Amanda Eversole will join API this fall as its Chief Operating Officer, a new position focused on building and implementing a strategic plan for the natural gas and oil industry. Eversole comes to API from JPMorgan Chase & Co., where she serves as Managing Director and Head of Public Affairs overseeing strategic communications, civic engagement and strategy for the corporate responsibility team.
Eversole created and built JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s public affairs function, leveraging a campaign style approach focused on aligning inclusive economic growth and deeper local engagement around the world. Eversole also created a framework for the firm’s philanthropic approach, which was highlighted last year as part of Fortune’s “#1 Company Changing the World” recognition.
Prior to her time at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Eversole spent 13 years at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. She served as President of C_TEC, the Chamber Technology Engagement Center. She also served as Chief of Staff to Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue. Prior to joining the U.S. Chamber, she worked for RTC Relationship Marketing, a WPP Group company in business development.
Eversole graduated cum laude from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a minor in French. She earned an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.