Members of the Board
Director |
Board Committees |
Crandall C. Bowles
Chairman
Springs Industries, Inc.
(Director since 2006, JP Morgan Chase)
|
Audit Committee |
Stephen B. Burke
President
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.
(Director since 2003, JP Morgan Chase
or predecessor institution)
|
Compensation & Management Development Committee
Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee |
David M. Cote
Chairman and CEO
Honeywell International, Inc.
(Director since 2007, JP Morgan Chase) |
Public Responsibility Committee
Risk Policy Committee |
James S. Crown
President
Henry Crown and Company
(Director since 1991, JP Morgan Chase
or predecessor institution) |
Public Responsibility Committee (Chairman)
Risk Policy Committee |
James Dimon
Chairman of the Board and CEO
(Director since 2000, JP Morgan Chase
or predecessor institution) |
|
Ellen V. Futter
President and Trustee
American Museum of Natural History
(Director since 1997, JP Morgan Chase
or predecessor institution) |
Public Responsibility Committee
Risk Policy Committee |
William H. Gray, III
Co-Chairman
GrayLoeffler, LLC
(Director since 1992, JP Morgan Chase
or predecessor institution) |
Audit Committee
Public Responsibility Committee (Chairman) |
Laban P. Jackson, Jr.
Chairman and CEO
Clear Creek Properties, Inc.
(Director since 1993, JP Morgan Chase
or predecessor institution) |
Audit Committee (Chairman) |
David C. Novak
Chairman and CEO
Yum! Brands, Inc.
(Director since 2001, JP Morgan Chase
or predecessor institution) |
Compensation & Management Development Committee
Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee (Chairman) |
Lee R. Raymond
Retired Chairman and CEO
Exxon Mobil Corporation
(Director since 1987, JP Morgan Chase
or predecessor institution) |
Compensation & Management Development Committee (Chairman)
Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee |
William C. Weldon
Chairman and CEO
Johnson & Johnson
(Director since 2005, JP Morgan Chase) |
Compensation & Management Development Committee
Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee |
Other Board Committees
In addition to the committees mentioned above, the Board has one Stock Committee and a Board-level Executive Committee.
The Stock Committee, which acted two times in 2007, consists of James Dimon. Its authority includes the declaration of dividends, authorization of the issuance of stock within Board-approved limitations, administration of the dividend reinvestment plan and implementation of share repurchase plans in accordance with Board-approved capital plans.
The Board-level Executive Committee consists of James S. Crown, James Dimon, William H. Gray, III, Laban P. Jackson, Jr., David C. Novak and Lee R. Raymond. It may exercise all the powers of the Board that lawfully may be delegated. The Board-level Executive Committee was established with the expectation that it would not take material actions absent special circumstances. There were no meetings of the Board-level Executive Committee in 2006 or 2007.
Contacting Board Members
To contact any Board member or committee chair, please mail your correspondence to: JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Attention (Board member)
Office of the Secretary
270 Park Avenue, 38th Floor
NY, NY 10017
Biographies
Mrs. Bowles has been Chairman of Springs Industries, Inc. since 1998 and a member of its board since 1978. From 1998 until 2006, she was also Chief Executive Officer of Springs Industries, Inc. Subsequent to a spinoff and merger in 2006, she was Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of Springs Global Participacoes S.A., a textile home furnishings company, until July 2007. She is also a member of the board of directors of Deere & Company and Sara Lee Corporation. Mrs. Bowles is a graduate of Wellesley College and earned an MBA from Columbia University. She serves on the board of the Carolina Thread Trail. She is a member of The Business Council, the Committee of 200, and the South Carolina Climate, Energy and Commerce Advisory Committee.
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Mr. Burke joined Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. (cable television) as President in 1998. Prior to 1998, he was with The Walt Disney Company from 1986. Mr. Burke is a graduate of Colgate University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Burke is also a director of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. He is Chairman of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Mr. Cote has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell International Inc. (diversified technology and manufacturing) since July 2002. He joined Honeywell as President and Chief Executive Officer in February 2002. Prior to joining Honeywell, he was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TRW Inc. which he joined in 1999. Mr. Cote is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration. He received an honorary Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine University in 2001.
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Mr. Crown joined Henry Crown and Company (diversified investments) in 1985 as Vice President and became President in 2003. He earned a B.A. in 1976 from Hampshire College and received his law degree in 1980 from Stanford University Law School. Mr. Crown is also a director of General Dynamics Corporation and Sara Lee Corporation. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the University of Chicago and a trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry and the Orchestral Association.
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Mr. Dimon became Chairman of the Board on December 31, 2006, and has been Chief Executive Officer and President of JP Morgan Chase since December 31, 2005. He had been President and Chief Operating Officer since JP Morgan Chase ’s merger with Bank One Corporation in July 2004. At Bank One he had been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since March 2000. Prior to Bank One, he had held various senior executive positions at Citigroup Inc., its subsidiary, Salomon Smith Barney, and its predecessor company, Travelers Group, Inc. Mr. Dimon is a graduate of Tufts University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a director of The College Fund/UNCF and serves on the Board of Directors of The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Catalyst and Harvard Business School and is on the Board of Trustees of New York University School of Medicine.
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Ms. Futter became President of the American Museum of Natural History in November 1993, prior to which she had been President of Barnard College since 1981. She graduated from Barnard College in 1971 and earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1974. Ms. Futter is also a director of Consolidated Edison, Inc. She is a member of the Board of Overseers and Managers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Mr. Gray has been Co-Chairman of GrayLoeffler, LLC since September 2009, having previously served as Chairman of Amani Group since August 2004. Mr. Gray was President and Chief Executive Officer of The College Fund/UNCF (educational assistance) from 1991 until he retired in 2004. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991. Mr. Gray earned a B.A. degree from Franklin & Marshall College and received a master's degree in divinity from Drew Theological Seminary and a master's degree in church history from Princeton Theological Seminary. He had been a director of The Chase Manhattan Corporation from 1992 until 2000. Mr. Gray is also a director of Dell Computer Corporation, Pfizer Inc. and Prudential Financial, Inc.
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Mr. Jackson has been Chairman of Clear Creek Properties, Inc. (real estate development) since 1989. Mr. Jackson is a graduate of the United States Military Academy. Mr. Jackson is also a director of Markey Cancer Foundation.
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Prior to becoming Chairman in January 2001 and Chief Executive Officer of Yum! Brands, Inc. (franchised restaurants) in January 2000, Mr. Novak was Vice Chairman and President of Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. (now known as Yum! Brands, Inc.) from June 1997 until January 2000; Group President and Chief Executive Officer, KFC and Pizza Hut, North America, subsidiaries of PepsiCo, from August 1996 until June 1997; and President, KFC North America, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, from 1994 until 1996. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Missouri. Mr. Novak is also a director of Yum! Brands Foundation and a director of the Friends of the United Nations World Food Program.
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Mr. Raymond was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Exxon Mobil from 1999 until he retired in December 2005. He had been Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Exxon Corporation from 1993 until its merger with Mobil Oil Corporation in 1999, having begun his career in 1963 with Exxon. Mr. Raymond graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor degree in chemical engineering in 1960 and received a Ph.D. in the same discipline from the University of Minnesota in 1963. He was a director of J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated from 1987 until 2000. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, a Trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a Trustee of the Mayo Clinic, and a member of the Innovations in Medicine Leadership Council of UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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Prior to becoming Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson & Johnson (health care products) in 2002, Mr. Weldon served as Vice Chairman from 2001 and Worldwide Chairman, Pharmaceuticals Group from 1998 until 2001. Mr. Weldon served in a number of other senior executive positions since joining Johnson & Johnson in 1971. He is a graduate of Quinnipiac University. Mr. Weldon is Chairman of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, a member of The Business Council and a member of the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Health Professions Workforce. Mr. Weldon also serves on the Liberty Science Center Chairman’s Advisory Council and as a member of the Board of Trustees for Quinnipiac University. He previously served as Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
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