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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: JPMorgan Chase Industry: Banking

Nobody else in world business gets quoted like scripture and studied like a fortune teller, often in the same week. Two decades into running JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon presides over the most profitable bank in American history, a fortress balance sheet he never stops reinforcing and an annual shareholder letter treated as required reading from Washington to Beijing. The apprenticeship was operatic, protégé to Sandy Weill, famously fired, then resurrected at Bank One before the 2004 merger handed him the biggest job in finance. He has since survived a financial crisis, a cancer diagnosis and a thousand succession rumours without surrendering an inch of relevance. This year found him sparring with crypto bosses at Davos while wiring AI through 300,000 employees’ desks. No CEO’ s opinion moves more money before lunch.

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