WT 360: JPMorgan Chase’s gameplan to help boost economic, national security
(Pictured left to right) Justine Johnson, chief mobility officer at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation -- and Sara O'Rourke, managing director of SRI Solutions at JPMorgan Chase. JPMorgan Chase photo.
By
Ross Wilkers
Sara O’Rourke, managing director for SRI solutions at JPMorgan Chase, takes us through all the moving parts of the global banking giant’s Security and Resiliency Initiative for supporting critical industries.
JPMorgan Chase stood up its $1.5 trillion Security and Resiliency Initiative in the fall of 2025 with flexibility built into the system because one approach may work for a certain situation, but not for another.
Sara O’Rourke, managing director for SRI solutions at JPMorgan Chase, joins for this episode to go over how the team pursues investment and financing opportunities in industries directly connected to national and economic security and resiliency.
As O’Rourke tells our Ross Wilkers, identifying what the vulnerabilities are is step one before the team can design solutions for addressing choke points in supply chains.
O’Rourke also describes the first-hand experience she gained in facilitating public-private partnerships as Employee No. 5 in the Commerce Department’s CHIPS Investment Office. Semiconductors and energy needs feature in the episode discussion too.
