Donald H. Layton is Chief Executive Officer of Freddie Mac, a Government Sponsored Enterprise that provides liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing market and has guaranteed over $2.2 trillion in mortgages since 2009.

Layton has nearly 40 years of experience in financial services and as a corporate leader. He worked for nearly 30 years at JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors, starting as a trainee and rising to vice chairman and member of the three-person Office of the Chairman. In his career at JPMorgan Chase, Layton’s responsibilities spanned capital markets and investment banking, consumer banking, and operating services. More recently, from 2007 to 2009 he served as chairman and then CEO of E*TRADE Financial, which he successfully shepherded through the financial crisis.

Layton has been a member of the boards of several financial services firms and a senior adviser to a financial industry association.

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