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Jill
Whitby
General Counsel
Jill is General Counsel at Graintree, where she advises executive management and business leaders on all legal and regulatory matters, including lending, regulatory compliance, privacy, and information security.
She brings more than 15 years of leadership experience in financial services, with a career focused on enabling responsible growth, strengthening governance frameworks, and supporting complex lending platforms.
Prior to joining Graintree, Jill held a position at Citizens Bank, where she advised on the build-out of its Private Bank. Before Citizens, she held several roles at First Republic Bank, most recently as Associate General Counsel, where she supported the bank’s $37 billion residential lending portfolio and later led the legal team that supported the over $7 billion Professional Lending Program platform.
Jill earned her Juris Doctor and Master of Laws in Taxation from Golden Gate University School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.