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Reginald Chambers
Executive Vice President & Chief Transformation Officer, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America

Mr. Chambers is an Executive Vice President and the Chief Transformation Officer at the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (“TIAA”), a financial services organization and private provider of financial retirement services in the academic, research, medical, cultural, and governmental fields since September 2023.

From May 2017 to September 2023, he held various senior executive roles at JPMorgan Chase & Co., a financial holding company that offers consumer and commercial banking, investment banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management solutions, including having been Head of Investor Relations for the firm and serving most recently as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy for Commercial Banking.

Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Chambers served in the Strategy and Corporate Finance practice at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, from 2013 to 2017. In 2011, Mr. Chambers was appointed by President Obama as a White House Fellow at the White House National Economic Council, a position he held until 2012. Before serving in the White House, Mr. Chambers was an investor with 3i Group plc, a multinational private equity and venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, from 2008 to 2011, serving as Head of North American Infrastructure; and Vice President in the Global Energy Group of the Investment Banking Division of Citigroup Inc., a diversified financial services holding company that provides a broad range of financial services to consumer and corporate customers, from 2006 to 2008. From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Chambers was a corporate lawyer first in Madrid, Spain, with Uria Menendez Abogados, S.L.P., an international Spanish law firm from 2001 to 2002, and then with Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP, an international law firm headquartered in New York City, from 2002 to 2006.

Mr. Chambers received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and an AB in Political Science, Spanish, and Markets & Management from Duke University.