Valisha Graves

Valisha Graves is an Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase. She is the Senior Product Lead for the API Marketplace aka Chase Developer Portal in Consumer and Community Banking.

She has over 25 years of experience in financial services and has spent over a decade translating complex financial and data intensive problems into user-centric fintech applications.

Prior to joining JP Morgan Chase, she spent 16 years at Morgan Stanley starting as a Product Manager on the ModelWare innovation team responsible for a portfolio of Fintech applications. She also served as the Business Technology Officer for Investment Banking and Global Capital Markets. In Wealth Management she managed the execution of the Wealth Management One Client data strategy and led the Account Onboarding Fraud Controls and Product Strategy team. Valisha helped launch EDIT (Enhancing Diversity in Technology) at Morgan Stanley, the first Wall Street forum aimed at advancing the careers of Black and Latino technologists.

Valisha is a 92Y Fellow. She sits on the NYU Fubon Center Fintech Advisory Board, chairs the CFANY Fintech Thought Leadership Group and guest lectures on Fintech at leading business schools.

She earned an MBA from Columbia University and an AB in Government from Cornell University.