Center for a New American Security

Executive Director in Communications for Military and Veterans Affairs, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Shannon O'Reilly is the Executive Director in Communications for Military and Veterans Affairs at JPMorgan Chase & Co., a role she began in February 2012. In this capacity, she is responsible for all internal and external communications, media relations and marketing for JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s military and veteran initiatives focused on jobs, homeownership and education. She is also the firm’s communications liaison for the 100,000 Jobs Mission, a growing coalition of companies committed to hiring 100,000 veterans by 2020.

Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase & Co., Ms. O’Reilly was the Director of External Relations at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she was responsible for driving the Center's external relations strategy. Before joining CNAS, Ms. O'Reilly was a strategist for the global strategic communications firm The Rendon Group, supporting high level government and corporate clients including the United States Central Command, the Boeing Company, the United States Strategic Command and others. Throughout her career, she has also worked on several political campaigns as a foreign policy advisor and communications expert.

Ms. O’Reilly is currently a member of Women in International Security and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy,  a candidate for an M.A. in Government with a concentration in national security studies at Johns Hopkins University and holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.