Sharon T. Sager is a senior vice president and private wealth advisor at UBS Private Wealth Management. 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 for the past five years. A native New Yorker, Sharon began her career in textiles and fashion upon receiving a BA from The College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York. She is a member of the board of directors of Careers Through Culinary Arts Program 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 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 Co. Galway, while her mother’s, the Carrolls, hail from Co. Cork. She lives with her husband Loring Swasey in New York City and Remsenburg, Long Island.