JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2008 Fall Speaker Series at Syracuse University continues Nov. 13 with Sharon Dhall

JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2008 Fall Speaker Series at Syracuse University continues Nov. 13 with Sharon DhallNovember 12, 2008Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu

The JPMorgan Chase 2008 Fall Speaker Series will continue on Thursday, Nov. 13, with Sharon Dhall, chief technology officer for the student and auto lending business within JPMorgan Chase. Dhall will present “Management by Metrics: You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure” at 5 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management building. A reception will follow the seminar at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Dhall has 15 years of experience in information technology, primarily in the financial services industry. She received a bachelor’s degree in information studies from Syracuse University in 1993. After graduation, she joined Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) as a marketing program analyst. A year later, she joined Arthur Andersen IT Consulting, where she worked in the telecom and financial services industry sectors for more than two years.

Dhall spent more than 12 years with General Electric in the GE capital and consumer finance divisions. At GE, she worked in treasury, Six Sigma, card services and the underbanked arena. Her roles ranged from project management, conversion business leader, production support and Six Sigma quality leader to chief information officer.

Dhall completed her executive M.B.A. at the University of Connecticut in 2004.

About the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Speaker Series

In support of its partnership with Syracuse University, JPMorgan Chase & Co. created a speaker series to share the expertise of its employees with the SU campus. These practitioners bring a wealth of relevant industry perspective that keeps faculty and students in tune with industry developments and current on workplace issues.

About the partnership

In June 2007, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and SU established a unique corporate-university collaboration and joint venture. The purpose of the collaboration is to develop education and work experience innovations in the area of financial services information technology, leveraging each other’s knowledge and expertise in the building of a best-in-class curriculum for entry-level technologists and to collaborate on projects of joint interest that provide value to both organizations and society. For more information about JPMorgan Chase and Co. or the Syracuse-JPMorgan Chase & Co. Partnership, visit http://globaltech.syr.edu.

About JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $1.8 trillion, operations in more than 60 countries and more than 180,000 employees. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. Under the JPMorgan and Chase brands, the firm serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients.