Dennis Weatherstone

Background

Weatherstone, Dennis was born on November 29, 1930 in London. Son of Henry Philip and Gladys (Hart) Weatherstone.

Education

Student, Northwestern Polytechnic, London, 1946-1949.

Career

In 1946, at age 16, he was hired as a bookkeeper and was quickly promoted to the foreign exchange trading desk at the Guarantee Trust Company, a predecessor firm in London. Weatherstone rose through the ranks, becoming the Chairman in 1980 and the Chief Executive Officer in 1990. He retired from J. P. Morgan in 1994 and was succeeded by Douglas Warner III "Sandy".

Sir Dennis became a Vice Chairman and director in 1979, Chairman of the Executive Committee a year later and President in 1987.

In 1990, he was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II—the first Justice of the Peace Morgan employee to receive the honour. Later that year, Sir Dennis helped the firm earn Federal Reserve authority to trade and sell corporate stocks, making J. P. Morgan the first bank-related securities firm with a full range of securities powers.

A decade later, the Glass–Steagall Acting was repealed, allowing banking companies to provide any service, whether it be a loan, advice or a securities offering. JPMorgan invented value-at-risk (VaR) as a tool for measuring exposure to trading losses.

The tool emerged in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash when Sir Dennis Weatherstone, JPMorgan"s British-born chairman, asked his division chiefs to put together a briefing to answer the question: "How much can we lose on our trading portfolio by tomorrow"s close?".

Achievements

• Dennis Weatherstone has been listed as a noteworthy Bank executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Sir Dennis served as an independent member of the Board of Banking Supervision of the Bank of England from 1995 through 2001. He was also a board member of Merck & Company, General Motors and the New York Stock Exchange, and a director of Air Liquide.

Interests

• Tennis.

Connections

Married Marion Blunsum, April 4, 1959. Children— Hazel, Cheryl, Gretel, Richard Paul.

Father:

Henry Philip Weatherstone

Mother:

Gladys (Hart) Weatherstone

Spouse:

Marion Blunsum

child:

Gretel Weatherstone

child:

Hazel Weatherstone

child:

Cheryl Weatherstone

child:

Richard Paul Weatherstone