About Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon is an American banker and businessman. He has been the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of JPMorgan Chase since 2006. Dimon began his career as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group. After earning an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1982, he joined American Express with an early mentor, Sandy Weill, working there until 1985. Jamie Dimon was appointed chief financial officer (CFO) of Commercial Credit in 1986, at the age of 30, and later became the firm's president. He was the chief operating officer (COO) of both insurer Travelers and brokerage firm Smith Barney from 1990 to 1998, becoming the president of Citigroup in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed the CEO of Bank One, overseeing its operations until its merger with JPMorgan Chase in 2004. Dimon then became the COO of JPMorgan Chase, assuming the role of CEO in 2006. Jamie Dimon was on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the late 2010s. Since then, Dimon has been a board member of the Business Roundtable, the Bank Policy Institute, and Harvard Business School. Dimon was included in Time magazine's 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011 lists of the world's 100 most influential people. As of February 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at $2 billion. Jamie Dimon was born in New York City and grew up in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens. He is one of three sons of Theodore and Themis (née Kalos) Dimon, who had Greek ancestry. His paternal grandfather was a Greek immigrant who worked as a banker in Smyrna and Athens, and changed the family name from Papademetriou to Dimon. Jamie Dimon has an older brother, Peter, and a fraternal twin brother, Ted. Both his father and grandfather were stockbrokers at Shearson. He attended the Browning School and majored in psychology and economics at Tufts University, where he graduated summa cum laude. At Tufts, Dimon wrote an essay on Shearson's mergers; his mother sent the paper to Sandy Weill, who hired Dimon to work at Shearson during one summer break, doing budgets. After graduating, he worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group for two years before enrolling at Harvard Business School. During the summer at Harvard, he worked at Goldman Sachs. Jamie Dimon graduated in 1982, earning an MBA as a Baker Scholar. After graduation from Harvard Business School, Sandy Weill convinced him to turn down offers from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers to join him as an assistant at American Express. Although Weill could not offer the same amount of money as the investment banks, he promised Dimon that he would have "fun." Dimon's father, Theodore Dimon, was an executive vice president at American Express.