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Jamie Dimon is an American businessman who has served as chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase since 2006. Under his leadership, JPMorgan Chase became the leading U.S. bank by domestic assets under management, market capitalization, and publicly traded stock value.
Dimon was president of Citigroup in 1998, having helped build it through a series of mergers with his mentor Sandy Weill. He left in November 1998 after Weill asked him to resign during a weekend executive retreat; accounts differ on whether the cause was his failure to promote Weill's daughter or his demand to be treated as an equal.
On the 10th of May, 2012, JPMorgan Chase disclosed losses of at least two billion dollars in trades Dimon described as "designed to hedge the bank's overall credit risks." He called the strategy "flawed, complex, poorly reviewed, poorly executed and poorly monitored." The losses ultimately reached six billion dollars and drew investigations from the Federal Reserve, the SEC, and the FBI.
Forbes estimates Dimon's net worth at three billion dollars as of December 2025. He is one of the few bank chief executives to have become a billionaire, largely because of his stake in JPMorgan Chase.
Dimon was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and completed eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy by September of that year. In March 2020, at age sixty-three, he underwent emergency heart surgery to repair an acute aortic dissection and returned to work remotely in April 2020.
Dimon donated primarily to the Democratic Party from 1989 to 2009 but described himself as "barely a Democrat" in 2012. He has supported and criticized leaders of both parties, campaigning against Brexit in 2016 with Conservative Chancellor George Osborne, joining Trump's business forum in December 2016, and privately supporting Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race according to The New York Times.