Maria G. Gotsch
Senior Vice President, NYC Investment Fund

Maria G. Gotsch is a Senior Vice President at the New York City Investment Fund and also serves as President of the Fund's Civic Capital Corporation, which manages the Fund's charitable investments. The Fund provides financial and strategic assistance to businesses and nonprofit projects that create jobs, revitalize communities and contribute to growth sectors of the city's economy.

Prior to joining the Fund in 1999, Ms. Gotsch was a Managing Director at BT Wolfensohn (now part of Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown), providing strategic and financial advice related to mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and the development of business strategies. Before starting with Wolfensohn in 1992, Ms. Gotsch was an Associate at LaSalle Partners where she directed and managed commercial office relocation projects for corporations in the New York area. From 1984 to 1987, she served as an Associate for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York and London and directed the execution of a wide range of equity and debt Euro-financings.

Ms. Gotsch is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and holds a B.A.degree in political science and French from Wellesley College. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 1983 to study international relations at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland.