Mr. DeRoma began his career in the 1970s at Citibank’s corporate finance department in strategic planning, private placements and mergers and acquisitions. He helped pioneer one of the first strategic planning services for Citibank corporate finance clients. He then spent the next 20 years in senior positions in fixed-income trading for a number of financial institutions, including Citibank, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital and Keybank-McDonald Investments, managing large components of their domestic and foreign fixed-income trading, sales, derivatives, research, underwritings and foreign exchange businesses. He served as the President of Barclay’s U.S. securities business, was senior advisor to the U.S. Asset Liability Committee and chaired the U.S. Credit and Risk Management Committee.