Pinto Endured Lonely Weeks Co-Running JPMorgan as World Lurched
- Pinto, Gordon Smith filled in after Dimon’s surgery in March
- In a twist, Pinto was stranded far from home during the crisis
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Daniel Pinto checked into a hotel in midtown Manhattan around 2 a.m. on a Friday in early March, hoping to get a little rest after an epically hard day. Things were about to get much worse.
His slog that day had begun in London with a routine call with his boss, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon. But just a few hours later Dimon was rushed into emergency heart surgery, and the board named Pinto -- who oversees the firm’s Wall Street operations -- to temporarily run the bank alongside Gordon Smith, the head of its consumer business.