Ari Barkan

Ari Barkan (New York) joined KKR in 2012 and is a Managing Director in Global Client Solutions. He serves as the Head of the U.S. Central Region for Institutional Client Solutions. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Barkan was a managing director in Credit Suisse Asset Management performing a similar role from 2009 until early 2012. Previously, he spent 12 years at Citigroup where he held both asset management and corporate banking roles. At Citigroup, Mr. Barkan served as a director in the Citi Alternative Distribution Group, chief of staff to the vice chairman of Citigroup and, for six years, held various corporate banking and management positions in Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, Mexico, Hungary, and Australia. Before joining Citigroup, Mr. Barkan worked as an oil and gas equity analyst for Creditanstalt in Russia. Mr. Barkan holds a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Rotary Ambassadorial Fellow at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations.