JPMorgan Hires Former Citi Sponsors Dealmaker Diamandakis

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has hired Anthony Diamandakis, a former senior Citigroup Inc. investment banker, to focus on financial sponsors including private equity funds and asset managers.

Based in New York, Diamandakis will join in July as a vice chair in the Strategic Investors Group, reporting to Avery Whidden, according to a statement reviewed by Bloomberg News. Whidden is the global head of infrastructure and SIG.

Diamandakis, whose role will be to support and build new relationships with sponsors and asset managers, joins the bank after 11 years at Citigroup. Prior to that he had spent more than ...