Posted September 29, 2009.
Elaine Agather, chairman of Chase’s Dallas Region, and south region head and managing director of the Private Bank at J.P. Morgan, will speak in a free, public lecture Thursday, Oct. 1, at the University of Oklahoma.
A question-and-answer session and reception will follow the lecture, which is set for 11 a.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave. The event is sponsored by OU’s Price College of Business.
Agather joined Chemical Bank of New York in 1979, working in London, San Francisco and New York until she relocated to Dallas in 1984. After the 1986 merger of Chemical and Texas Commerce Bank, Agather was promoted to chairman of Texas Commerce Bank in Fort Worth in 1992 and joined the Private Bank to manage client advisory groups across the state in 1997. In 1999, she was elected chairman and CEO of Chase’s Dallas Region.
She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in history and economics, and earned her Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas.
The Price College of Business Distinguished Speaker Series presents top-level business executives from a broad range of backgrounds, industries and geographies. Designed to promote face-to-face interaction between global leaders, the Oklahoma business community and Price College students, the Distinguished Speaker Series focuses on guests from the chairman and CEO levels of leadership.
Ranked in the top 5 percent of all U.S. undergraduate business schools based on recent ranking data, the Price College of Business is one of the nation’s premier business colleges. This year, U.S. News & World Report ranks the college’s International Business Program 12th in the nation and the Management Information Systems Program 17th in the nation. The Entrepreneurship Program was ranked 11th in the nation by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review.