Dr. Simon K. Basler

Group-wide strategic partnerships and long-term strategy, with a focus on institutional tokenization and the infrastructure behind it. - Set up the global partnership framework - Assess potential strategic partners against clear criteria, as a senior member of the central office of a partnership initiative - Brief senior management on markets and digital assets across Switzerland, EMEA, the US and Asia - Use AI tools daily for research, analysis, market monitoring and presentations

Initiative Development Lead in UBS's Center of Excellence for the group-wide Digital Assets initiative, team of four. - Strategy papers and decision proposals for the Board of Directors and Group Executive Board - Digital Assets education for the Group Executive Board and the management level below - Governance, OKRs, cost management and reporting; operating model with group-wide digital asset hub - Deposit tokens with the Swiss Bankers Association, PostFinance and Sygnum; zkSync proof of concept

Global service management and development for GWM Operations (custody, corporate actions, reporting, post-trade), with 20 direct and 48 dotted-line staff. - Regulatory programs: CSDR, SRD II, FTT, AEI-FATCA, EUDAC - Target operating models, sourcing strategies, steering framework with unit cost and quality KPIs - Investment governance for the Operations change portfolio; deputy for the Global Head of GWM Operations - Represented Operations in the UBS Digital Assets core teams (2019-2021)

Global service management for client reporting and tax reporting, with a team of up to ten staff. - Set up global service management for client and tax reporting; client tax reporting costs reduced by around 40% - AEI-FATCA rollout across all business divisions (700+ reportable entities) - Defined the global Tax Reporting operating model and controls - Front-to-back business cases for outsourcing, near-shoring and digitalization; unit cost and quality KPI framework

Product management for client tax reporting, reclaims and specialist services for UHNW clients and corporates, with a team of 29 staff and 10-15 consultants. - Tax portfolio of the strategic tax initiative (FATCA, tax agreements CHAT/UK) - Set up the tax competence center for Private Banking

Eight years in Private Banking, from strategy projects to head of sector roles; promoted to Assistant Vice President (2004), Vice President (2005) and Director (2008). - Management Board decision papers on market entry, UHNWI acquisition and the intermediary business; strategic pricing - Headed product management for safekeeping-related products (six product managers), then Strategic Offering Management (team of six) - Headed Client Profitability Management in Private Banking COO (eight staff)

Program Manager at the Swiss Banking School (today Swiss Finance Institute), reporting directly to the school director. - Built the International Private Banking & Wealth Management Retreat for CEOs and executive board members and ran it (budget, content, faculty, marketing) - Academic support for the Executive Program (examinations, supervision of theses, group work); teaching material - Co-authored the Private Banking field studies on value chain disintegration and segmentation of the newly wealthy

Thesis: Wealth Planning for Entrepreneurs Considering Private and Business Interests. Life-cycle based asset allocation model including private and entrepreneurial wealth and liabilities.

Vermögensplanung von Unternehmer im Spannungsfeld der betrieblichen u. private Sphäre; besondere Berücksichtigung der Life Cycle Asset Allocation sowie steuerlicher Aspekte

Focus in Portfolio Theory and Capital Markets, Corporate Finance and Financial Management, International Economics.

Corporate Finance, Portfolio Management, Internationale Makroökonomie