14 Facts About Jes Staley

James Edward "Jes" Staley was born on December 27,1956 and is an American banker, and the former group chief executive of Barclays.

Jes Staley was born on December 27,1956 in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1979, after graduation, Jes Staley joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.

In 2009, Jes Staley was promoted to chief executive of the Investment Bank.

However, on October 28,2015, it was announced that Jes Staley would become group chief executive of Barclays, effective December 1,2015.

Jes Staley is a former trustee of Bowdoin College, serves on the board of the United States-China Business Council, and is a member of the advisory board of the American Museum of Natural History.

In May 2017, "email prankster" James Linton began his spree with Jes Staley pranked with an acrostic alluding to the whistleblower affair.

In February 2020, the FCA announced an investigation into whether Jes Staley was "fit and proper" to lead Barclays, due to concerns over his previous disclosures of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

On 1 November, 2021, Jes Staley announced his departure from Barclays, as a result of his associations with Epstein.

In January 2023, it was reported that Jes Staley was named in a lawsuit against JP Morgan which alleged that JP Morgan had enabled Epstein's behaviour.

The suit alleged Jes Staley knew Epstein was trafficking women and that he personally witnessed Epstein abusing an underage girl.

In May 2023, in legal papers, Jes Staley claimed that JP Morgan's chief executive Jamie Dimon and he had discussed business with Epstein, despite the fact that Dimon denied under oath ever having involvement with Epstein as a client.

Jes Staley denies the allegations, claiming unfair treatment in the Britain's Financial Conduct Authority decision.

Jes Staley has reportedly been a big advocate for diversity since discovering that his brother Peter Jes Staley had been diagnosed with HIV.