New York-listed JPMorgan Chase & Co has appointed Dana Deasy as its new chief information officer, with effect from December. 

Deasy will be joining JPMorgan Chase from BP, the $400 billion global energy company, where he was chief information officer and group vice president, responsible for global information technology, procurement and global real estate. Earlier in his career, Deasy served as CIO for General Motors North America, Tyco International and Siemens Corporation Americas.

In his new role, Deasy will be responsible for the firm's technology systems and infrastructure across all of its business globally.

Mike Ashworth, who served as interim CIO over the past several months, has been named deputy CIO for the company and chief information officer for the firm's leading consumer & community banking business. Ashworh has held a number of senior leadership positions at the firm over his 27-year career there, including as head of global technology infrastructure and as CIO for the investment bank.

In other recent hires at the firm last month the board of directors at JP Morgan Chase & Co elected Linda Bammann and Michael Neal as directors.

JPMorgan Chase currently manages assets of $2.4 trillion and operations worldwide.