Managing Director at BlackRock, the largest publicly traded investment management firm in the United States and part of the Global Client Group, McKenzie has been instrumental in gathering more than $50 billion of institutional assets for several firms, municipalities and state governments. Bible that are about money. Ultimately people will discover that the laws of man’s economy are completely different from the laws in God’s economy and they can choose one or the other.” Managing Director at BlackRock, the largest publicly traded investment management firm in the United States and part of the Global Client Group, McKenzie has been instrumental in gathering more than $50 billion of institutional assets for several firms, municipalities and state governments. In 2011, Black Enterprise magazine honored him as one of the 75 Most Powerful Blacks on Wall Street and two years later he was named Public Fund Marketer of the Year by Money Management Intelligence. He has received many awards, among them the 2014 Urban Angel Award from New York Theoloogical Seminary as one who has made thepositivecommunity.com
extraordinary and positive contributions to the life of the City. And McKenzie is making a difference by making this a world more clearly resembling what God intends. He is an exceptional role model, who exemplifies the wisdom in following the path he has chosen. He is a sought after speaker, a teacher and a vocalist. His message, as fresh and as necessary as the day he began preaching it 30 years ago, is resounding. Even as he continues to navigate in the economy of Wall Street, it is clear that McKenzie has chosen to live by the laws of God’s economy. McKenzie resides in Englewood, New Jersey with his wife Natalie Bowen-McKenzie. He is the proud father of one daughter, Keisha McKenzie-Pagden, and grandfather to Samuel McKenzie-Pagden. April 2016 The Positive Community
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