James A. Forese is the Chief Executive Officer of Securities and Banking in Citi's Institutional Client Group.

Mr. Forese is the chair of the Risk Management Committee of the Institutional Clients Group. He is based in New York.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Forese was the co-head of Global Markets, with responsibility for managing the sales, trading and capital raising activities across Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities, Equities and Municipal Securities.

He first joined the firm's Salomon Brothers division in 1985 and was named a Managing Director in 1992.

Mr. Forese graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science. He and his wife, Jennifer, have four sons.