JPMorgan Billionaire Whisperer Gets Flak Over Epstein Emails (2)

Mary Callahan Erdoes has watched one star executive after another climb to the highest rungs at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and then leave, either seizing other opportunities, retiring or getting shoved out.

But the bank’s asset- and wealth-management boss has remained a part of Jamie Dimon’s inner orbit — and JPMorgan’s powerful operating committee — longer than anyone else aside from the CEO himself. In April, the board praised her as it made her the firm’s highest-paid top executive after Dimon and the bank’s president Daniel Pinto.

Mary Erdoes

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Now the bank’s ultimate survivor is facing a challenge like ...