Thomas C. Naratil (born 1961) is an American business executive in the financial industry.[2] After serving as president of both UBS Wealth Management Americas and UBS Americas since early 2016,[3] Naratil was appointed CEO of UBS Americas Holding LLC and became co-president of Global Wealth Management of UBS Group AG and UBS AG in early 2018.[4]
Tom Naratil[1] | |
|---|---|
| Born | Thomas Christopher Naratil 1 December 1961 |
| Alma mater | Yale University New York University Stern School of Business |
| Occupation | Business executive |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Employer | UBS Group AG |
| Board member of | American Swiss Foundation, Consultors for the College of Nursing at Villanova University, UBS Americas Holding LLC |
| Spouse | Wendy Naratil |
| Children | 5 |
Naratil started his career in finance in 1983 when he joined the brokerage firm Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis. The Swiss bank UBS acquired PaineWebber in 2000[2] and Naratil would hold various senior management positions at UBS Group, including chief financial officer (CFO) and chief operating officer (COO) from 2014 to 2015.[5] Naratil succeeded Robert McCann as president of both UBS Wealth Management Americas and UBS Americas. In 2016,[3] Naratil led a reorganization that involved cutting recruitment of US advisors and thinning management ranks, while also increasing compensation for UBS advisors.[6][7][8]
He is on the boards of organizations such as the American Swiss Foundation and College of Nursing at Villanova University, and has served on its Clearing House Supervisory Board.[9][10]
Early life and education
editThomas C. Naratil was born in 1961 in the United States.[2] After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Yale University in 1983, he earned a Master of Business Administration degree in economics from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1990.[9] Naratil served in the United States Army Reserve for six years.[11]
Career
edit1983-2008: UBS PaineWebber
editIn July[9] 1983 Naratil joined the American brokerage firm Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis[2] through its corporate intern program. He became a trading assistant in the firm’s taxed fixed income (TFI) unit in January 1985, and the unit later appointed him manager of risk, origination, sales, and marketing. From 1987 to 1993 Naratil co-managed the TFI unit’s government and federal agency trading desk, and in 1994[9] he became PaineWebber's TFI director.[12] The Swiss bank UBS acquired PaineWebber in 2000,[2] renaming it UBS PaineWebber in 2001.[13] Initially appointed director of UBS PaineWebber’s investment products group, in 2002 the division appointed him director of its transactions products group[9] and director of banking and transactional solutions.[5] In 2003 UBS PaineWebber was renamed UBS Wealth Management USA.[14]
UBS selected Naratil as its global head of market strategy and development in 2005. In that role, he was responsible for "the sales, marketing and trading of all taxable debt, convertible securities and preferred stock" of UBS.[9] In 2007 he was named UBS's global head of marketing, segment and client development. During the 2007–2008 financial crisis, he served as head of UBS’s Auction Rate Securities Solutions Group.[5]
2009-2015: UBS CFO and COO
editIn 2009[8] Naratil was appointed chief financial officer (CFO) and chief risk officer (CRO) of UBS Wealth Management Americas,[2] a role he held until 2011.[3][8] In May 2011 he began serving as UBS’s global CFO, moving from the United States to Zurich, Switzerland to succeed John Cryan[2] as both CFO and a member of UBS's Group Executive Board,[15] which Naratil joined on June 1, 2011. On January 1,[9] 2014, he was named UBS’s chief operating officer (COO) in addition to his CFO responsibilities. He retained both his COO and CFO roles until the end of 2015.[9]
2016-2018: president of UBS Americas and UBS Wealth Management Americas
editAppointment
editNaratil succeeded Robert McCann as president of both UBS Wealth Management Americas and UBS Americas on January 1, 2016,[3] tasked by UBS executives with "extending the brokerage’s profit beyond roughly $1 billion annually."[8] The Wall Street Journal wrote that Naratil was expected to continue the unit’s focus on "primarily serving clients who have millions of dollars to invest."[3] In May 2016[16] Naratil created an alliance with the financial technology company SigFig to create fintech products for UBS, among them a digital platform to support his financial advisors.[7]
Wealth Management Americas re-organization
editNaratil led a reorganization at UBS’s US wealth management arm in June 2016[6] to "push decision-making authority down to the firm’s 208 local managers," giving managers control of their team structures, allocation of marketing and event resources, and pricing for services and products.[7] The reorganization involved cutting recruitment of US advisors by 40 percent annually, as well as thinning management ranks.[6] Around 60 senior executives and support staff "sandwiched between upper management and the local level" were redeployed or cut, with Naratil eliminating 20 percent of the managing directors and 10% of the executive directors working from UBS Americas’ home office. With the funds saved from reducing overhead, Naratil built "a SWAT team of roving experts," including specialist-lending and technology experts, to work with local advisors.[7] Also as part of the restructuring, he oversaw a simplification of the arm’s compensation plan. Taking effect in 2017, Naratil said no advisor would get less cash under the plan,[6] which left base pay levels for advisors unchanged.[8] Beyond increasing pay to select advisors[6] and pay to advisors with the most business, the changes also offered incentives for working in teams, bringing in new business, and selling client books within the firm upon retiring.[7] "Following UBS's lead," Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley also announced plans in 2017 to change their recruitment and compensation plans.[17]
2018-present: co-president of Global Wealth Management of UBS Group AG and UBS AG and CEO of UBS Americas Holding LLC.
editIn January 2018, Naratil was appointed CEO of UBS Americas Holding LLC.[4]
In February 2018, became co-president of Global Wealth Management of UBS Group AG and UBS AG alongside Martin Blessing.[4][18] Iqbal Khan succeeded Blessing, becoming Naratil’s co-president, on October 1, 2019.[19]
Interviewed by Bloomberg in late March 2020, Naratil observed that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, “The biggest difference between now and 2008 is that the banks are a source of strength rather than the source of the problem”.[20]
Memberships and directorships
editNaratil is involved with several corporate and philanthropic boards. He is on the board of the American Swiss Foundation[9][21] and the board of consultors for the College of Nursing at Villanova University. He has also served on Villanova's Clearing House Supervisory Board.[9]
Writing and public speaking
editNaratil has written for publications such as Business Insider[22] and The Hill on financial and economic matters.[23] He has also been interviewed by networks and newspapers such as CNBC,[24] Fox Business,[25] Reuters,[26] and Bloomberg TV.[27]
Personal life
editNaratil and his wife Wendy[28] have five children, three of whom also work in the financial services industry,[29] and reside in New Jersey.[11] In 2013, Yale University accepted an endowment from Naratil and his wife to fund the Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil Pioneer Award, which supports "an investigation that is either highly inventive or close to a major breakthrough in advancing women’s health — where funding is needed to reach its aims."[28]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Decade Ahead for Investors with Tom Naratil". UBS. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g "UBS Appoints an American As Its Chief Financial Officer", The New York Times, Julia Werdigier, December 4, 2010
- ^ a b c d e "UBS Names New U.S. Brokerage Chief", Wall Street Journal, Michael Wurtshorn, November 3, 2015
- ^ a b c "CV Tom Naratil". Global topics. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
- ^ a b c "Naratil, Tom", Reuters
- ^ a b c d e "UBS will cut recruitment of US brokers by 40%", Wall Street Journal, Michael Wursthorn, June 9, 2016
- ^ a b c d e "UBS: New Boss, New Mission", Barron’s, Sonia Talati, September 17, 2016
- ^ a b c d e "New UBS Brokerage Head in U.S. Faces Challenges", Wall Street Journal, Michael Wursthorn, January 29, 2016
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Thomas Naratil", Bloomberg
- ^ "CV Tom Naratil". Global topics. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
- ^ a b About Us - Tom Naratil, UBS
- ^ "Corts, Cabcos and Other Bond-Like Mutants", The Street, Elizabeth Roy Stanton,October 1, 1999
- ^ Advertising: Introducing UBS PaineWebber, Post Merger. The New York Times, March 5, 2001
- ^ "After Two Steady Years, UBS Shuffles Managers", The New York Times, September 18, 2003
- ^ "UBS to grow investment bank", The Telegraph, November 3, 2015
- ^ "SigFig, an Automated Investment Firm, Will Team Up With UBS", The New York Times, Liz Moyer, May 16, 2016
- ^ "Morgan Stanley Joins Rivals in Curbing Broker Recruiting", The Wall Street Journal, Michael Wursthorn, May 23, 2017
- ^ "UBS wealth merger creates £1.7trn powerhouse". Wealth Manager. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
- ^ "Iqbal Khan receives $8.1m to join UBS". Financial Times. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ "Bank of America's Race to Avoid Public Shaming Underscores the Perils of the Crisis". The Washington Post. March 30, 2020. Archived from the original on March 28, 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ Board of Directors, American Swiss Foundation, 2016
- ^ "$1 Trillion Wealth Manages: Invest in America now", Business Insider, Tom Naratil, February 12, 2017
- ^ "America needs more than public funds to solve its infrastructure problem", The Hill, Tom Naratil, April 11, 2017
- ^ "UBS Posts $1 Billion 1st-Quarter Profit", The New York Times, April 30, 2013
- ^ "Small Business Owners Optimistic About Investing, Hiring in 2017", Fox Business, Mathew Wisner, January 18, 2017
- ^ "UBS's head of U.S. wealth management bullish about growth", Reuters, Elizabeth Dilts, November 17, 2016
- ^ "Naratil Says UBS to Cut Costs Up to 2 Billion Francs", The Washington Post, Elena Logutenkova, July 26, 2011
- ^ a b "Women’s Health Research at Yale funds pilot projects on debilitating and lethal diseases", Nephrology, Daniel Jones, June 9, 2014
- ^ "Sustaining a vision" (PDF). Villanova Nursing: 14. Spring 2016.