Driss Temsamani

Temsamani joined Citigroup in 1995 as a senior consultant. Before that he was operations director at Telemundo from 1993 to 1995, and earlier worked at Globe Magazine and Worldcare International Insurance.

At Citigroup, Temsamani has led e-business (2000–2002), marketing and market management (2008–2012), the innovation group (2012–2017), and commercial banking for Latin America (2017–2021). He led the launch of Citi's digital account in Latin America and has worked with central banks and regulators on digital policy, financial inclusion, digital assets, blockchain, and artificial intelligence in the financial system.

Temsamani was born in Tangier, Morocco and is currently based in Miami, Florida. Before migrating to the US, he faced academic challenges and was nearly sent to a military academy. Seeing military school as an undesirable option, he decided to leave the country in 1986 at the age of 17 and immigrated to the United States with $200 in his pockets and without a strong command of the English language. While working, he took night classes to learn English and later enrolled in electronics courses, where he was first introduced to computers. In the following years, Temsamani enrolled himself in business studies. He is a holder of an MBA from Ohio State University, an Executive MBA in Industrial marketing from IAE Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires, Argentina and an Executive Leadership from Harvard.