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Vivek Kagzi

Director

Vivek Kagzi is a Director in Citi's Municipal Securities Division, having worked there since 2005. Through the course of his career, Vivek has been a structured products and municipal derivatives specialist, now concentrating on arranging financing solutions for tax‐exempt clients, making renewable energy and energy efficiency investments, and working on new product initiatives across the division.Vivek's broad‐based experience and extensive product knowledge allows Citi to provide integrated capital market solutions to the firm’s clients seeking specialized finance solutions. Vivek is also currently involved in the firm’s efforts to raise capital and invest in $50 billion in renewable and energy efficiency assets and has closed transactions that will generate over 250MW of solar and wind energy when completed. In his time at Citi, Vivek has also been instrumental in the development of various products, including municipal credit index tranches and credit linked notes, structuring an over $500mm portfolio of FX‐denominated fund‐linked notes, and managing a $3.5bn tax credit investment book. Vivek has also structured financing alternatives for a variety of infrastructure projects, including a water pipeline, a bridge, wind farms and various photovoltaic systems.Finally, Vivek is also an active member of Citi's global Citi for Cities effort, supporting the world's cities in their ambition to transform, modernize infrastructure, improve efficiency, and foster sustainable growth and prosperity. Mr. Kagzi has an undergraduate degree in Economics and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.