Jo Trahms

Managing Director
Chicago

Jo Trahms joined Raymond James in 2024 as managing director in the Commercial & Industrial Services group. Before joining Raymond James, Jo was a vice president at World Kinect Corporation (previously known as World Fuel Services; NYSE: WKC) where she was co-head of corporate development and led energy transition-related acquisitions and corporate venture capital investments. Prior to that, Jo was a senior banker at William Blair in both the U.S. and Europe, where she completed over 40 mergers and acquisitions, private capital raises and public offerings. Before her time in investment banking, Jo started her career at Target and held various direct investing and operational roles. Jo received her BSB from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and her MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.