William B. Harrison Jr., (born August 12, 1943), in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is the former CEO and 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 during the Chemical Bank merger with the Chase Manhattan Corporation in 1995, which kept the Chase name.
As Chairman and CEO of Chase, he and Douglas A. Warner III, then CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co., were the principal architects of the US$30.9 billion acquisition by Chase of J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000, to form JPMorgan Chase & Co.[1] Harrison has been a director of the Firm or a predecessor institution since 1991.
Director from 1991 to 2007 of JPMorgan Chase or a predecessor institution: [3]