Jill Otto

Jill Otto is a Partner of the Corporate Executives and Financial Principals Group at Merrill Lynch and board member at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. Her previous work includes building and leading the Financial Institutions and Sponsors Group for J.P. Morgan in Florida. Jill also operated a business development for J.P. Morgan’s Global Investment Opportunities Group (GIO), a multi-asset class investment desk for corporate executives, directors, single family offices, and funds.

Prior to J.P. Morgan, Jill managed the Rio de Janeiro and Paris investment offices for her family's seventy-five year old business. She sat on the board of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami and was a member of the Group of Fifty (G50), a select group of private-business leaders from Latin America. In 2010, Jill was honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum where she helped build the Family and Private Company Community. She has also worked with International Planned Parenthood and the alumni councils of Phillips Academy Andover and Princeton University, and she is an alumna interviewer for applicants to Princeton University from Florida.

Jill received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, a Master of Arts from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University. She was raised in Germany and Brazil and now lives in Miami Beach, Florida with her children.