Stefan Arn

Chief Information Officer, UBS Wealth Management and UBS Switzerland & Group IT Head for Strategic Regulatory Initiatives

UBS Global Wealth Management

Profile:

Stefan Arn is a remarkably successful entrepreneur in the technology sector with a wealth of experience in the banking sector, execution of strategic global initiatives and leadership of cross-cultural, transcontinental organisations of more than 3'000 UBS IT professionals.

As an energetic and charismatic personality, Stefan has a solid track record of successfully delivering innovative, differentiating next-generation banking capabilities at the best value for money to the UBS Wealth Management and Corporate & Institutional businesses around the world, alongside the private client/Retail business in Switzerland. By executing key strategic programs such as TBTF (White/NewCo), Cetus Germany and One Platform he is acting as a key enabler for UBS' strategic ambitions and priorities.

Besides Stefan Arn's pivotal achievements on the Change-the-Bank, digital strategy, innovation and transformational agenda, he ensures provisioning rock-solid production stability on industrialised and standardised platforms.

Stefan Arn studied computer science at ETH Zurich. He was a successful entrepreneur in the IT industry before joining UBS in 2007. He is an opinion leader within the IT industry, an established name in the media landscape, a top-rated international keynote speaker, visionary and recognised for his tech-savvy innovative mind set as well as a trusted C-Level adviser.

He was awarded Ernst & Young's 'Entrepreneur of the Year 2003' and represented Switzerland at the 'World Entrepreneur of the Year'. Stefan Arn is Board Member of ‘ingCH – Engineers Shape our Future’, ICTswitzerland – umbrella association of IT and Telecom associations and RISE – Research Center for Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship of the University of St. Gallen.

Stefan Arn, born in 1961, lives in the upper Zurich lake region. He is a passionate race car driver.

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Strategy & Practice Management

Sticking to what's core for a successful platform Private banks must constantly evolve and fine-tune their digital platforms to deliver on what clients want and how they prefer to interact with their advisers, according to UBS' Stefan Arn. But they must do this in line with a clear strategy and plan of execution..

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