McKenzie

Kristen Scheyder leads the Citi Foundation&rsquo;s U.S. community finance and financial inclusion grantmaking strategy, where she helps non-profits implement systems-change strategies to spur inclusive economic opportunity while also focusing on organizational capacity building to help grant partners drive better outcomes for their clients.
Kristen has been a community development practitioner for 25+ years, with experience in the banking, government and non-profit sectors. Prior to joining Citi in 2012, she was Deputy Director for the Northeast Region of NeighborWorks America, where she oversaw the provision of financial and technical resources to housing organizations in 11 states. Prior to that she held a variety of community development finance positions at HSBC Bank, Seedco (now TruFund Financial Services), the City of Philadelphia; and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
She earned a Master&rsquo;s in Government Administration from the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.

Kristen Scheyder

Edward Skyler joined Citi in 2010 and is now Head of Enterprise Services &amp; Public Affairs. A member of Citi&rsquo;s Executive Management Team reporting to the CEO, Edward has responsibility for managing several global operations, including Aviation, Colleague &amp; Client Services and Citi&rsquo;s real estate portfolio, as well as functions that shape the reputation of Citi, including Communications, Government Affairs, Sustainability/ESG, Community Investing &amp; Development and Citi&rsquo;s compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). He chairs Citi&rsquo;s Reputation Risk Committee and the Board of the Citi Foundation. He also shares oversight of Investor Relations and Regulatory Affairs.
Prior to joining Citi, Edward served as a member of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration from 2002 to 2010, rising to the position of Deputy Mayor for Operations for the City of New York. In that capacity, he oversaw the performance of the City's main operational agencies and served as a top budget, legislative and labor negotiator. He oversaw four consecutive balanced and on-time City budgets; negotiated legislation to reform lobbying and "pay-to-play" practices; and spearheaded critical initiatives such as the overhaul of the City's 911 system and its sustainability agenda.
Previously, Edward served as Press Secretary and Communications Director during Mayor Bloomberg's first term. Prior to joining the Bloomberg Administration, he worked in the Corporate Communications group of Bloomberg LP. He also served as Deputy Press Secretary to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Public Information Director at the Department of Parks &amp; Recreation.
Edward has stayed involved in civic life and served as Chairman of the Citizens Budget Commission. He is also an Executive Committee Member of the New York Police &amp; Fire Widows' &amp; Children's Benefit Fund and is a Trustee of The Paley Center for Media and the Hospital for Special Surgery.&nbsp;He has been honored by several organizations, including Global Kids, Graham Windham and the YMCA of Greater New York.
A member of the New York State Bar Association, Edward is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Fordham University School of Law.

Head of Enterprise Services & Public Affairs

Edward Skyler

Florencia Spangaro is the Chief Operating Officer of the Citi Foundation, overseeing program budget and execution planning, stakeholder engagement and reporting, and strategic grantmaking across the world. In this capacity, she leads the Citi Foundation&rsquo;s Programs team in strategy design and implementation of key initiatives, including the Global Innovation Challenge and Community Progress Makers. She also serves as Head of Programs for Community Investing and Development at Citi.
Prior to joining the Foundation in 2010, Florencia worked for Citi's Europe, Middle East and Africa regional office in London, where she was responsible for coordinating philanthropic and volunteering programs across the region. Before joining Citi, Florencia worked for the Argentine Embassy in London.
Florencia serves on the board of Living Cities, an economic opportunity focused philanthropic collaborative. Florencia holds a Master's in Corporate Social Responsibility from Metropolitan University in London and a Master's in International and Comparative Legal Studies from University of London, SOAS.

Chief Operating Officer

Florencia Spangaro

Ernesto Torres Cant&uacute; was named Citi&rsquo;s Head of International in September 2023. In this role, he partners with Citi&rsquo;s Banking organization to drive client engagement and delivery across all lines of business in Citi&rsquo;s nearly 100 international markets. His responsibilities also include legal entity management and implementing the firm&rsquo;s efforts to strengthen its risk management in each geography. Ernesto is a member of Citi&rsquo;s Executive Management Team.
Prior to his current role, Ernesto served for nearly four years as CEO of Citi Latin America. Under his leadership, Citi grew all of its businesses in the region, including expanding the Commercial Bank, while investing in and strengthening the digital experience across its platform. He also helped Citi navigate the pandemic and develop and implement a process to sell its consumer, small business and middle-market banking operations in Mexico through an IPO.
From 2014 to 2019, Ernesto was CEO of Citibanamex. He served as CEO of Citibanamex Consumer Banking from 2012 to 2014. Ernesto joined Citibanamex in 1989 as a corporate banker.
Born in Torre&oacute;n, M&eacute;xico, Ernesto holds a degree in industrial engineering from the Instituto Tecnol&oacute;gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and an M.B.A degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Tecnol&oacute;gico de Monterrey, Mexico City.

Head of International

Ernesto Torres Cantú 

Sara Wechter is Citi's Chief Human Resources Officer, responsible for talent acquisition, diversity, talent development, learning, benefits, compensation and employee relations. Since assuming this role in July 2018, she has championed pay equity efforts, notably making Citi one of the first companies to publicly disclose its raw pay gap data for women and minorities in 2019 and annually since then. She is a member of Citi&rsquo;s Executive Management team.
Under Sara&rsquo;s leadership, Citi has been an industry leader in employee benefits and programs, including launching a global paid parental leave standard in every country in which Citi operates and expanding mental health resources to employees.
Throughout her tenure, Sara has worked in several leadership roles, serving as Citi&rsquo;s Head of Talent and Diversity as well as Chief of Staff to former Citi CEO Mike Corbat. After starting in Investment Banking in 2004, she joined Citi's Corporate M&amp;A and Strategy team in 2007 and worked on the sale of Smith Barney and government investments during the financial crisis. Sara also served as Chief of Staff to Richard Parsons and Michael O'Neill during their respective terms as Chair of Citi's Board of Directors. In this capacity, she supported Citi&rsquo;s Board of Directors through a CEO transition, regulator and government engagements, and the recomposition of the Citi Board.
As a community leader, Sara serves on the Board of Directors of the Citi Foundation and NYU Hospital KIDS, and she is a Vice Chair of the Marlene Meyerson JCC Board of Directors in New York City. Sara is a graduate of Emory University and lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

Chief Human Resources Officer

Sara Wechter

Karen Valencia Wright is the Head of Operations and Finance for Community Investing and Development and the Citi Foundation. She oversees the CID and the Foundation's financial and operations functions including financial reporting, business planning, compliance, system and management of operations staff.&nbsp;
Karen joined the Citi Foundation in 2004, leading the move to online grantmaking and working to continuously improve systems and processes. Prior to joining Citi, she spent 5 years working for The Learning Project, a non-profit educational management organization as Director of Finance and Administration. Karen began her career as an investment banker in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs.&nbsp;
She holds a BS in Business Management and Marketing from Cornell University.

Director of Operations and Finance

Karen Valencia Wright

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