Kevin Willsey Hired as Co-head of JPMorgans Equity Capital Markets for the Americas

Business Wire, July 16, 2001

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2001

JPMorgan announced today that Kevin Willsey will be rejoining JPMorgan as co-head of Equity Capital Markets for the Americas. He will report to Carlos Hernandez; Head of Global Equity Capital Markets.

Mr. Willsey spent 11 years at JPMorgan prior to joining Goldman Sachs in early 2000. "Kevins return validates the power of the new platform and is obviously a tremendous boost for JPMorgans Equities business," said Steve Black, Head of Institutional Equities. We all look forward to him rejoining our team and helping take our franchise to a leadership position. Mr. Willsey was a managing director at Goldman Sachs and a member of their Equity Capital Markets team. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he most recently held the position of co-head of U.S. Equity Capital Markets at JPMorgan.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $714 billion and operations in more than 50 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, asset management, private equity, custody and transaction services, retail and middle market financial services, and e-finance. Headquartered in New York, JPMorgan Chase serves more than 30 million consumer customers and the worlds most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients.