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Jes Staley

ジェス・スターレイ　/　じぇす・すたーれい

American banker

December 27, 1956 (age 69)　・　Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Massachusetts
banker
chief executive officer

My Take

Jes Staley's career reads to me like a parable about modern finance. Thirty-four years climbing J.P. Morgan's investment bank, then the top job at Barclays — by résumé alone, one of the most accomplished bankers of his generation. Yet what stays with me is how the story complicates: at that altitude, your judgment about whom you associate with and when to walk away matters as much as any balance sheet. I find him genuinely interesting precisely because he is not a clean morality tale; he is a reminder that competence and consequence are separate ledgers, and the second one always gets audited eventually.

Overview

James Edward "Jes" Staley (born December 27, 1956) is an American banker and the former group chief executive of Barclays. He spent 34 years at J.P. Morgan's investment bank. After moving to BlueMountain Capital in 2013, Staley became CEO of Barclays in December 2015.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Jes Staley
Name (Japanese): ジェス・スターレイ
Reading: じぇす・すたーれい
Born: December 27, 1956 (age 69)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Monkey
Origin: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: banker / chief executive officer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Bowdoin College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Xhttps://x.com/JAMESST35919959
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%20Staley

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