• UBS AG Key Executives

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    Marcel Rohner was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer (Group CEO) on 6 July 2007 and Chairman & CEO Investment Bank on 1 October 2007. He became a member of the Group Executive Board (GEB) in 2002. Between 2002 and 2007, he was CEO of Wealth Management & Business Banking and additionally named Chairman in 2004. Before that, in 2001 and 2002, he was Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Deputy CEO of the Private Banking unit of UBS Switzerland. In 1999, he was named Group Chief Risk Officer (Group CRO), after being appointed Head of Market Risk Control of Warburg Dillon Read in 1998. Between 1993 and 1998, Mr Rohner was with Swiss Bank Corporation's investment banking arm and in 1995 he was appointed Head of Market Risk Control Europe. Mr Rohner graduated with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Zurich and was a teaching assistant at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Zurich from 1990 to 1992. He was born on 4 September 1964. Marcel Rohner is Vice Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association, Basel and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Finance Institute.
    Total Compensation: $ 1.35 M
    Marco Suter was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer and became a member of the GEB in October 2007. Prior to this appointment, he was elected as a member of the Board of Directors at the annual general meeting in April 2005 and thereafter appointed as Executive Vice Chairman. Marco Suter has been with UBS and its predecessor, Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC), since 1974. Between 1999 and 2005, he was Group Chief Credit Officer and a member of the Group Managing Board. From 1996 until the merger of SBC and Union Bank of Switzerland in 1998 he served as regional manager of the Zurich-Eastern Switzerland-Ticino area for the corporate and commercial banking activities of SBC. Prior to that, he held various management positions in SBC's investment banking operations, first as the Continental European Head of Merchant Banking and later as the Chief Credit Officer for EMEA. Mr Suter graduated from the Commercial School in St. Gallen. He was born on 7 May 1958. Marco Suter is a member of the Swiss Institute of International Studies (SIAF), the Latin-American Chamber of Commerce (Switzerland), the Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the IIF Special Committee on Crises Prevention and Resolution in Emerging Markets. Marco Suter stepped down from the Board of Directors (BoD) on 30 September 2007.
    Joe Scoby - Chief Risk Officer
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    Joe Scoby was appointed Group CRO and became a member of the GEB in October 2007. Prior to this appointment, he was Global Head of Alternative and Quantitative Investments (A&Q), an alternative investment platform in UBS's asset management business between 2003 and 2007. Previously, between 2000 and 2003, he headed O'Connor, a specialist hedge fund provider within the same alternative investment platform. From 1995-1999, he was the Joint Head of US Equities at UBS's Investment Bank. Joseph Scoby began his career with O'Connor and Associates in 1987 and became a Managing Director in 1993. He has a Bachelor's degree in Finance from Wharton School and a Master's degree in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He was born on 23 April 1965. Joe Scoby is a member of the Wharton School Undergraduate Executive Board, a member of the Board of Chicago's After School Matters and a member of the Board of Children's Memorial Hospital. He was the founder of St. Joseph Club in Chicago.
    Peter Kurer - General Counsel
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    Peter Kurer has been the Group General Counsel since 2001, when he joined UBS. Between 1991 and 2001 he was a partner at the Homburger law firm in Zurich. Between 1980 and 1990 he was with the Zurich office of Baker & McKenzie law firm, first as associate, later as partner, having been a law clerk at the District Court of Zurich. Mr Kurer graduated as a doctor iuris from the University of Zurich and was admitted as attorney-at-law in Zurich. He holds an LL.M. from the University of Chicago and was born on 28 June 1949. Peter Kurer is a member of the Visiting Committee to the Law School of The University of Chicago, a member of the Board of Trustees of a foundation which acts as an advisory board to the University of St. Gallen Program for law and economics, and a member of the Committee of Continuing Education, Executive School of Management, Technology and Law, University of St. Gallen.
    Rory Tapner - CEO, Geographical/Chairman of the Board, Geographical
    Total Compensation: $ 5.81 M
    Rory Tapner became a member of the GEB in January 2006. He was appointed Chairman and CEO Asia Pacific in May 2004. Previously, he was Joint Global Head of Investment Banking. From 1983 to 1998, he was with S.G. Warburg and Warburg Dillon Read as Global Head of Equity Capital Markets, Joint Head of UK Corporate Finance and Head of UK Capital Markets Team. He also was a member of the Warburg Dillon Read Executive Board. Rory Tapner has a law degree from Kings College, London University and went to Lancaster Gate Law School. Mr Tapner was born on 30 September 1959. Rory Tapner is the treasurer and Chairman of the Financial Committee of Council of Kings College University, London.
    Jerker Johannsson - CEO, Divisional/Chairman of the Board, Divisional
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    Jerker Johannsson has been appointed as Chairman and CEO of the Investment Bank. He took on the role on 17 March 2008, joining UBS from Morgan Stanley, where he was Vice Chairman Europe. He will become a member of the GEB at this date.
    Robert Wolf - CEO, Geographical/Chairman of the Board, Geographical/Other Executive Officer/President, Geographical
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    To strengthen the management structure of the firm, Robert Wolf was appointed to the GEB as of 14 February 2008. Robert Wolf, Chairman and CEO, UBS Group Americas and President and COO, Investment Bank.
    Sergio Marchionne - Director/Vice Chairman
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    Sergio Marchionne serves as CEO of Fiat S.p.A., Turin, and Fiat Group Automobiles. Sergio Marchionne began his professional career in 1983 as a Chartered Accountant and Tax Specialist for Deloitte & Touche in Canada. Two years later, he became Group Controller and then Director of Corporate Development at Lawson Mardon Group of Toronto. In 1989 and 1990, he served as Executive Vice President of Glenex Industries. In the following two years Sergio Marchionne acted as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Acklands Ltd. He returned to Lawson Mardon Group in 1992 as Vice President of Legal and Corporate Development and CFO. The company was acquired by Alusuisse Lonza (Algroup) in 1994. After the acquisition he held various positions of increasing responsibility until 2000, after having become CEO in 1996. After completing the merger of Alusuisse with Alcan, he acted as CEO and Chairman of the spin-off Lonza Group Ltd. In 2002, Sergio Marchionne was appointed CEO of the Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS) Group of Geneva, and in early 2006 he became Chairman of the same company. He has been a member of the BoD of Fiat S.p.A. since 2003 and served as CEO of the company from June 2004 onwards. Sergio Marchionne studied philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada, business at the University of Windsor, Canada, and law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada, and is a lawyer and chartered accountant. He was born on 17 June 1952. Sergio Marchionne is a member of the Supervisory Board of Hochtief AG.
    Marcel Ospel - Director/Chairman of the Board
    Total Compensation: $ 2.57 M
    Marcel Ospel has been Chairman of the Board of Directors (BoD) of UBS AG since 2001. Prior to this, he served as Group Chief Executive Officer (Group CEO) of UBS. He was the President and Group CEO of Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) from 1996 to 1998. He was appointed CEO of SBC Warburg in 1995, having been a member of the Executive Board of SBC since 1990. From 1987 to 1990, he was in charge of Securities Trading and Sales at SBC. From 1984 to 1987, Mr Ospel was a Managing Director with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and from 1980 to 1984, he worked at SBC International London and New York in the Capital Markets division. He began his career at SBC in the Central Planning and Marketing Division in 1977. Mr Ospel graduated from the School of Economics and Business Administration (SEBA) in Basel and holds an "Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree" of the University of Rochester. He was born on 8 February 1950. Marcel Ospel is a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's International Advisory Panel. He is a trustee of the Foundation Board of the Patronate Committee for the Basel Museums of Art and of the Committee for the Museum of Antiques, Basel, and is the Chairman of the "Optimus Foundation", a charitable foundation administered by UBS. Marcel Ospel is the treasurer of "Economiesuisse", the Swiss business federation, Zurich, and is a member of the European Financial Services Round Table, Brussels.
    Stephan Haeringer - Director/Vice Chairman
    Total Compensation: $ 1.87 M
    Before being elected to the BoD in 2004, Stephan Haeringer was Deputy President of the Group Executive Board (GEB), a position he held between 2002 and 2004. Between 2000 and 2002, he was CEO of UBS Switzerland and the Private and Corporate Clients business. In 1998, following the UBS-SBC merger, he was appointed the Division Head of Private and Corporate Clients. He originally joined the former Union Bank of Switzerland in 1967, assuming a broad variety of responsibilities within the firm - among them CEO Region Switzerland, Division Head Private Banking and Institutional Asset Management and Head of the Financial Division. Between 1967 and 1988, Mr Haeringer was assigned various management roles in the areas of Investment Counseling, Specialized Investments, Portfolio Management, Securities Administration and Collateral Loans. He received professional training at Williams de Broe Hill Chaplin & Cie, London, and at Goldman Sachs & Co. and Brown Brothers Harriman in New York. Mr Haeringer was born on 6 December 1946. Stephan Haeringer is a member of the Board of the Helmut Horten Foundation, Croglio (Ticino, Switzerland), Chairman of the Foundation Board of the UBS Pension Fund, a member of the Board Committee of the Zurich Chamber of Commerce, a member of the German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, a member of the "Institut International D'Etudes Bancaires" and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Goethe Business School, Frankfurt.
    David H. Sidwell - Director
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    David Sidwell, former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Morgan Stanley.
    Joerg Wolle - Director
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    Since 2002, Joerg Wolle has been President and CEO of DKSH Holding Ltd. From 2000 until the merger with Diethelm Keller in 2002, he was President and CEO of SiberHegner Holding AG. He completed his studies in engineering in 1983 and received his doctorate in 1987 from the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. Joerg Wolle was born on 19 April 1957.
    Marten Hoekstra - Other Corporate Officer/Other Executive Officer
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    To strengthen the management structure of the firm, Marten Hoekstra was appointed to the GEB as of 14 February 2008. Marten Hoekstra, Deputy CEO, Global Wealth Management & Business Banking and Head of Wealth Management, Americas.
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    Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler has been a partner with Levy Kaufmann-Kohler since 1 January 2008 and has also been a professor of international private law at the University of Geneva since 1997. Between 1996 and 2007 she was a partner at the Schellenberg Wittmer law firm. From 1985 to 1995 she was a partner at Baker & McKenzie law firm. She is a member of the Geneva Bar (since 1976) and of the New York State Bar (since 1981) and is known worldwide for her expertise in international arbitration. Ms Kaufmann-Kohler completed her legal studies at the University of Basel in 1977 and received her doctorate from the same institution in 1979. She was born on 3 November 1952. Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler is a member of the American Arbitration Association.
    Alexander Wilmot-Sitwell - CEO, Geographical/Chairman of the Board, Geographical/Other Corporate Officer
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    To strengthen the management structure of the firm, Alexander Wilmot-Sitwell was appointed to the GEB as of 14 February 2008. Alexander Wilmot-Sitwell, Joint Global Head Investment Banking Department, UBS Investment Bank, and Chairman and CEO, UBS Group Europe, Middle East & Africa.
    Peter Spuhler - Director
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    Peter Spuhler is the owner of Stadler Rail AG (Switzerland), which he acquired in 1989 when it was a small firm with 18 employees. Today the Stadler Rail Group has more than 2,500 staff and is an internationally successful light railway car business. Since 1997, Peter Spuhler has taken over a number of companies and founded new units within the Stadler Rail Group, mainly in Switzerland and in Germany. Mr Spuhler joined Stadler AG in 1987 as an employee after studying economics at the University of St. Gallen. He was born on 9 January 1959. Peter Spuhler is Chairman of Stadler Rail AG and of Stadler Bussnang AG, as well as of various companies within the Stadler Rail Group. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Kuhne Holding, Switzerland, and Walo Bertschinger Central AG, Switzerland. He is Vice President of LITRA, a Swiss organization based in Berne that provides informational services in the interests of public transport. Peter Spuhler is a member of the National Council of the Swiss Parliament (lower house).
    John A. Fraser - Divisional CEO/Divisional Chairman of the Board
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    John A. Fraser was appointed as Chairman and CEO of the Global Asset Management Business Group in late 2001. Prior to that, he was President and COO of UBS Asset Management and Head of Asia Pacific. From 1994 to 1998 he was Executive Chairman and CEO of SBC Australia Funds Management Ltd. Before joining UBS, Mr Fraser held various positions at the Australian Treasury, including two international postings to Washington DC - first, at the International Monetary Fund and, second, as Minister (Economic) at the Australian Embassy. From 1990 to 1993, he was Deputy Secretary (Economic) of the Australian Treasury. Mr Fraser graduated from Monash University in Australia in 1972 and holds a first-class honors degree in economics. He was born on 8 August 1951. John A. Fraser is a member of the board of the Marymount International School at Kingston-upon-Thames.
    Walter Stuerzinger - Other Executive Officer
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    Walter Stuerzinger became a member of the GEB in 2005. He was appointed COO, Corporate Center in October 2007. Prior to that, he was Group CRO from 2001 until 2007 and Head Group Internal Audit from 1998 until 2001. Before the merger, he was Head Group Internal Audit at the former Union Bank of Switzerland. Previously, he worked with Credit Suisse on various assignments in the controlling and auditing areas. Walter Stuerzinger holds a Swiss banking diploma and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He was born on 6 July 1955. Walter Stuerzinger is a member of the Foundation Board of the UBS Pension Fund.
    Raoul Weil - CEO, Divisional/Chairman of the Board, Divisional
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    Raoul Weil was appointed Chairman and CEO Global Wealth Management & Business Banking on 6 July 2007. He was Head of Wealth Management International between 2002 and 2007 and was appointed to the GEB in July 2005. Previous to that, he assumed different management roles in the Private Banking Division in Asia and Europe. Between 1984 and 1998, Mr Weil was with SBC, holding various assignments within the Private Banking Division in Basel, Zurich, Monaco and New York. He graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Basel and was born on 13 November 1959.
    Peter Voser - Director
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    Peter Voser has been Chief Financial Officer of Royal Dutch Shell plc in London since 2004. Between 2002 and 2004, he was CFO of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) in Switzerland. Between 1982 and 2002, he worked for the Royal Dutch / Shell Group, holding various assignments in Switzerland, UK, Argentina and Chile. Mr Voser graduated at the University of Applied Sciences, Zurich. He was born on 29 August 1958. Peter Voser is a board member of the Federal Auditor Oversight Authority.
    Helmut Panke - Director
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    Helmut Panke was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Munich, between 2002 and September 2006. In 1982, he joined as head of Planning and Controlling in the Research and Development Division. He subsequently assumed management functions in corporate planning, organization and corporate strategy. Before his appointment as Chairman, he was a member of BMW's Board of Management from 1996. Between 1993 and 1996, he was Chairman and CEO of BMW Holding Corporation in the US. Today, he holds several board memberships. Mr Panke graduated from the University of Munich with a doctoral degree in physics (Ph.D.) and was assigned to the University of Munich and the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research before joining McKinsey in Dusseldorf and Munich as a consultant. He was born on 31 August 1946. Helmut Panke is a member of the Board of Directors of Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (USA). Helmut Panke is a member of the Board of Directors of American Chamber of Commerce in Germany and a member of the International Advisory Board for Dubai International Capital's "Global Strategic Equities Fund".
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    Ernesto Bertarelli was CEO of Serono International SA, Geneva between 1996 and 2007. He started his career with Serono in 1985 and held several positions in sales and marketing. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he served for five years as Deputy CEO. Mr Bertarelli holds a Bachelor of Science from Babson College Boston and a Harvard MBA. He was born on 22 September 1965. Ernesto Bertarelli is the Chairman of Kedge Capital Partners Ltd. Jersey, of Team Alinghi SA, Ecublens (Switzerland), and of Alinghi Holdings Ltd, Jersey. He holds various board mandates in professional organizations of the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
    Peter Bockli - Director
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    Peter Böckli, non-executive Vice Chairman since 2002, has been a member of the Board of Directors of UBS and its predecessor Swiss Bank Corporation since 1985. He has been a partner in the law office of Böckli Bodmer & Partners since 1981 and was a part-time professor of tax and business law at the University of Basel from 1975 to 2001. From 1963 to 1981, he was an attorney-at-law in New York, Paris, and Basel. Mr. Böckli graduated as doctor iuris from the University of Basel and as an attorney-at-law and is a nonresident member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He was born on 7 May 1936. Peter Böckli is a member of the Board of Directors of Nestlé S.A.,Vevey (Switzerland), where he is the Chairman of its Remuneration Committee. He is a member of the Board of Manufacture des Montres Rolex S.A., Bienne (Switzerland), and is the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Wilhelm Doerenkamp Foundation, Chur (Switzerland), and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Holler Foundation, Munich (Germany).
    Rolf A. Meyer - Director
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    Rolf A. Meyer has been a member of the BoD of UBS and its predecessor, Union Bank of Switzerland, since 1992. He was Chairman and CEO of Ciba Specialty Chemicals Ltd. until November 2000. Today, he holds several board memberships. He first joined Ciba-Geigy Group in 1973 as a financial analyst and subsequently became Group Company Controller in Johannesburg, South Africa, Head of Strategic Planning and Control in Basel, Head of Finance and Information Systems in Ardsley, N.Y., and later CFO of the Group. After the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz to create Novartis, he led the spin-off of Ciba Specialty Chemicals. Mr Meyer graduated in Political Science (Ph.D.) and holds a Master of Business Administration (lic. oec. HSG). He was born on 31 October 1943. Rolf A. Meyer is a member of the Board of Directors of DKSH AG (Diethelm Keller Siber Hegner), Zurich, and is the Chairman of its Audit and Finance Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Ascom (Switzerland) Ltd., Bern.
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    Lawrence A. Weinbach is a partner of the Yankee Hill Capital Management LLC, a private equity firm based in Southport, CT (USA). He was Executive Chairman of Unisys Corporation until January 2006. From 1997 to 2004 he was Chairman, President and CEO of Unisys Corporation. From 1961 to 1997 he was with Arthur Andersen / Andersen Worldwide as Managing Partner and was Chief Executive of Andersen Worldwide from 1989 to 1997, Chief Operating Officer from 1987 to 1989, and Managing Partner of the New York office from 1983. He was elected to partnership at Arthur Andersen in 1970 and became Managing Partner of the Stamford, Connecticut, office in 1974 and Partner in charge of the accounting and audit practice in New York from 1980 to 1983. Mr Weinbach is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was born on 8 January 1940. Lawrence A. Weinbach is a member of the Board of Directors of Avon Products Inc., New York, where he is the Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is a trustee and member of the audit committee of Carnegie Hall, New York and a member of the Board of Directors of Quadra Realty Trust, Inc., New York and Discover Financial Services, Riverwoods, Illinois. Lawrence A. Weinbach is a member of the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Advisory Committee and of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.