Rudy Garcia, Citigroup

Rudy Garcia is the Director of Business Continuity Management for Citigroup's Corporate and Investment Banking group (CIB), a leading force in the world's capital markets and a unit of Citigroup, the preeminent global financial services company. In this role, Rudy has global responsibility for the CIB's Business Continuity Planning and Crisis Management program.

Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Garcia was the Director of Enterprise Continuity Management for Fleet Boston Financial, the seventh largest bank in the United States. He had firm-wide responsibility for Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management programs covering the institutional, retail banking and financial business units.

Mr. Garcia is a 22-year veteran of Merrill Lynch where he held similar roles and ran the company’s Corporate Response Team. Among other things, the team handled the response activities during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City.

In December 2003, Mr. Garcia was elected Chairman of the SIA Business Continuity Planning Committee, which is responsible for six subcommittees (Command Center, Exchange/Markets, Critical Infrastructure, BCP Best Practice, Industry Testing and Regional Issues) focused on business continuity for the Securities Industry Association (SIA). The committee's mission includes providing a forum for securities firms, industry organizations, and service providers to share specific plans and business continuity information. The committee is also a conduit between the securities industry, government legislators, and regulators and works to coordinate continuity readiness plan activities between the securities industry and the financial sector.

Prior to becoming the SIA Business Continuity Planning Committee Chairman, Mr. Garcia was the Chairman of the Command Center sub-committee for the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Business Continuity Planning Committee.

Mr. Garcia has an extensive background in strategic planning, trading, operations, public sector interaction, business continuity planning and crisis management within the financial services industry.