All About Jamie Dimon - JP Morgan & Chase CEO

Welcome to the Investors Trading Academy event of the week. Each week our staff of educators tries to introduce you to a person of interest in the financial world. This could be a person in government or banking or an important investors or trader. This video will focus on Jamie Dimon. If you are an avid reader or follower of the financial news headlines this name will familiar but otherwise Mr. Dimon is keeps to himself. Jamie Dimon is one of the most powerful people in finance. In 2006, he was president and CEO of JPMorgan Chase; he also became chairman of the board in 2007. Jamie Dimon was born in New York City on March 13, 1956. A third-generation stockbroker, Dimon started his career working with Sandy Weill at American Express. After personal friction led to his parting ways with Weill, Dimon joined Bank One. This bank would merge with JPMorgan Chase, creating a financial giant that Dimon came to lead as president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board. James Dimon grew up splitting his time between a Park Avenue apartment and the suburb of Larchmont in New York state&affluent Westchester County. Finance was the family business: Dimon&father and grandfather were both stockbrokers. Dimon graduated from Tufts University in 1978 and later enrolled in Harvard Business School, where he established himself as a star student. In the spring of 1998, a merger between Travelers and Citicorp resulted in the formation of Citigroup, company that would go on to become a...