Dive Brief:

• Jennifer Nason, a global chair of investment banking at JPMorgan Chase, is leaving the bank early next year and will take a seat on Accenture’s board, according to a company memo issued Monday.
• Nason, 64, has been at the nation’s largest bank since 1986. She’s part of JPMorgan’s executive committee of global chairs of investment banking, according to her LinkedIn profile.
• Nason was nominated to join the Dublin, Ireland-based consulting firm’s board of directors and will exit her post at JPMorgan on Feb. 7, 2025, Accenture said Monday.

Dive Insight:

Nason began working for the lender in Melbourne, Australia, starting as a corporate finance trainee on JPMorgan’s metals and mining mergers and acquisitions team, according to a memo sent to staff by Jennifer Piepszak and Troy Rohrbaugh, co-CEOs of JPMorgan’s commercial and investment bank. 

After moving to New York City, Nason led the retail investment banking team. In 1998, she joined the technology investment banking coverage team as a managing director; she led that group for a dozen years “through a period of immense technological change,” before reaching the global chair role, the memo said.  

For the past two decades, Nason has led JPMorgan’s technology, media and telecommunications global client practice, Accenture said in its release. She also set up the bank’s first IT business development group – a partnership between technology banking and JPMorgan’s IT organization – “which has helped shape its technology roadmap and facilitated multiple direct investments in technology companies,” Accenture’s release said. 

In her current role, Nason is responsible for many of JPMorgan’s key investment banking relationships around the world, serving as the senior executive relationship partner, Accenture said.

Piepszak and Rohrbaugh called Nason “an impactful leader” within the global investment banking unit who has helped shape the bank’s approach in various industries and geographies. She’s also a founding member of JPMorgan’s investment banking women’s network.

“An experienced and fearless banker, Jennifer has lent her perspective and expertise to companies and executives at the forefront of technological innovation and development,” Piepszak and Rohrbaugh wrote in the memo, adding that Nason is “renowned for her ability to get things done – and do things differently.” 

Nason has also served as a board member for London-based mining company Rio Tinto since 2020, according to her LinkedIn profile.