Karin Risi, head of strategy, product, marketing, and communications at Malvern-based Vanguard Group, will retire at the end of the year after 27 years with the investment management giant, writes Jeff Blumenthal for the Philadelphia Business Journal. 

Vanguard said it does not plan to name a successor and is instead evolving the leadership structure for Risi’s division which is in charge of the company’s global investment product development and oversight, enterprise strategy and business development, and global marketing and communications. 

Risi joined Vanguard in 1997. Since then, she has held various leadership roles. 

She became a part of Vanguard’s senior leadership team in 2015 as managing director of Vanguard Personal Investor. Before now, she served as managing director of Vanguard’s retail investor group. 

A holder of an MBA from Villanova University, Risi helped launch Vanguard’s Women’s Initiative for Leadership Success and has been recognized by Barron’s as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Finance several times. 

Risi said she was “looking forward to this next chapter, and I am extremely proud of the role I’ve played in developing a new generation of leaders and providing investors access to top-quality investment products and affordable advice.” 

Read more about Karin Risi retiring from Vanguard at the year in the Philadelphia Business Journal.

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