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Head of Citi Private Equity leaves after nine years

John Barber, head of Citi Private Equity, is leaving the firm after 14 years with the group and nine years as head of the private equity business, which was known as Salomon Smith Barne

John Barber, head of Citi Private Equity, is leaving the firm after 14 years with the group and nine years as head of the private equity business, which was known as Salomon Smith Barney Capital Partners until the beginning of 2002.

Under the division of Citigroup announced earlier this month, Citi Private Equity, which encompasses funds of funds, co-investment and mezzanine activity, will become part of Citi Holdings along with the group’s other asset management businesses, while the banking business remains under the Citigroup brand.

The unit, with offices in London and New York, has made more than 300 fund investments and 75 direct investments. Funds it has invested in include ones managed by Apax Partners, Providence Equity Partners and Carlyle Group.

Barber has been the managing partner of Citi Private Equity, a division of Citigroup Investments, since 2002. From September 2000 to January 2002, he was co-head of Citigroup employee funds of funds and Salomon Smith Barney Capital Partners.

From January 1995 to September 2000, Barber was deputy head of the financial entrepreneurs group, a senior member of the equity capital markets group and a member of the commitment committee at Salomon Smith Barney, which he joined in 1995 as a managing director.

Previously he was managing director and head of the equity capital markets group at Kidder Peabody.

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