Kevin Kalus

Kevin Kalus is an Executive Director and Market Team Lead with J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Kevin oversees a group of Bankers and Specialists to guide affluent clients in making the financial decisions that can help effectuate their wealth. He draws on his deep ties in the area to play an influential part in driving J.P. Morgan’s impact and growth in the community.

Kevin has spent his career advising highly successful business owners and entrepreneurs across their financial journey, facilitating monetization strategies that help transform their hard work into a personal financial legacy. In his leadership position, he brings this background to leverage connectivity across the Bank, role modeling ways in which to proactively navigate the global resources of J.P. Morgan.

Kevin is adept at developing the talent of team members and has found that an essential factor in forging excellence is to augment each individual’s skills in a way that sets them up for success. Through his experiences, Kevin brings together CEOs, key stakeholders and like-minded clients to find commonalities and explore shared ideas.

Over more than two decades in the financial industry, Kevin has gained considerable insight into commercial lending, corporate banking and the sophisticated needs of high-net-worth clients. He has been running sales teams for eight years, most recently serving middle-market clients in J.P. Morgan’s Commercial Bank.

A graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Kevin holds an M.B.A. in Finance, Management and International Business Strategy. Earlier, he earned a B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University.

Philanthropy is one of Kevin’s core values, and he is a board member of Choose DuPage Economic Development Alliance. He also sits on the board of the Delta Institute, an organization that works with communities throughout the Midwest to solve complex environmental and economic challenges.

Kevin and his wife, a high school teacher in the area, have three school-aged children and a COVID dog. Very family-oriented, most evenings you can find him coaching youth sports.