Citi said it appointed Gerry Keefe as head of corporate banking Asia Pacific. In this newly created role, Keefe will assume responsibility for all corporate banking activities in the region including the financial institutions, public sector group, and global subsidiaries group franchises.

 

Keefe is currently Citi’s Japan corporate bank head and will move to Hong Kong during the second quarter to assume his new role. He will report to Mark Slaughter, head of Asia Pacific corporate and investment banking and Michael Roberts, global head of corporate banking.

 

Keefe joined Citi in 2006 from Dechert LLP where he was a partner in their structured finance practice. He became a managing director in 2009 and in 2010, named the head of banking and origination for Citi’s securitized products business in the US. In 2014, Keefe was appointed to his current role as the corporate banking head in Japan.