Mark McKenna

Mark R. McKenna, Managing Director, is Founder and Global Head of Event Driven. Mr. McKenna is responsible for managing BlackRock's event-driven investing efforts.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2014, Mr. McKenna was a managing director at Harvard Management Company (HMC) and co-founder of HMC's event driven fund. From 2004 to 2009, Mr. McKenna was portfolio manager of the event driven strategy at Caxton Associates, LLC. Previous to Caxton, Mr. McKenna spent five years at Citigroup's Global and Corporate Investment Bank as a vice president in mergers and acquisitions. Before graduate school, Mr. McKenna served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy's Nuclear Submarine Force, where he conducted strategic deterrent patrols onboard the USS Ohio and was a certified nuclear engineer by the Department of Naval Reactors.

Mr. McKenna earned a B.Engr. in electrical engineering from New York Maritime College and an MBA, with distinction, from NYU.