Overview

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Bill Mills is CEO of North America for Citi. He also heads Citi Community Development and International Franchise Management in 101 countries around the globe.

From 2008 to 2011, he was CEO of EMEA, where he was responsible for the performance of all of Citi's broad range of client segments across the region, including consumers, corporations, institutions and governments. In his position in North America, Bill is focused on serving clients, working with regulators and managing expenses for Citi's businesses in the region.

Until taking on the role as CEO of Citi EMEA, Bill was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citi Markets & Banking for EMEA.

Bill has more than 35 years of experience in investment banking, including 30 with Citi. Before relocating to London, he was Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Smith Barney Asia Pacific and a member of the Salomon Smith Barney Management Committee. In that role, Bill was responsible for the Firm's investment banking, equity, fixed income, private client services and other operations conducted in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the sub-continent.

Bill began his Citi career in New York where he formed and headed the debt origination and securitization group at Smith Barney, served as co-head of Smith Barney's Financial Institutions Division and spent five years as co-head of the Investment Banking Division. Before joining Smith Barney in 1982, he was a Vice President at Standard & Poor's Corporation, where he was a member of the Structured Finance Rating Committee.

Bill is a Board Member of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (CGMI) and was a Member of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Financial Services Global Competitiveness Group. He is a Fellow of The Foreign Policy Association and a Member of both the Advisory Board of Career Academies UK and the Board for The American Turkish Society.

He is a 1977 graduate of Denison University.