06.30.23

The Diversity Mission of Merrill Lynch's Christopher Jay Rolls On

by: Tracey Longo

Merrill Lynch advisor Christopher Jay, the youngest chair of Merrill's Financial Advisor Advisory Council to Management who has built his Seattle-based firm to $3.5 billion in assets under management, has made it his mission to boost DEI within his firm and the advisory industry has a whole. Black and gay, Jay realizes that he symbolizes many of the changes the industry is experiencing. “I think representation matters and we know this, whether it’s gender, sexuality, ethnicity, seeing someone in a role where they’re the first to look like you, sound like you or spell their name like you, matters.”

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