Obie L. McKenzie Receives 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award at Rising Stars Youth Foundation Gala

Englewood, New Jersey Resident Obie L. McKenzie, Managing Director at Black Rock is the recipient of the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 11th Annual Rising Stars Youth Foundation Gala held recently at the New York Athletic Club in New York City.

McKenzie recognized as 75 most powerful blacks on Wall Street has nearly 40 years of experience in asset management, commercial and investment banking, trade finance, corporate treasury, and brokerage. He has served at BlackRock, one of the largest publicly traded investment management firms in the country with over $4 trillion in assets under management, for more than six years. McKenzie ran his own firm, McKenzie & Co., in the mid1980s and was a founding board member of the National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP).

Since 1972, Obie L. McKenzie has served the financial services industry in asset management, commercial banking, trade finance, investment banking, corporate treasury and brokerage. Mr. McKenzie is currently a Managing Director at BlackRock in the Global Client Group. BlackRock is the largest publicly traded investment management firm in the United States.

During his career, he has held positions as Managing Director at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (1990-2006) Executive Director at UBS Asset Management and Managing Director at Chase Investors (1987 to l990). From 1984 to1987, Mr. McKenzie was President and founder of McKenzie & Company, an NASD registered broker dealer. During the late 1970's and early 1980's, Mr. McKenzie held positions at Citibank, Chemical Bank and Freedom National Bank as a commercial banker. Mr. McKenzie was also Manager of Banking and Pensions at the New York Times in 1975 and Corporate Finance Associate for Morgan Stanley in 1972.

Mr. McKenzie has served as President of the Association of Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE); founding board member of the TOIGO Foundation and Associate Advisor to the Texas Association of Public Employees Retirement Systems (TEXPERS). He was also a founding board member of the National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP), where he received the Wall Street Hall of Fame Award in 2001. Mr. McKenzie is a published writer, an accomplished public speaker and vocalist and has been an Expository Bible teacher for over 20 years. Mr. McKenzie graduated from Tennessee State University in 1967 and received his MBA in Finance from Harvard Business School in 1972.

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