DE222 Honoree: Don Mell – Delaware Business Times

Title: Executive Director & Delaware Site Lead

Workplace: JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Boards: Riverfront Development Corporation, Delaware Bankers Association

Q&A: What was your first job? “As a kid I delivered newspaper (The Evening Journal). I was a freelance correspondent for CNN and others in the Middle East. My first full-time job was working for the Associated Press as a photographer and photo editor based in Beirut.”

As the site lead for the Delaware Market for JPMorgan Chase & Co., Don Mell leads strategic planning and initiatives supporting growth and opportunity for the bank’s more than 11,000 local employees. Mell has been busy over the past year, managing Chase’s largest real estate and renovation project currently active in its portfolio as the bank invests hundreds of millions of dollars into First State sites. The bank is also still looking to fill hundreds of open positions in Delaware’s credit operations, technology centers and more that will require Mell’s guidance and consultation with state government leaders.