Blanca SmithBlanca SmithClient Associate
About Blanca
Blanca Smith is a Client Associate at J.P. Morgan Wealth Management.
Blanca plays an integral, forward-facing role on The ARA Group. She conveys bespoke service to create a positive experience for the team's select client base, comprising sophisticated families, senior executives and entrepreneurs across Silicon Valley.
Among the vital functions Blanca oversees are opening new accounts, onboarding clients, executing trades, managing accounts, facilitating funds transfers and generating reports. She excels at streamlining operations for the team and its clients and is known for being personable and operationally driven.
Blanca's career path spans 15 years, during which she has focused on transforming problems into positive experiences with an eye on process improvement. She began at AT&T as a Mobility Assistant Manager and held roles such as an office assistant at retail establishments before launching an e-commerce business. Blanca's grounding in customer service prompted her pivot to financial services. She couples management and supervisory skills with an entrepreneurial spirit to identify methods for addressing client challenges.
Blanca earned a B.A. from California State University at Chico. She lives in the San Francisco Peninsula and devotes her free time to exploring the area's natural beauty, learning to sew and playing video games.
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