Keynote

Teresa M. Ressel
CEO
UBS Securities LLC

Teresa M. Ressel CEO, UBS Securities LLC Ms. Ressel serves as the COO Americas for UBS Investment Bank since joining UBS in 2004, and was named CEO, UBS Securities LLC for UBS Investment Bank in 2006 which is responsible for UBS’ broker dealer operations. Teresa manages a broad array of management, supervisory control, regulatory, compliance, and logistics functions for the Investment Bank covering the United States and Canada.

Prior to UBS, Teresa was confirmed by the United States Senate as Assistant Secretary for Management and Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Treasury. Teresa’s role as Chief Financial Officer included ownership for audit and controller functions, financial reporting, cost management, risk management, as well as budget formulation and budget execution. She began her government service in 2001 and departed in 2004. Teresa’s leadership focus during her tenure included eliminating several material weaknesses findings, assisting the Secretary of the Treasury implementing timely financial closing statements, and improving the quality of pension plan reporting.

Prior to government service and investment banking, Teresa served as an executive at Kaiser Permanente headquarters Oakland, California from 1993-2000. Teresa managed several Shared Services service platforms, was then named Chief Compliance Officer for the enterprise to restore credibility for the organization with Regulatory agencies, and then was promoted to serve Chief Operating Officer deploying e commerce solutions for key clients. Previously, Teresa worked at Hewlett Packard within their corporate auditing functions based in Palo Alto, and then followed by serving as the Program Manager deploying Corporate Programs across Asia Pacific working in Hong Kong, Japan, China, India and Singapore (1990 thru 1994).

Ms. Ressel graduated from the University of Delaware (1987). She completed her MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1990).

Ms. Ressel received the U.S. Treasury Medal for her service as the Department’s Chief Financial Officer, and the Treasury Department’s Distinguished Service Medal for her contributions across financial management and financial controls. In February 2004, Ms. Ressel was honored with the IRS Commissioner’s Award, the highest award for public service from the Internal Revenue Service Commissioner, for her leadership improving financial and risk management systems within the IRS Oversight Board.

Since 2005, Ms. Ressel serves on the Board of Directors of The Clearing House, New York, NY which is the leading private sector payment system infrastructure for clearing and settling US Dollar payments. Teresa also serves as trustee at the Institute for International Banking (IIB), New York, NY which represents international banks relative to their US activities. Teresa is actively involved in fostering employee involvement across a broad range of charitable organizations and personally serves on the Board of Advisors of The Washington Home, one of the nation’s oldest hospice programs based in Washington, DC. The Ressel family resides in Connecticut.

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