Add Jennifer Piepszak to the shortlist of potential successors to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon; her April 2019 ascension to the position of CFO at the bank confirmed that she’s on track for higher things. Prior to the new appointment, she was the CEO of the bank’s card services business, a role in which she secured the exclusive rights to issue the Amazon Prime credit card. Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that Piepszak is well known at the bank for her email tag, “#GSD,” i.e., “getting shit done.”
A 25-year veteran of JPMorgan, the 49-year-old Piepszak joined the bank shortly after graduating from Connecticut’s Fairfield University in in 1992. She has risen methodically through the ranks; in addition to holding a variety of roles in the corporate and investment bank, Piepszak was CFO of JPMorgan’s mortgage unit and also ran its business banking operation.
Piepszak succeeds Marianne Lake, who was promoted to run the bank’s consumer banking businesses—and who is another contender for the CEO spot.