Sharon T. Sager is a senior vice president and private wealth advisor at UBS Private Wealth Management. A CIMA, she began her career in financial services in 1983 with Kidder Peabody & Co., which was acquired by Paine Webber Inc and then by UBS. Barron’s has named her to its Top 100 Women Financial Advisors each year since its inception in 2006. She has appeared on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street and Closing Bell. A native New Yorker, Sharon began her career in textiles and fashion upon receiving a BA from The College of Mount Saint Vincent.

She is the secretary of the board of directors of Careers Through Culinary Arts, on the Board of Overseers for the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation and the Chairman’s Circle of the James Beard Foundation, and an active member of The Economic Club of New York, the Financial Women’s Association, and 85 Broads. Sharon also works with the CEO-UBS Small Business Advisory Program, which is run by the Clinton Foundation’s Economic Opportunity Initiative and UBS and is focused on helping small businesses grow and create new jobs in the community.