Once Fired by JPMorgan Over a Trading Blowup, He’s Now the CFO
- Barnum shifted from big-money wagers to nuts-and-bolts roles
- He’s ‘different than all the other Groton and Harvard people’
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The CV isn’t quite what you’d expect for someone who’s about to handle the finances of the mighty JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Long before Jeremy Barnum was promoted to chief financial officer, he was fired over a trading mishap -- by JPMorgan. He later parted ways with hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management over another market blunder.