Teresa Heitsenrether

Teresa Heitsenrether is JPMorgan Chase’s chief data and analytics officer and a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. Heitsenrether leads a data and analytics organization responsible for the adoption of artificial intelligence across the company. She oversees data use, governance, and controls with the aim of harnessing AI technologies to effectively and responsibly develop new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management.

Heitsenrether has been with JPMorgan Chase throughout her entire career. Prior to her current role, Heitsenrether was the global head of securities services from 2015 to 2023. The business provides custody, accounting, administration, middle office, collateral management, and data solutions to institutional investment managers, pension funds, and governments. Under her leadership, the business increased revenue by more than 22%, grew assets under custody by nearly $9 trillion, and more than doubled assets under administration. The business won some of the industry’s largest client mandates in history. It also launched Fusion, a data platform designed to help institutional investors better manage and leverage data in a scalable, efficient way.

From 2012 to 2015, Heitsenrether was the global head of Prime Brokerage, where she led the significant international expansion and growth of the business. She served as European head of Prime Brokerage from 2011 to 2012 and as head of Prime Brokerage product development from 2009 to 2011. Before 2009, Heitsenrether assumed increasing responsibilities across various roles within the treasury and fixed income businesses in New York and London.

Among other accolades, Heitsenrether was named one of American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Finance and on Barron’s list of the 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance. She also has been recognized as one of the 30 To Shape the Future by Global Custodian and one of the 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds by The Financial Journal. In 2009, the YWCA of New York City elected her to the Academy of Women Leaders.

Heitsenrether earned a B.S. in finance from Fordham University and an M.B.A. from New York University. She is on the advisory board of Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business.

She also serves on the executive steering committee of JPMorgan Chase’s Women on the Move and is a co-executive sponsor of the firm’s NextGen Business Resource Group.