Jill Otto

Jill Otto is a Partner of the Corporate Executives and Financial Principals Group at Merrill Lynch. Previously, she built and led the Financial Institutions and Sponsors Group for J.P. Morgan in Florida. Prior to moving to Miami, Jill ran, in New York, 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, she managed the investment offices in Rio de Janeiro and Paris of her family's 75 year old business. Jill sits on the board of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. 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. Other board memberships have included serving for International Planned Parenthood, the alumni councils of Phillips Academy Andover and Princeton University. 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 lives in Miami Beach, FL with her toddlers.