Colm Kelleher was elected to the Board of Directors (BoD) of UBS Group in April 2022. As Chairman of the BoD, he chairs both the Corporate Culture and Responsibility Committee and the Governance and Nominating Committee. UBS is the leading global wealth manager, provides large-scale and diversified asset management, focused investment banking capabilities, and personal and corporate banking services in Switzerland.
Until 2019, Colm was President of Morgan Stanley, overseeing both the Institutional Securities Business and Wealth Management. Previously, he was Co-President (2010-2012), then President of Morgan Stanley Institutional Securities from 2013 to 2015, and CEO of Morgan Stanley International from 2011 to 2016. He held the position of CFO and Co-Head Corporate Strategy from 2007 to 2009 and served as Morgan Stanley’s Head of Global Capital Markets from 2006 to 2007.
He has a master’s degree in modern history from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Colm also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Norfolk Southern Corporation since 2019. He is furthermore a member of the Board of the Swiss Finance Council, the Bretton Woods Committee, and the Bank Policy Institute, among others.