Darcie Burk

External Director

Darcie enjoyed a distinguished and successful career in the financial services industry at both Merrill Lynch and Citibank from 1981 to 2017. She spent 28 years with Merrill Lynch, starting her career at the Office of the Treasurer and later working at various Capital Markets trading desks where she ran the Global Fixed Income and Equity Agency teams for the International Private Client Group. Darcie subsequently held several senior management roles in the International Private Client Group, including Head of North Latin America Sales, Manager of the Beverly Hills International Office, Head of Regional Sales for Asia, Global Head of International Private Client Marketing and the Head of Merrill Lynch’s US Asian Complexes. During her last seven years at Merrill Lynch, Darcie ran the Latin America Wealth Management Business and served as a member of Merrill Lynch’s Executive Management Team for the Americas.

In 2010, Darcie joined Citi Private Bank as the COO for Global Managed Investments and then became the Global Investments COO. She worked in the formulation and execution of the Private Bank’s Investment strategy. Darcie was instrumental in helping to define the client coverage model, the globalization of the regional businesses and in simplifying Citi Private Bank’s discretionary and advisory services. Darcie also led several critical initiatives in client performance reporting, technology and some of the firm’s most essential risk and regulatory projects.

Darcie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Arts and English Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management.