Roy J. Salamé

Roy J. Salamé was most recently Managing Director and Head of the Global Investment Opportunities Group (GIO) at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, where he managed over 100 investment advisors and credit professionals covering over 1,000 clients from 6 offices globally. Prior to this role, Mr. Salamé held leadership positions at Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs (14 years) and Citigroup (10+ years), with tenures in London and Bahrain. His career spans expertise in large commodity-based non-conventional banking and finance franchising, including Natural Resources and Metals Sales and Structuring efforts and various strategic energy risk management initiatives in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America. Mr. Salamé is Co-Chair of the Advisory Board for the JPMorgan Center for Commodities at University of Colorado, Denver. He also serves on the Board of B*CURED, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to funding cutting edge research to cure brain cancer. Mr. Salamé holds a Baccalaureate in Math and Science from the Lycee Chateaubriand in Rome, Italy; a BA in Economics With Distinction, and an MBA in Finance and Investment, both from The George Washington University.