Anu Aiyengar

As JPMorgan Chase & Co. searches for its first major acquisition in more than a decade, Anu Aiyengar will have a hand in shaping the giant bank's future. She's the co-head of its global mergers and acquisitions business, and the only person of color and only woman to hold that position on Wall Street. It's been a remarkable trajectory for an Indian...

"You have three strikes against you," Aiyengar, who was born in India, recalled the interviewer telling her. "How can I hire you? You are the wrong gender, wrong color and wrong country."

As JPMorgan Chase & Co. searches for its first major acquisition in more than a decade, Anu Aiyengar will have a hand in shaping the giant bank's future. She's the co-head of its global mergers and acquisitions business, and the only person of color and only woman to hold that position on Wall Street. It's been a remarkable trajectory for an Indian...

"You have three strikes against you," Aiyengar, who was born in India, recalled the interviewer telling her. "How can I hire you? You are the wrong gender, wrong color and wrong country."