Biography
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Steve Black is Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase, reporting to Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. He is a member of JPMorgan Chase's Operating Committee and Executive Committee. He became Executive Chairman in September 2009 after serving as co-CEO of the Investment Bank for five years. He was named Vice Chairman of the firm in January 2010. |
Prior to his role as co-CEO of the Investment Bank, he was deputy co-CEO since 2003. Before that, he was head of the Global Equities business since joining the firm in the spring of 2000, following a career with Citigroup and its predecessor firms.
During the five years Mr. Black served as co-CEO, J.P. Morgan's Investment Bank achieved #1 rankings in the most important capital raising league tables: global debt, equity & equity-related; global debt; global equity; and global loans, as well as #1 in global investment banking fees.
Mr. Black began his career at Smith Barney in 1974 as a trainee. He worked as a trader and managed trading businesses for a number of years before being named head of the Tax Exempt Securities Group in 1988. In 1991, he became head of Global Capital Markets and in 1993, was elected Vice Chairman. In 1996, he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of the firm. After the Smith Barney merger with Salomon Brothers, he was named Vice Chairman, responsible for Global Equities, Tax Exempt Securities and Securities Lending. He continued to hold these responsibilities at the time of the Citigroup merger with Salomon Smith Barney in 1998. He was a member of the Salomon Smith Barney Executive Committee and the Travelers and Citigroup Planning Committee.
Mr. Black graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in political science.