Kerri Burgess joined Spencer Stuart in 2001 as a consultant and leads the financial services practice in Australia and New Zealand. She has over 18 years of local and international experience in financial services and has worked in senior executive roles in both line management and staff functions in Australia, Singapore, New York and London.
Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Kerri had a long career with Citigroup in Australia. From 1995 to 2001 she served as head of strategy and business development, financial institutions group head, and chief of staff for Citigroup's corporate bank. During this time she serviced as a company appointed trustee for Citigroup’s Superannuation Fund in Australia.
In 1998, after Citicorp merged with Traveller's Group, she was selected for a special global team tasked with identifying cross-sell opportunities for the newly merged consumer, corporate and investment banks. From 1992 to 1994, Kerri set up a structured products marketing group for Asia and Europe as part of Citibank's investment bank activities in London. From 1989 to 1992, she was a director of Citibank's Asia Pacific Banking Institute in Singapore, responsible for entry level training for nine Asia Pacific countries.
Kerri's earlier career was as derivatives head in Citibank Melbourne, various Citibank treasury sales and trading roles in Sydney, and a solicitor for 18 months with Clayton Utz, a large legal firm in Sydney. She has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney and is an associate of the Securities Institute of Australia. .