Alison Marie YoungAlison Marie Young

Executive Director

Wealth Advisor

Alison Marie Young is an Executive Director and Wealth Advisor with J.P. Morgan Wealth Management.

As a tenured and experienced advisor, Alison provides sophisticated advice and planning for high-net-worth families, foundation and endowments, and business leaders.

Alison's strength lies in her ability to listen carefully and gain an understanding of each client's intentions for their wealth. She helps to navigate the professional resources of the firm and provide strategies that address these unique goals. Alison builds deep and long-standing relationships and delivers the highest level of service. She is known for her empathetic nature and effective solution-orientation.

Alison has strategically built her career as a financial advisor over the years with experience at both the JPMorgan Private Bank and with Alliance Bernstein Private Wealth Management, before joining J.P.Morgan again in 2020. Her well-diversified capability set includes tax and estate planning, asset allocation, business succession planning, and family governance strategies. Prior to business school she spent several years in the nonprofit industry, fueling her passion to work with the nonprofit sector in her current role.

Alison is a graduate of Huntington University, where she earned a B.A. in both History and Communication. She holds an MBA from the Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business.

Married to a Houston area native, Alison plays an active and influential role in the Houston nonprofit community. Current board work includes the Governing Board for Casa de Esperanza and Friends of the Children, as well the Advisory Board of Eight Million Stories and the Finance Committee of St. Catherine's Montessori. Past Board work includes the Tellepsen YMCA Advisory Board and the Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business Alumni Board, among others.

She has been honored numerous times for her excellence in Financial Services and in her service to the Houston community, including being named a 2024 Texas Executive Women, 'Woman on the Move,' a 2022 recipient of the J.P.Morgan Chairman's Award, a 2021 Houston Business Journal – Women Who Mean Business Award / Outstanding Business Leaders in Finance and the 2021 Rice Business Alumni Award for Industry Excellence in Financial Services. She is also a proud fellow of the American Leadership Forum (ALF) Class 64.

Alison and her husband Jelani live in the Houston area with their two children, Cash and Max. When not supporting clients, she can be found cheering on the Rockets, and watching her children shine in their many activities.