Citi Wealth Adds Managing Director of Asset Manager Relationships

Mark Shpizner

Mark Shpizner joined Citi Wealth’s asset manager relationships team as a managing director, according to an internal memo confirmed by a spokesperson.

Shpizner, who joined the team on March 9, is based in Citibank N.A.’s New York headquarters and reports to Christine Curtiss, Citi Wealth’s head of asset manager relationships. Together, Curtiss and Shpizner will implement new relationship governance framework for Citi Wealth’s asset manager partners, execute asset manager partnership strategy and generate new commercial activity, according to the announcement.

He has 16 years of experience in the asset management industry and previously held leadership positions in sales and relationship management, as well as product strategy, at BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Centerbridge Partners and Northern Trust.

During his nine years at BlackRock, Shpizner established and scaled the firm’s enterprise strategic partnership program and then built and led BlackRock’s first institutional product strategy and development function.

After BlackRock, Shpizner went on to lead sales strategy and execution for Centerbridge Partners, where he spearheaded the firm’s product strategy and development efforts across a wide range of private markets capabilities and built critical sales enablement infrastructure to help globalize and scale Centerbridge’s fundraising campaigns.

Shpizner is also the co-chair of the board of Minds Matter NYC, a nonprofit that connects students from low-income families to the people and resources needed to succeed in college. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.