Dane Mott J.P. Morgan

At No. 3 for a second year running, J.P. Morgan’s Dane Mott, who moved from New York to San Francisco in December, endeared himself to clients with a January primer on the strengths and weaknesses of generally accepted accounting principles standards for tax reporting, as well as an ongoing series about efforts to eliminate discrepancies between domestic and international accounting rules (i.e., those of the U.S.’s Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board). “He not only kept us informed but debunked our misunderstandings,” reports one grateful backer.