Maria Elena Lagomasino is a businesswoman who has been an executive at such companies as

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and

JP Morgan Chase JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. As of 2022, JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, the w ...

. In 2007, she was named Hispanic Business Woman of the Year by ''Hispanic Business magazine''.

Biography

Lagomasino received her B.A from

Manhattanville College Manhattanville College is a private university in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 at 412 Houston Street in lower Manhattan, it was initially known as Academy of the Sacred Heart, then after 1847 as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart ...

and her M.B.A from Fordham University. Before 1983, Lagomasino was a vice president at Citibank, then joined

Chase Chase or CHASE may refer to: Businesses * Chase Bank, a national bank based in New York City, New York * Chase Aircraft (1943–1954), a defunct American aircraft manufacturing company * Chase Coaches, a defunct bus operator in England * Chase Co ...

in 1983 as vice president, in charge of

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. In 1989, she was named head of the private bank for the Western Hemisphere, then became managing director in charge of its Global Private Banking Group in 1997. She was chairman and chief executive officer of JP Morgan Private Bank, a unit of

from 2001 to 2003, when she became a director of

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. She left Morgan to become CEO of Asset Management Advisors (AMA), an affiliate of

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, in November 2005. She sits on the board of directors of

(where she was voted director in 2008), Avon Products, and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.Maria Elena Lagomasino biography
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since 2015.

References

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