Alex Wilmot-Sitwell is a partner at Perella Weinberg Partners in its London-based advisory practice.^[1] He had earlier headed Bank of America Merrill Lynch's businesses across Europe and emerging markets excluding Asia, before resigning his post in April 2018.^[2] He served as co-Chairman & CEO, UBS Investment Bank until 26 April 2009. Before that he was Joint Global Head of Investment Banking, and Chairman & CEO, EMEA of UBS Group.^[3]

Early life

Wilmot-Sitwell was born in March 1961, the son of the banker Peter Wilmot-Sitwell and his wife Clare.^[4]

Career

He started in South Africa on the board of the Tollgate Group, to which he was appointed "largely as a favour to [his] father",^[5] then a senior partner at Tollgate's UK stockbroker Rowe and Pitman. Tollgate eventually failed in "one of the most torrid, unpleasant and seamy corporate chapters in South Africa's history".^[6]

He worked at Robert Fleming & Co in South Africa as director of their Corporate Finance department.^{[citation needed]}

He then joined Warburg Dillon Read.^{[citation needed]}

He joined UBS in 1995 as Head of Corporate Finance in South Africa and moved to London in 1998 as Head of UK Investment Banking.^{[citation needed]} In 2004 Wilmot-Sitwell was appointed Joint Global Head of European Investment Banking and Joint Global Head of Investment Banking in November 2005.^{[citation needed]} Wilmot-Sitwell was on the senior management team of UBS at a time when multiple control and business model deficiencies occurred, leading the Tyrie Commission to label him (and other senior management figures) "ignorant and incompetent".^[7]

Politics

He donated £50,000 to the Conservative party for the 2015 election.^[8]