Citi promotes Gutiérrez-Orrantia to head EMEA banking, capital markets and advisory -memo

Reuters

Published May 17, 2021 07:28AM ET

By Pamela Barbaglia

LONDON (Reuters) - Citigroup (NYSE:C) has promoted Ignacio Gutiérrez-Orrantia, one of its most senior bankers in Madrid, to lead its banking, capital markets and advisory (BCMA) franchise for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a memo seen by Reuters shows.

Gutiérrez-Orrantia, 49, has been at Citi for 17 years and will replace Philip Drury, who is moving to San Francisco to lead the bank's global technology and communications advisory unit.

Gutiérrez-Orrantia will join Citi's EMEA operating committee and BCMA senior leadership committees globally while also becoming the senior manager responsible for BCMA for the bank's UK legal entities.