Sharon Sager, senior vice president of investments, is a private wealth advisor at UBS Financial Services Inc. A 25-year veteran of the financial securities industry, Sharon previously worked in the textile industry. She graduated from the College of Mount St. Vincent with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. Later, she obtained the Certified Investment Analyst degree from the Investment Management Consultants Association. In 1983, she began her financial career at Kidder Peabody & Co., which merged with Paine Webber in 1995 and UBS in 2000. Sharon is a member of the board of directors of the Careers Through Culinary Arts Program.

In 2006, 2007 and 2008 Sharon was named one of Barron’s “Top 100 Women Financial Advisors,” and will be again in 2009. She was also named to Barron’s “Top 1,000 Advisors” in 2009. Sharon is a second-generation Irish American and holds membership in the Irish Georgian Society and the New York Irish History Roundtable. Her father’s family, the O’Tooles, is from County Galway, while her mother’s, the Carrolls, hail from County Cork.