JRC BIO
Jeffrey R. Costello is the Chief Executive Officer of JP Morgan Bank International, the Russian
bank subsidiary of JP Morgan Chase. He joined JP Morgan in 2008. From 1999 to 2005 Mr.
Costello was Chief Executive Officer of Brunswick UBS, a Moscow-based investment bank
joint-venture between UBS and the Brunswick partners. He joined Brunswick UBS in 1998 as
General Counsel. Prior to that, Mr. Costello was an attorney with Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton, practicing in the Moscow and Washington DC offices. In a former life, Mr. Costello
was a theatre and television producer in New York and Los Angeles.
Since his arrival in Russia in 1996, Mr. Costello has served on a variety of advisory boards and
committees, including the OECD Steering Committee on Russian Corporate Governance, the
American Chamber of Commerce Capital Markets Committee and the Kremlin Chamber
Orchestra. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The US-Russia Business
Council.
Mr. Costello is an American citizen. From 2005-2008 he resided in London and New Zealand.
He currently lives in Moscow with his wife and son.