1. James Dimon is an American businessman who has been the chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase since 2006.
41 Facts About Jamie Dimon
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Jamie Dimon began his career as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
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In 1986, at age of 30, Jamie Dimon was appointed chief financial officer of Commercial Credit and later became the firm's president.
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Jamie Dimon was chief operating officer of both the insurer Travelers and the brokerage firm Smith Barney from 1990 to 1998, when he became president of Citigroup.
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Jamie Dimon then became COO of JPMorgan Chase, assuming the role of CEO in 2006.
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Jamie Dimon was on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the late 2010s.
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Jamie Dimon was included in Time magazine's 2006,2008,2009, and 2011 lists of the world's 100 most influential people.
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Jamie Dimon was born in New York City and grew up in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens.
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Jamie Dimon is one of three sons of Theodore and Themis Dimon, who had Greek ancestry.
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Jamie Dimon's paternal grandfather was a Greek immigrant who had worked as a banker in Smyrna and Athens and later changed the family name from Papademetriou to Dimon.
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Jamie Dimon has an older brother, Peter, and a fraternal twin brother, Ted.
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Jamie Dimon graduated in 1982, earning an MBA as a Baker Scholar.
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At age 30, Jamie Dimon was appointed chief financial officer, helping turn around the company.
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At least one other account cites, as the real reason, a request by Jamie Dimon to be treated as an equal.
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In March 2000, Jamie Dimon became CEO of Bank One, the nation's fifth largest bank.
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When JPMorgan Chase merged with Bank One in July 2004, Jamie Dimon became president and chief operating officer of the combined company.
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In 2009, Jamie Dimon was considered one of "The TopGun CEOs" by Brendan Wood International, an advisory agency.
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In May 2023, Jamie Dimon testified under oath in connection with two lawsuits filed against JPMorgan Chase.
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Jamie Dimon serves on the executive committee of The Business Council, an organization of global CEOs.
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Jamie Dimon was chairman of the organization's executive committee during 2011 and 2012.
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Jamie Dimon described the settlement as "unfair," and said he "had to control his rage" regarding the topic, with most of the government claims against his company being for dealings that took place at companies before JPMorgan Chase bought them, as a result of the financial crisis.
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Jamie Dimon is one of the few bank chief executives to have become a billionaire, largely because of his stake in JPMorgan Chase.
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Jamie Dimon received a $23 million pay package for fiscal year 2011, more than any other bank CEO in the US.
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On January 24,2014, it was announced that Jamie Dimon would receive $20 million for his work in 2013; a year of record profits and stock price under Jamie Dimon's reign, despite significant losses that year due to scandals and payments of fines.
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Jamie Dimon received $34.5 million from JPMorgan Chase in fiscal year 2022, and $36 million in fiscal year 2023.
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Jamie Dimon carries everywhere a sheet of paper on which he writes lists of things to do, things to check up on, and things to remember, which he systematically crosses off.
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Jamie Dimon has said he uses the OODA loop method in scenario evaluation.
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From 1989 to 2009, Jamie Dimon donated primarily to the Democratic Party.
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Jamie Dimon has had close ties to some people in the Obama White House, including former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
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Nonetheless, Jamie Dimon has often publicly disagreed with some of Obama's policies.
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In December 2016, Jamie Dimon joined a business forum assembled by then president-elect Donald Trump to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues.
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Jamie Dimon criticized the US federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic under Trump in a letter to shareholders which criticized the state of education, health care and social safety nets in the United States.
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In 2018 Jamie Dimon "thought about thinking about" starting his own presidential campaign, but decided that it would be too unpopular to succeed.
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In 2021, Trump complained that Jamie Dimon was "not a patriot" because of his company's business in China.
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Jamie Dimon clarified that he has no plans to run for office at this time, and that he is happy with his current leading position in JPMorgan Chase, where he expects to stay for three and a half more years.
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In November 2023, Jamie Dimon said he preferred Nikki Haley over Donald Trump as the Republican nominee in the 2024 US presidential election.
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However, in October 2024, The New York Times reported that Jamie Dimon was privately supporting Harris' 2024 campaign.
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Jamie Dimon has previously said that the tariffs were a threat to the US economy.
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In March 2025, amid a worsening economic outlook due to Trump's tariff threats, Jamie Dimon said that tariffs contributed to uncertainty in the markets.
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In 1983, Jamie Dimon married Judith Kent, whom he met at Harvard Business School.
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Jamie Dimon received eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy ending in September 2014.