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About the Company

UBS works with private clients, institutions and corporations around the world to help answer some of life`s questions – whether through expert wealth management advice, investment banking and asset management expertise, or general banking advice in Switzerland. We`re a team of 60,000 colleagues, collaborating across all major financial centres in nearly 900 offices and more than 50 countries, and we`ve been recognised as being good at what we do (by Euromoney and many others). Universum rated us one of the world`s most attractive employers in 2015 for the 7th year in a row. We help our talented colleagues answer some of life`s questions too – by offering a supportive, challenging and diverse working environment that rewards passion, commitment and success.

About the Person

Andy is group CTO of UBS. In this role he is responsible for managing target states, blueprints, road maps and portfolio alignment for each of the businesses, corporate functions (HR, finance, legal, ops), information and for infrastructure. Andy is also responsible for technology business development, innovation and the IT R&D process for the bank. He is a panelist on KPMG Advisory's webcast, Evolution of IT: Innovation. Prior to joining UBS, Andy led enterprise technology and delivery strategy, architecture and optimization for Bank of America. In this role, Andy was responsible for driving technology strategy, architecture and convergence as well as introducing technology innovation into the company. Andy was managing director and CTO for infrastructure at Credit Suisse from 2006 to 2008, where he oversaw a global virtualization initiative as a major tenet in reducing power, servers, storage and data centers. Prior to that, Andy was managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, where he spearheaded strategic plans, guidelines, technology governance processes and technology portfolio management. He originally joined Merrill Lynch in London in 1996, serving in roles in Europe and the United States in infrastructure architecture and engineering, equity technology architecture, GMI architecture, GMI ecommerce, global networks and market data services. Before 1996, Andy led technology architecture for Banque Paribas Capital Markets, based in London and Paris. His major achievement was the rollout of Windows/NT desktop across the PCM businesses, enabling a new generation of desktop financial instrument development and associated revenue streams. In his early career, Andy worked for British Telecom, Royal Dutch Shell and Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in senior programming, analysis and design roles. He holds a B.Sc.(Hons) in Chemical Physics from University College London.