List of Chief Executives of Citigroup
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Citigroup
Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...

This lists the person or persons who were ultimately responsible for the company since its founding in 1812.

The chief was a president until 1909 when a chairman became the highest office.

President

  • Samuel Osgood
    Samuel Osgood
    Samuel Osgood was an American merchant and statesman born in North Andover Massachusetts, parent town of the Andovers. His family home still stands at 440 Osgood Street in North Andover...

     - 1812-1813 (City Bank of New York)
  • William Few
    William Few
    William Few, Jr. was an American politician and a farmer, and a businessman and a Founding Father of the United States. William represented the U.S. state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention....

    - 1813-1817
  • Peter Staff - 1817-1825
  • Thomas L. Smith - 1825-1827
  • Isaac Wright
    Isaac Wright
    Isaac Wright was a Quaker investor who esblished the first scheduled trans-Atlantic shipping service between New York and England and was a president of City National Bank.Wright was born in Sheffield...

     1827-1832
  • Thomas Bloodgood
    Thomas Bloodgood
    Thomas Bloodgood was a president of City National Bank.Bloodgood was born in Flushing, New York, USA, and was a member of the Bloodgoodfamily dating to back Dutch ownership of New York. He was also a wine merchant at...

     - 1832-1844
  • Gorham A. Worth
    Gorham A. Worth
    Gorham A. Worth was a president of City National Bank.Worth was born in Hudson, New York. His father Thomas Worth had been among the founders of the community. It is a common mistake, repeated here and there, that his brother was General William Jenkins Worth; William Jenkins Worth was his cousin...

     - 1844-1856
  • Moses Taylor
    Moses Taylor
    Moses Taylor was a 19th century New York merchant and banker and one of the wealthiest men of that century. At his death, his estate was reported to be worth $70 million, or about $ billion in today's dollars. He controlled the National City Bank of New York , the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western...

     - 1856-1882 (National City Bank after 1865 - telegraph lines referred to it as "Citibank")
  • Percy Pyne
    Percy Pyne
    Percy Rivington Pyne was a President of City National Bank.He was born in England to Anna and Thomas Rivington Pyne and attended Christ's Hospital. He moved to the U.S. in 1835 and joined Moses Taylor & Co., becoming a partner in 1842. In 1855 he married Taylor's daughter Albertina. Their...

     - 1882-1891
  • James Stillman
    James Stillman
    James Jewett Stillman was an American businessman who invested in land, banking, and railroads in New York, Texas, and Mexico.-Biography:...

     1891-1909

President

The Chairman position was not filled on Stillman's death. Duties were handled by the President who acted on an interim basis.
  • Frank A. Vanderlip
    Frank A. Vanderlip
    Frank A. Vanderlip was an American banker. From 1897-1901, Vanderlip was the Assistant Secretary of Treasury for President of the United States William McKinley's second term. In that office he negotiated with National City Bank a $200 million loan to the government to finance the Spanish...

     - 1918-1919 (had been president of the bank since 1909 and succeeded on Stillman's death but forced out by Stillman's son)
  • James A. Stillman
    James A. Stillman
    James Alexander Stillman was a chairman of Citigroup whose messy divorce grabbed tabloid headlines in the Roaring Twenties.Stillman was born in New York City and graduated Harvard University in 1896...

     - 1919-1921
  • Charles E. Mitchell
    Charles E. Mitchell
    Charles Edwin Mitchell was an American banker whose incautious securities policies facilitated the speculation which led to the Crash of 1929...

     - 1921-1929

Chairman

  • Charles E. Mitchell
    Charles E. Mitchell
    Charles Edwin Mitchell was an American banker whose incautious securities policies facilitated the speculation which led to the Crash of 1929...

     - 1929-1933
  • James H. Perkins
    James H. Perkins
    James Handasyd Perkins was a chairman of Citigroup.Perkins was born in Milton, Massachusetts. He attended the Milton Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1898. He was with the Walter Baker chocolate company in hometown until 1905...

     - 1933-1940
  • Gordon S. Rentschler
    Gordon S. Rentschler
    Gordon Sohn Rentschler was a chairman of First National City Bank, a predecessor of Citigroup.He was born in Hamilton, Ohio. His father was George A. Rentschler one of the principals of the Hooven-Owens-Rentschler engine manufacturer. One of his daughters was married to Dean G. Witter...

     - 1940-1948
  • William Gage Brady, Jr.
    William Gage Brady, Jr.
    William Gage Brady, Jr. was a chairman of the National City Bank of New ork, a predecessor of Citibank.Brady was born in New York City. He attended Trinity School and received a B.A. in 1908 from Columbia University. He worked at Bankers Trust until 1914. He then went to work at National City Bank...

     - 1948-1952
  • Howard C. Sheperd
    Howard C. Sheperd
    Howard C. Sheperd was chairman of the predecessor to Citibank from 1952 to 1959 and a founder of WNET, the New York City Public Broadcasting Service outlet....

     - 1952-1959 (First National City Bank of New York after 1955)
  • James Stillman Rockefeller
    James Stillman Rockefeller
    James Stillman Rockefeller was a member of the prominent U.S. Rockefeller family.-Personal life:A paternal grandson of William Rockefeller, his maternal grandfather James Stillman and uncle James Alexander Stillman served as president of the National City Bank of New York, now Citibank...

     - 1959-1967 (First National City Bank after 1962)
  • George S. Moore
    George S. Moore
    George S. Moore was a chairman of Citigroup from 1967 to 1970.Moore was born in Hannibal, Missouri and graduated from Yale University where he made money booking Broadway shows and booking tours to Europe for his classmates....

     - 1967-1970 (First National City Corporation in 1968)
  • Walter B. Wriston - 1970-1984 (Citicorp in 1974)
  • John S. Reed
    John S. Reed
    John Shepard Reed is the former Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of Citicorp, Citibank, and post-merger, Citigroup. He is currently the Chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Office of Corporation. He was born in Chicago, Illinois,...

     - 1984-2000 (co-chair of Citigroup after 1998)
  • Sanford I. Weill
    Sanford I. Weill
    Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill is an American banker, financier and philanthropist. He is a former chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup. He served in those positions until October 1, 2003, and April 18, 2006, respectively....

     - 1998-2006 (co-chair 1998-2000)
  • Charles Prince
    Charles Prince
    Charles O. "Chuck" Prince, III is an American former chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup. He succeeded Sandy Weill as the CEO of the firm in 2003, and as the Chairman of the Board in 2006...

     - 2006-2007 (operating as Citi in 2007)
  • Robert Rubin
    Robert Rubin
    Robert Edward Rubin served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton administrations. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs eventually serving as a member of the Board, and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992...

     - 2007-2007 (November 4-December 11)
  • Win Bischoff
    Winfried Bischoff
    Sir Winfried Franz Wilhen "Win" Bischoff is an Anglo-German banker, who is currently chairman of Lloyds Banking Group plc. He was formerly chairman of Citigroup and previously served as interim CEO of the same company in 2007. He was succeeded as CEO by Vikram Pandit on 11 December 2007. Bischoff...

     - 2007-2009
  • Richard Parsons - 2009-present
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