Paul LaRusso

Before being named CEO of Akoya in February 2023, Paul was a managing director at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for Chase’s open banking and data aggregation. In this role, he led the industry in building out the infrastructure to deliver greater control and protection for consumers sharing their financial data. He was responsible for Chase’s data access channel and APIs which support hundreds of millions of API calls a month for millions of consumer and small business customers sharing data with thousands of third-party apps. Through his leadership, Chase fully eliminated screen scraping in October 2022. Paul was also responsible for negotiating agreements with several leading aggregators and fintechs, standing up Chase’s own aggregation services enabling customers to access their held away finances and driving partnerships with open banking industry groups and regulators.

During his 14+ year career at Chase, Paul held additional leadership positions including the head of product for digital servicing, responsible for Chase’s online communications and servicing products used by 40 million active customers and product owner for mobile where he led the strategy and rollout of Chase’s first mobile banking apps. Paul was also the Board Co-Chair of Financial Data Exchange and served on the board of directors of Akoya. Prior to joining Chase, Paul worked in the mobile industry for Verizon and Sprint.

Paul earned an MBA from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University.