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ALUMNA ENDOWS
TRANSFORMATIONAL
MBA SCHOLARSHIP
Rose Cohen, MBA ’03, says her Smith MBA
experience was “transformational for me
and, as my husband always reminds me,
our best investment ever!” That’s why she
and her husband, Robert, endowed an MBA
scholarship—to give others a chance to see the
impact a graduate degree can have on a career.
Cohen credits Smith’s MBA program for her
leadership and team-building skills, calling her
degree a “tremendous” opportunity that was
pivotal in her career development.
She was 14 years into a banking career when she
entered Smith’s full-time MBA program, planning
to make a career pivot. Instead, she used the
degree to launch ahead in the banking industry.
Cohen’s next chapter saw her transition to
private banking, advising ultra high-net-worth
banking clients 昀椀rst at J.P. Morgan for a decade,
then at Citibank for the past nine years. She led
Citi’s mid-Atlantic region private bank division.
“I’m very proud of the team and the culture I
created within my team at Citi,” she says. “There
was a lot of trust among the team members and
signi昀椀cant focus on leveraging different people’s
strengths to bene昀椀t our clients.”
Cohen recently stepped
back from her day-to-day
role at Citi to spend more
time with her family and
work with boards.
She previously served on
the Smith Advisory Board
and currently serves as
a trustee and executive
committee member
of the University of
Maryland College
Park Foundation.
Photo provided by Rose Cohen
Photo provided by University of Maryland Athletics
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