Blythe Masters Article: JP Morgan set to take on commodity giants with Sempra buyout

This January 2010 Business Daily Africa article detailing the purchase of RBS Sempra Commodities for an estimated $4 billion by JPMorgan Chase Commodities Business headed by Blythe Masters:

"For decades, two names have dominated the $4 trillion world of commodity and energy derivatives trading: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. If Wall Street power woman Blythe Masters has her way, a third will soon be making it a troika: JP Morgan."


"The former credit derivatives wunderkind who has built JP Morgan’s commodities business into a true global powerhouse in just three years is on the cusp of buying RBS Sempra Commodities for an estimated $4 billion, bringing an unusual but highly successful hybrid trading operation —one that carefully mixes customer-flow business with prop-trading risk — under the well-capitalised JP Morgan umbrella."

The article continues on to describe the full ramifications of the purchase, potential hurdles, and the like.

"It would be a career-crowning coup for British-born Masters, at 40 one of the most successful women on Wall Street"

"Masters, a Cambridge-educated derivatives expert and avid amateur horse rider, was drafted into commodities from the Chief Financial Officer role in early 2007 after JP Morgan’s first major foray into energy markets went awry."


Read the full article on Sempra Commodities acquisition here.

Harvard Business School's Women's Association of Greater New York

Blythe Masters has participated in events hosted by the Harvard Business School's Women's Association of Greater New York, most notably a seminar entitled 'What Does it Take to Make it?: A Discussion with JPMorgan's Women Leaders'.  This event, hosted at JP Morgan, featured the following speakers:

• Blythe Masters, Managing Director, Head of Global Commodities
• Melissa Moore, HBS '92, CEO of Treasury Services
• Jennifer Nason, Managing Director, Global Head of Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking

The event was hosted and moderated by Julia Kirby, Senior Editor of Harvard Business Review.

Read the full biographies of all the participants in the Discussion with JP Morgan's Women Leaders.

About HBS Women's Association of Greater New York
The HBS Women's Association of Greater New York is a charitable organization established by and for alumnae of the Harvard Business School who live and/or work in the Greater New York area.  Our mission is to provide education to alumnae and the broader community about women in leadership and to raise scholarship funds for a current HBS woman student.  Our programs facilitate the exchange of information, experiences, tools, guidance and support to enable HBS alumnae at all stages of their lives and careers to fully realize their individual personal and professional goals.   

source: http://www.hbswany.org

Blythe Masters JPMorgan Chase Biography

Blythe Masters began working at JP Morgan in 1991, directly after graduating from Trinity College in Cambridge, and after completing several internships at the bank dating back to 1987.  She has thus spent her entire career at JPMorgan Chase, rising through the ranks and holding a number of prominent positions, including her current position as Head of Global Commodities.  

Read Blythe's entire JPMorgan Chase biography, located here.

Blythe Masters LinkedIn Public Profile

Visit Blythe Masters Public Profile on LinkedIn.  The profile contains a biography and description of past and current positions at J.P. Morgan Chase.  Note that the Blythe Masters LinkedIn page is primarily a public biography and resource for links and information.  It is not used for direct correspondence.

Connections are welcome.