As a 23-year veteran of the financial securities industry, Sharon Sager holds the title of Senior Vice President, Investments and Private Wealth Advisor at UBS Financial Services Inc.

Sharon previously worked in the textile industry having graduated from the college of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. Later, she obtained the Certified Investment Analyst (CIMA) degree at the Wharton School 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.

Sager is a member of the board of directors of C-CAP (Careers Through Culinary Arts Program), former co-chairman of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Venture Fund, a not-for-profit micro lender, and in the President’s Circle of the James Beard Foundation. Sager was recently named in Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors. She is a second-generation Irish American and true to her roots, she holds membership in the Irish Georgian Society and the New York Irish History Roundtable. Her father’s family is from Galway, while her mother’s, the Carrolls, hail from Cork.