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Deborah Wright

American banker (born 1958)

Deborah C. Wright (born 1958) is a board member of Citigroup Inc. (Audit, Consumer Compliance and Ethics and Culture Committees), Time Warner, Inc.²

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Born 1958.¹

About

(Audit Committee Chair) and Voya Financial (Finance Committee Chair). She is a member of the Board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Executive Committee and Audit Chair).

From Wikipedia’s article on Deborah Wright, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

CitigroupBoard member 2017 to 2022⁸
WarnerMediaBoard member May 10, 2006 to Jun 18, 2018⁹
Voya FinancialBoard member May 28, 2014 to May 31, 2018¹⁰
Carver Bancorp, Inc.Chief executive officer Sep 22, 2006 to Dec 10, 2014¹¹
Carver Bancorp, Inc.Chair Sep 22, 2006 to Dec 10, 2014¹¹
Mondelez InternationalBoard member May 1, 2006 to May 20, 2010¹²
Carver Bancorp, Inc.President Sep 22, 2006 to Jul 29, 2008¹¹
Carver Bancorp, Inc.Board member May 15, 2007 to Jun 19, 2007¹³

Holdings

Stock this person has reported owning, from the forms officers and directors file with the SEC. See the biggest insider stakes.

Shares held

Citigroup C14,017 shares¹⁴$1.7M at $123.45Apr 1, 2022

As of each latest filing. The line shows shares held over time.

Recent filings

Apr 1, 2022Granted 22 shares at $56.20 of Citigroup¹⁴
Feb 10, 2022Granted 2,255 shares of Citigroup¹⁵
Jan 1, 2022Granted 36 shares at $62.06 of Citigroup¹⁶
Oct 1, 2021Granted 32 shares at $70.46 of Citigroup¹⁷

Early life and education

Date not recordedHarvard Law School³
Date not recordedHarvard Business School³

Career

Occupation: banker.⁵

2017 to 2022Board member, Citigroup⁴

Wright was a senior fellow in the Economic Opportunity and Assets Division of the Ford Foundation from January 2015 through June 2016. Established in 1936, the foundation is an independent, global organization.

Wright was previously non-executive chairman of the board of Carver Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ - CARV) from January 2014 until December 2016, where she served as chairman and CEO from February 2005 to December 2014 and president and CEO from June 1, 1999. Carver Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank, a federally chartered savings bank, and the nation's largest publicly traded African- and Caribbean- American operated bank, with approximately $700 million in assets and branches serving inner city neighborhoods in Harlem, Brooklyn and Queens. Black Enterprise Magazine named Carver "Financial Services Company of the Year" in 2006. The American Banker named Wright "Community Banker of the Year" in December 2003 and U.S. Banker named Wright one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking in October 2010.

She was president and CEO of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone from 1996 to 1999 and led development and execution of an investment strategy to expand Harlem's economy, by investing a $250 million capital budget, funded by the public sector, to expand local businesses and cultural institutions.

Wright was appointed Commissioner of The Department of Housing Preservation and Development in 1994 by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, where she implemented an unprecedented privatization of residential buildings owned and managed by the City of New York. Mayor David N. Dinkins previously appointed her to the board of the New York City Housing Authority and the New York City Planning Commission. Wright began her professional career at the First Boston Corporation and the Partnership for New York City.

She previously served on the Harvard University Board of Overseers, the board of The Children's Defense Fund and Kraft Foods Inc. She was a founding boardmember of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, charged with rebuilding lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

Wright earned A.B., J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University. She was raised in Bennettsville, South Carolina and Dallas, Texas.