Biography
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Jes Staley is the CEO of J.P. Morgan's Investment Bank. He is a member of JPMorgan Chase's Executive Committee and Operating Committee, the decision-making group for day-to-day strategic and operating matters of the firm. He was most recently CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, one of the largest asset and wealth managers in the world with over $1.5 trillion of assets under supervision. |
Mr. Staley led J.P. Morgan's expansion into alternatives, including J.P. Morgan's strategic partnership with Highbridge Capital Management.
Mr. Staley joined J.P. Morgan in 1979 after graduating from Bowdoin College with a degree in economics. From 1980 to 1989, he worked in the bank's Latin America division, where he served as head of corporate finance for Brazil and general manager of the company's Brazilian brokerage firm. Eight of these years were spent in São Paulo.
He was one of the founding members of J.P. Morgan's equities business, which consolidated the firm's extension into investment banking in the early 1990's. He ran Equity Capital Markets and Syndicate.
In 1999, Mr. Staley was tapped to head J.P. Morgan's Private Bank, which under his leadership improved profitability threefold in two years. Late in 2001, he was promoted to his previous position, adding the asset management business to his responsibilities.
Mr. Staley and his wife have two daughters and live in Manhattan. He is an avid sailor and sits on the American Museum of Natural History's Advisory Council and the Board of Trustees of Bowdoin College.