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The question of who will next sit in the big chair at the nation’s largest bank is again heating up.
A few months after stating that the timeline for his eventual departure had dwindled,
“We all want to get that exactly right,”
The guessing game about Dimon’s next move has been underway for at least a decade. In 2014,
But earlier this year, Dimon said that his timetable for stepping down as CEO was no longer five years, which had long been his answer to the question, and was now perhaps as short as two-and-a-half years.
One month earlier, Dimon was asked about the possibility of taking a job in government, and he didn’t close the door on the possibility.
‘I think you’d be better off if you had practitioners at the table a lot of times,” Dimon said. “That’s true for regulators. It’s true for Cabinet members. It’s true for people inside the government. “
Dimon’s eventual successor as CEO will likely be drawn from the company’s 15-member Operating Committee, which meets every Monday morning at 10 a.m.
What follows is a look at five of the most prominent current contenders for the CEO job. All five of them sit on the bank’s Operating Committee, and all have been with the bank for at least 19 years.