Director
Advisory Services
Building boardrooms across the globe
through governance, composition and talent.
June 2025
What is J.P. Morgan Director
Advisory Services (DAS)?
| Established in 2016 by Jamie Dimon as a “matchmaking service” for directors and boards, DAS has evolved into both a trusted advisor and sought-after center of excellence, offering director convening, governance content and advisory services.
To date, DAS has worked with
over 1,600 corporate clients
with director referrals
We created Director Advisory Services not just for the purpose of enhancing relationships with our clients; but helping shape the future of corporate governance itself.
Director Advisory Services
About Our Network
~8,000 individuals
In our candidate network
~5,000 individuals
Actively looking for a board
81% of placements
Are female or diverse male
CEOs/CFOs
Active or Retired
Aspiring Directors
looking for their first board
Diverse
(Female, POC or LGBTQ+)
Taking place in North America and Europe, these annual events convene
| ~200 corporate directors
for networking, case studies and content from notable governance experts, business leaders and economists, to explore some of the most challenging issues facing businesses today.
Bringing together
| ~20-40 corporate directors
to network and share best practices, these dinners are hosted by either a member of our Operating Committee or a Director of JPMorgan Chase in varying regional markets, as well as select international cities.
Dinners have been held in:
Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Charleston, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., Naples, Miami and Paris, Toronto and London.
In 2020,
| DAS launched a monthly distribution
of some of JPMC’s best and most timely proprietary content.
If you would like to be added to the distribution list, please contact our team
DAS Demographics
Candidates actively looking in our network
01 | Industries
¹ Other includes Consulting, Law, Government, Education
02 | Roles
03 | Public Boards
Searches
01 | Company Tiers
02 | Industry Coverage
Current Trends
in the Boardroom
Candidate Criteria "In Demand"
State of Governance
Meet Our Leaders
| Jessica Mcintosh
Executive Director | Director Advisory Services
A tenured and trusted advisor, Jessica McIntosh has spent over 20 years at J.P. Morgan building relationships with high profile stakeholders. She began her career in recruiting and staffing roles before joining J.P. Morgan where she has held a series of strategic business development, client service and chief of staff roles including in the Office of the Vice Chairman.
Jessica currently serves as Executive Director of Director Advisory Services, a corporate networking function formed in 2016 to support JPMC clients related to board matters. She has played an instrumental role designing the talent, technology and marketing strategi es of the function, helping grow from concept to a fully formed platform which has advised and supported over 1,600 companies while developing a rob ust and diverse candidate network of ~7,000 people.
Jessica serves on the board of the Jimmy Lee Scholars Fund Archdiocese of New York, an endowment established in honor of the late Jimmy Lee, former Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Through the Inner City Scholarship Fund, the organization works to help cover tuition for eligible low income students to attend Catholic high schools within the Archdiocese of New York.
Jessica graduated with a B.A. from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC. She and her husband Tim reside in Charleston and are proud parents to five children and a Goldendoodle , Teddy Roosevelt.
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| Disclaimer
J.P. Morgan’s Director Advisory Services Group acts, among other things, as a liaison between J.P. Morgan clients seeking potential candidates for nomination to their senior management teams and individuals who are seeking such roles. J.P. Morgan does not seek or receive compensation for this role and makes no representation as to the suitability of any potential management candidate for any particular company’s senior management team. J.P. Morgan is not acting as an executive search firm, has performed no background checks, and has not evaluated any potential legal or regulatory issues which could arise out of a candidate’s being selected for any particular company’s senior management team. Each company to whom J.P. Morgan provides candidate names is responsible for performing its own independent evaluation and due diligence, without reliance on J.P. Morgan, and J.P. Morgan assumes no liability or responsibility to any company with respect to its decisions on proposed nominations and/or additions to its senior management team.
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