Profile pic not displayed in civimail
Based on the content you provided, the problem I see is the src is missing from the image tag.  Be sure the URL you use is fully formed including the domain, ala, src='http://mysite.com/.....'     (Well, actually, you don't have a img tag in there.... I think you meant for the i tag to be the image??)

The href you have on the anchor tag has this problem, with the URL not including the actual URL.  

Once you get the src set on the image, and if it's still not working, post the HTML from that source view.