Jim O’Donnell is currently Vice Chair of Citi. In this role, he is a member of Citi’s Senior Coverage team, responsible for helping coverage teams across Citi’s businesses develop client relationship strategies that will significantly deepen their own relationships with clients across Citi. Jim is focused on helping create a unified vision for how to best work with institutional and wealth clients, ensuring Citi provides comprehensive solutions across their business and personal banking needs.

Jim was previously the CEO of Citi Global Wealth at Citi. Previously, he served as Managing Director and Global Head of Investor Sales and Relationship Management at Citi Markets and Securities Services. In this role, Jim was responsible for client distribution of equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities. Previously, he served as Co-Head of Global Investor Sales, a position he held from November 2007.

Previously, Jim served as Head of Equities, Americas at Citi. He joined the firm in July 1999 as Head of Equities, EMEA. Before joining Citi, Jim was President and CEO  of HSBC Securities Inc. in New York,  responsible for all equity, debt, futures, and investment banking operations for HSBC in the US and was CEO of HSBC James Capel, HSBC’s global equity business.

Jim has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Religion from Princeton University. He is a second-generation Irish American, with his father’s family hailing from Dublin and his mother’s from Galway. He credits his Irish heritage, along with his family and his faith, as being the foundation of his life.