Mark Mason is an American business executive, serving since 2019 as the chief financial officer (CFO) of Citigroup. He is one of the few first black executives on Wall Street.

Early life and education

Mason was raised in

Queens, New York Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

, and as a teenager he worked for his grandparents, who ran carpentry and landscaping businesses. He earned of Bachelor of Business Administration ( BBA) degree in finance and graduated with honors from

Howard University Howard University (Howard) is a Private university, private, University charter#Federal, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classifie ...

. He then went on to earn a Master of Business Administration (

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

) degree from Harvard Business School.

Career

Mason joined Citigroup in 2001 and has held a number of executive positions at the firm, including Chief Financial Officer of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group, Chief Executive Officer of Citi Private Bank, Chief Executive Officer of Citi Holdings, and Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy and M&A for Citi’s Global Wealth Management Division. Mason is currently the firm’s CFO.

Board Membership

Mason has been on the Board of Trustees of Howard University since 2012 and has been vice chair of the Board of Trustees since July 1, 2017.

References

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