By Rebecca Ungarino

Jaime Magyera is steering one of BlackRock's highest-priority initiatives: growing its retirement business.

Magyera leads both companywide efforts to expand savers' access to retirement options, such as a new income feature for target-date funds, and BlackRock's 1,000-person U.S. wealth-advisory arm.

The wealth business, which drives about a quarter of firmwide revenue, connects BlackRock and its wealth management clientele. Last year, Magyera played a key role in establishing a new partnership between BlackRock and Citigroup.

"I'm a connector," she says. "I connect across the firm, I connect relationships, I connect concepts, and then I hand that to our team and say, 'What are we going to do with that?'"

Magyera is on the boards of two companies BlackRock has invested in -- iCapital and 401(k) provider Human Interest -- and was a founding executive member of BlackRock's global mental-health employee program. She is also on the firm's managing-director promotion committee and the investment committee for BlackRock's employee retirement-savings plan.

"I tend to be pretty high energy and optimistic," says Magyera, seated at her desk in BlackRock's New York headquarters, where a picture of a bright yellow sun drawn by her young son hangs behind her.

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