Joe DeVico

Joe DeVico

Head of the Americas Client Business, Co-Head of U.S. Wealth Advisory

Joe DeVico, Senior Managing Director, is Head of the Americas Client Business, Co-Head of U.S. Wealth Advisory (USWA), and a member of the Global Executive Committee for BlackRock.

Joe leads the teams responsible for BlackRock's commercial relationships and strategic partnerships with executives and financial advisors at wealth management firms and advisory platforms in the U.S., and with institutional clients in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. These teams are responsible for distributing BlackRock's alpha-seeking and iShares investment capabilities, and for driving the adoption of BlackRock's portfolio construction, personalized solutions, digital wealth technologies, and Outsourced CIO (OCIO) mandates across the whole portfolio.

Joe is also responsible for BlackRock’s defined contribution and retirement insurance businesses, overseeing the development and distribution of investment strategies and services to institutional clients, consultants, and financial advisors – reaching over 80,000 plans, including over 60% of the Fortune 100, and ultimately reaching more than 40 million Americans.

Joe previously served as Head of the National Wealth Manager Business at BlackRock where he led the Independent, Wirehouse, Registered Investment Advisor (RIA), and Private Bank businesses as well as the Leveraged Sales organization. Prior to that, Joe was the Head of the Independent Channel business and the Internal Sales organization for USWA. He was the National Sales Manager for the US Private Client business, Head of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management (GWM) International Sales, and was responsible for BlackRock's sales organization covering Merrill Lynch Latin America, Europe, Asia, Middle East, and USNRC.

Prior to BlackRock, Joe was also the Head of GWM Global Strategic Sales & Client Service at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), providing GWM financial advisors and branch management around the world with sales support and problem resolution, where he was responsible for the GWM Global Sales Desk, GWM Segmented Sales, GWM Sales Compliance, GWM Sales Operations/Problem Resolution and the GWM Sales Administrative Staff. Before joining MLIM/BlackRock in 2000, Joe was a Vice President at Scudder-Kemper Investments (now DWS) in Chicago.