William B. Harrison, Jr. is the former CEO and current Chairman of JPMorgan Chase. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. Having risen through the ranks of Chemical Bank before succeeding Walter V. Shipley and Patricia Q. Raglin as the leader of the Chase Manhattan Corporation, he was the principal architect of the Chase and J. P. Morgan merger of 2000. He has been a director of the Firm or a predecessor institution since 1991. Mr. Harrison is also a director of Merck & Co., Inc.
Jamie Dimon, former Bank One CEO, replaced Harrison as CEO on January 1st, 2006.
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