Obie McKenzie
Obie McKenzie
Obie McKenzie is a Managing Director in the largest institutional asset management firm in the United States, BlackRock, [2] Obie McKenzie studied at Tennessee State University, 1967. He then proceeded to study for his masters in Harvard Business School in 1972, where he got his Master of Business Administration (MBA) [3]
Career
Over the last 30 years Obie McKenzie has experienced tremendous growth as an institutional asset management marketing executive, where he played a major role in gathering institutional assets for several firms.
In his role as a senior relationship manager for BlackRock, he is wholly responsible for managing relationships with some of the largest pension funds in the United States, to include the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, New York City Employees’ Retirement System, and the Federal Reserve Employee Benefits System and many more.
During his career he held several positions as:
Managing Director at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (1990- 2006)
Executive Director at UBS Asset Management and Managing Director at Chase Investors (1987-1990)
McKenzie was President and founder of McKenzie & Company, an NASD registered broker dealer, 1984-1987
Commercial Banker at Citibank, Chemical Bank, and Freedom National Bank
Manager of Banking and Pensions at the New York Times in 1975 and began his career as a Corporate Finance Associate for Morgan Stanley in 1972.
Associations
Obie served as President of the Association of Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE)
He is a 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.
He was also a received the Wall Street Award for Service to Children from the New York Mission Society in 2006.
Mr Mckenzie serves on the following boards :
New York Theological Seminary
Tennessee State University
Trinity Health-New England
The Cogsville Group
Girls Who Invest
Curtis D. Robinson Center For Health Equity.
Relationship
McKenzie is a seasoned public speaker and vocalist and he also a Senior Bible teacher at Canaan Baptist Church, Harlem. He is writing a book entitled “Bible Economics - Things I Wish I Had Known” where he documents his 42 years experience on Wall Street and his spiritual understanding about what the Bible teaches on money, which he has developed from his 30 plus years of studying and teaching the Bible. The book is yet to be published.
Personal
McKenzie lives in Englewood, New Jersey with his wife Natalie Bowen-McKenzie. He is a one daughter, Keisha McKenzie-Pagden and grandfather to Samuel McKenzie-Pagden.