Mark Mason

Citigroup

Mark Mason is Wall Street’s Jackie Robinson. He is the first Black Chief Financial Officer of a major global banking institution. As CFO of Citi, the global banking giant with over $2 trillion in assets he is responsible for every dollar, in every business, in every country in which Citi operates. His influence on careers, companies, and communities is unimaginable to most. Success in finance and banking is typically the result of hard work, intelligence, and problem-solving abilities. Mason, reportedly the highest-paid CFO in banking, embodies these three skills while also displaying a level of humility rarely found in C-suites. Mason was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Citi in February 2019 and is also a member of Citi’s Executive Management Team. Before assuming the role of CFO, Mark served as CFO of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group. Since joining Citi in 2001, he has held several senior operational, strategic, and financial executive positions. An honors graduate of the prestigious HBCU, Howard University, he now serves as a Trustee of his alma mater. He later earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mason's career at Citi has spanned two decades and his success is proof positive that having the right skills, work ethic, and loyalty to a firm can be a powerful formula for achieving excellence in one’s chosen field.