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     Jessica Holloway
Chief Operations Officer, the Jamrog Group: Age 38
 Growing up, Jessica Holloway wasn’t exactly sure what she wanted to do for a living.
While earning a degree in finance at the Isenberg
School of Management at UMass Amherst, she came to understand two things — she liked helping people, and she was good at math. And she desired a career that
would marry those two attributes.
So, following an eye- opening internship at Northwestern Mutual
that became a learning experience on many
levels, she put herself on a path to a career in financial services ... and her current role as chief
operations officer for the Holyoke-based Jamrog Group. (Amy Jamrog is the founder and CEO of
the company, and also Holloway’s mentor.)
While the business card says COO, Holloway says she’s primarily a financial planner, a role in which
she can use her math skills
(a little) and that ‘helping people’ trait to a much larger
degree.
“What I really love about it is helping clients
start to view money as a tool instead of a stressor,” she explained. “A lot of the work I do is helping clients get really tuned into what matters to them — who and what — and then aligning the money accordingly.”
As COO, she has a broad role, one that includes everything from building systems, processes, and workflows (work that has helped the company triple its revenue) to coaching and development of employees, to integrating health and wellness into the group’s culture, leading outside ‘walks and talks’ with staff, and even hosting Zoom Peloton rides with team members.
“As financial planners, we spend a lot of time at our computers, crunching numbers. So we started to integrate
a lot more movement, just to encourage both ourselves but also our team members to get up and move during the day,” said Holloway, who, in her spare time, is a board member for the nonprofit Girls on the Run.
Jamrog, a 40 Under Forty honoree herself (in the inaugural class of 2007), nominated Holloway for the same honor.
“As my business partner over the past nine years,
Jessica has shown extraordinary growth in her business acumen, leadership among our team, and financial planning expertise,” she said in that nomination. “She has done all this while raising three young boys, volunteering for her kids’ schools, volunteering for board work, and hosting
an exchange student from Spain. She is generous, has unbelievable capacity to manage her home, work, and community, and is an overall rock star of a human being.”
—George O’Brien
Congratulations
40 UNDER 40 CLASS OF 2023
Congratulations, Jessica, on your well-deserved recognition!
We are so proud of you!
From all of us at
Disclosure: Securities and investment advisory services offered through registered representatives of MML Investors Services, LLC, Member SIPC. The Jamrog Group is not a subsidiary of MML Investors Services, or its affiliated companies. Supervisory Office: 330 Whitney Ave. Suite 600 Holyoke, MA 01040 Telephone: (413) 539-2000.CRN202604-4223175
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