JPMorgan Chase has hired a former Wells Fargo executive to oversee the firm’s diversity unit.
David Miree will become the megabank’s new global head of diversity, equity and inclusion, the $3.7 trillion-asset company said in an internal memo. He will join the firm in May.
Miree, who was most recently the head of consumer and small-business diverse customer segments at Wells Fargo, succeeds Brian Lamb, who was hired as JPMorgan's diversity, equity and inclusion chief in April 2020.
Miree will report to JPMorgan President and Chief Operating Officer Daniel Pinto, though he will also be accountable to Robin Leopold, the company's head of human resources, according to the memo.
Miree, who will be based in New York City, will join the management teams of the firm's consumer and community bank, corporate and investment bank and human resources unit, JPMorgan said. In his new job, he will “build on the work Brian has led for the past two years,” the memo stated.
Lamb, meanwhile, is moving into a different role within JPMorgan’s commercial banking business. He will become the firm’s Northeast segment head for middle-market banking and specialized industries, which focuses on midsize companies, municipalities and nonprofits.
Lamb will report to John Simmons, head of middle- market banking and specialized industries, and join the JPMorgan executive committee in charge of middle-market banking and specialized industries.
Lamb succeeds Thelma Ferguson, who is leaving the job after 12 years to take on a new role at JPMorgan as vice chairman of commercial banking. Ferguson, who joined JPMorgan in 1998, is the company’s former president of the Kentucky, southern Indiana and Tennessee markets.
In her new role, Ferguson will be tasked with expanding and deepening the firm’s commercial banking client relationships on a national basis and will work on talent development.
She will continue to report to Simmons and will remain based in New York City, the memo said.
