Citi has hired Murray Roos as Global Head of Sales for its Equities and Prime Finance divisions.
In this newly created role, Roos will be responsible for developing and leading a unified and global sales strategy across the full range of equity and prime finance products offered to Citi’s clients. He will be based in London and report to Derek Bandeen, Global Head of Equities, Okan Pekin, Global Head of Investor Services and Jim O’Donnell, Global Head of Investor Sales.
Roos brings more than 18 years of industry experience to this new role. He joins Citi from Deutsche Bank where he spent the past eight years in a variety of senior management positions, most recently as Global Co-Head of Prime Finance and Co-Head of European Equities. He had previously worked at UBS where he ran the EMEA index flow trading desk.
“This hire reflects Citi’s commitment to attracting the industry’s top talent as well as our focus on growing Citi’s equities franchise through a close partnership with our Investor Service colleagues,” says Derek Bandeen. “We are delighted to welcome Murray to the team.”
Roos will join Citi’s Investor Services Global Management team and sit on the Global Equities Executive Committee. This appointment follows the recent hire of Adam Hermann joining Citi from UBS as global Head of Prime Finance.
Pekin, says: “The addition of Murray is of strategic importance to our businesses as we continuously strive to integrate our offering across Citi’s Markets franchise. We are confident that Murray’s extensive industry experience will drive growth and further enhance our ability to serve our clients across the full spectrum of equities and prime finance products and solutions.”
“We are delighted to have Murray on board and believe he will add tremendous leadership as we continue to build on the momentum of our global franchise,” says Jim O’Donnell. “With his background and industry expertise, we believe he will have an immediate, positive impact on both Citi and our client franchise.”
