Stewardship for generations

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Capabilities, Experience, and Focus

We understand the importance of preserving all you've achieved and the legacy you hope to leave. Accessing the full depth and breadth of UBS platforms and expertise, we advise multi-generational families, family offices, and family foundations on complex wealth challenges and bespoke solutions.

For information related specifically to foundations is on the Foundations Investment Group site

Delivering opportunity through collaboration

UBS Private Wealth Management
Specialized centers of excellence provide you and your family with the expertise that is most relevant to your wealth and goals. Their insights focus on broad themes and trends as well as successful tactical ideas and strategies.

Delivering opportunity through collaboration

Family Office Solutions

Family Office Solutions

Advanced planning

Advanced planning

Advanced planning

Tailored lending

Tailored lending

Customized advice with a multigenerational approach exclusively for centimillionaire and billionaire clients who require bespoke and holistic advisory solutions. Their original thought leadership provides keen insight borne from countless conversations with prominent families.

Advanced planning

We understand that planning is an integral part of a well thought out financial roadmap. We can help guide you through the process, working with you to craft a plan that aligns with your priorities and challenges, while allowing to you to take advantage of unexpected opportunities and life changes.

As part of the planning process, we can also draw on network of professionals, as well as the highly specialized resources of UBS’s Advanced Planning Group.

Our experienced banking and credit teams offer potential solutions for a range of liquidity and capital funding needs. Expect bespoke strategies for concentrated and restricted stock loan strategies, unsecured loans, REIT operating units, hedge-fund backed loans and more.

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Portfolio Advisory Group

Portfolio Advisory Group

Access to Investment banking

Access to Investment banking

Global Family Office

Global Family Office

Specialists intensely focused on constructing customized investment portfolios to help address your specific needs. The team’s hallmarks include sophisticated quantitative analysis, research-driven asset allocation and tailored portfolio construction advice.

UBS’s dedicated investment banking professionals can help with a range of corporate, institutional and wealth management needs. We can facilitate access to their global capital markets and connect you to their expert advice, well-crafted execution strategies and innovative solutions.


Institutional investment banking services are provided by UBS Securities LLC, a subsidiary of UBS Group AG. Member FINRA/SIPC.

A unique joint venture between UBS Investment Bank and Wealth Management USA, the Global Family Office acts as a resource for institutional family offices, providing priority access to product specialists, intellectual capital and events across the globe.

Recognized as an industry leader

Group Leadership

  • Eric Gioia

    Eric Gioia

    Managing Director–Wealth Management

    Financial Advisor

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    Eric joined UBS as a Managing Director – Wealth Management, having most recently served as a Managing Director and Senior Banker at J.P. Morgan Chase. At UBS, Eric will continue to advise CEOs, founders, and ultra high net worth families and organizations in New York, just as he has since 2010. Eric and his team are responsible for all aspects of the client relationship, including strategic advice, investments, banking, risk management and succession planning strategies.

    Before becoming an important member of the NYC business community, Eric was elected to serve in the New York City Council, representing Queens from 2002-2009. As a Councilman, he chaired the Committee on Oversight & Investigations, conducting more than 50 inquiries that helped the passage of important laws and increasing government accountability. Prior to his service as a Councilman, Eric served in the White House as a law clerk to the Deputy White House Counsel and practiced law at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

    Apart from UBS, Eric is an adjunct professor at the NYU College of Arts and Sciences and CUNY’s Macauley Honors College. For ten years, he has taught seminars on public policy and the future of New York. He previously served on the boards of MoMA PSI, the Museum of the Moving Image and Chess in the Schools. Now, he serves as a trustee of the Marymount School of NY and on the board of the Queens Library Foundation.

    Eric is a graduate of NYU and Georgetown University Law Center. He lives with his wife, Lisa Hernandez Gioia, and their four children in New York City. Eric is an avid marathoner and has embarked on a quest to run a marathon on all seven continents.

    • Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in January, based on information from a 12 month period ending March of the prior year.

        1285 Avenue Of The Americas
        New York, NY 10019
        eric.gioia@ubs.com
        Eric Gioia
        1285 Avenue Of The Americas,New York,NY,10019
      • Orly Elliot

        Orly Elliott

        Senior Vice President–Wealth Management

        Financial Advisor

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        Orly is a Senior Vice President at UBS Wealth Management and has served her clients as a private banker since 2010. She takes pride in forming close relationships with her clients, enabling her to develop a deep understanding of their financial needs and desires. This allows her to work with her clients in order to develop a strategy for the present as well as the future.

        Orly advises business owners and entrepreneurs, corporate executives, families, endowments and philanthropic organizations. She utilizes her relationships and experience to counsel clients on customized investment portfolios, credit and liquidity needs, trust and estate
        planning, and cash management solutions.

        Orly holds a bachelor’s of business administration degree from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, her Series 7, 63 and 66 licenses, as well as life and health insurance licenses. Prior to joining UBS, Orly spent more than a decade as an advisor in JPMorgan’s Private Bank. An active member of her community, Orly and her husband, Justin, live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with their sons, Adam and Aaron.

        • Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in January, based on information from a 12 month period ending March of the prior year.
        • Forbes Top Next-Gen (Generation) Wealth Advisors Best-in-State, 2025The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in August based on information from a 12 month period ending in March of the award year.
        • Forbes Top Women Wealth Advisors Best-in-State, 2026The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in February based on information from a 12 month period ending September of the prior year.

            1285 Avenue Of The Americas
            New York, NY 10019
            orly.elliott@ubs.com
            Orly Elliott
            1285 Avenue Of The Americas,New York,NY,10019
          • Allen Zaring

            Allen Zaring IV

            Managing Director–Wealth Management

            Private Wealth Advisor

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            When it comes to managing the exceptional wealth of prominent family offices, Allen can speak from personal experience. He helped form a family office and family foundation with his own family after the sale of their business and then worked with one of the world’s largest family offices in Europe. Throughout his 20-year career, Allen has worked with individual and institutional investors globally and participated in all facets of financial services, including transactional planning, investment and risk management, legal and operations.

            Today, as a Private Wealth Advisor and founding partner of his UBS Private Wealth Management team, Families & Foundations Investment Group, Allen brings invaluable perspective and empathy to the team’s relationships with multigenerational families. He continues to help form and advise family offices and foundations large and small. Allen and his team also advise successful ultra high net worth investors and private business owners in pre- and post-transaction planning, asset management, next-generation investment education and the financing of philanthropic initiatives. In addition, he provides investment management services for private and family foundations and nonprofit organizations.

            • Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams, 2026The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in January, based on information from a 12 month period ending March of the prior year.

            • Babson College, B.S., finance and entrepreneurship
            • Private Wealth Advisor
            1285 Avenue of the Americas
            New York, NY 10019
            allen.zaring@ubs.com
            Allen Zaring IV
            1285 Avenue of the Americas,New York,NY,10019
          • Timothy Bayer

            Timothy Bayer Jr.

            Senior Vice President–Wealth Management

            Private Wealth Advisor

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            Tim is a founding member of the Families & Foundations Investment Group, a UBS Private Wealth Management team which advises successful private business owners in pre- and post-transaction planning, family office formation and asset management, next-generation investment education and the financing of philanthropic initiatives. The team also provides asset management services for private and family foundations, professional athletes and nonprofit organizations. In working with this distinct level of global wealth, Tim advises on personal balance sheets and complex investment portfolios. He is skilled in managing deferred compensation plans, concentrated stock positions, SEC Rule 10b5-1 sales, charitable giving and wealth transfer strategies. Tim maintains firsthand trading experience across global asset classes on exchange-listed markets, OTC markets, derivatives and Dodd-Frank regulated markets.

            • Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams, 2026The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in January, based on information from a 12 month period ending March of the prior year.

            • Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, B.S. finance
            • University of Cincinnati Linder School of Business, M.B.A
            • Private Wealth Advisor
            • Portfolio Manager
            • Institutional Consultant, UBS Institutional Consulting Program
            8044 Montgomery Road
            The Towers At Kenwood
            Cincinnati, OH 45236
            timothy.bayer@ubs.com
            Timothy Bayer Jr.
            8044 Montgomery Road,Cincinnati,OH,45236
          • Eric Kessler

            Eric Kessler, CFP

            Authorized Officer

            Senior Wealth Strategy Associate

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            Eric started his career with UBS in 2019 through various internships. Eric spent half a decade within the UBS Wealth Advice Center where he delivered wholistic financial planning and bespoke financial advice to numerous individuals and businesses. Eric holds his Series 7, 66, 9, and 10 licenses as well as life and health insurance licenses. Eric has accomplished becoming a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and undergone rigorous trainings across a broad array of financial themes.

             While a native New Yorker, Eric holds a B.S. from Centre College in Kentucky with a dual concentration in Economics and Finances as well as International Studies. Eric is a zealous sports fan and enjoys rooting for an underdog. In his free time, he enjoys playing golf, traveling, giving back in the community and staying active.

                  1285 Avenue Of The Americas
                  New York, NY 10019
                  eric.kessler@ubs.com
                  Eric Kessler, CFP
                  1285 Avenue Of The Americas,New York,NY,10019
                • Ben Color

                  Benjamin Pieper

                  Wealth Strategy Associate

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                  Benjamin joins the Families & Foundations Investment Group as a recent graduate from Xavier University’s Williams College of Business where he studied Finance & Accounting. During his senior year, he was the CEO of Xavier’s student led equity investment fund which manages over 6 million dollars of the school's endowment. Benjamin’s undergraduate investment curriculum and wealth management internships provide him with unique qualities that facilitate an enhanced client experience. He is a native of Northern Kentucky and current lives in Ft. Mitchell.

                        8044 Montgomery Road
                        The Towers At Kenwood
                        Cincinnati, OH 45236
                        benjamin.pieper@ubs.com
                        Benjamin Pieper
                        8044 Montgomery Road,Cincinnati,OH,45236
                      • Thomas

                        Thomas Hunley

                        Registered Client Associate

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                        Thomas is a registered associate with UBS on the Families & Foundations Investment Group, where his focus is to deliver exceptional service in any way he can and ensure liquidity is always available for our clients. 

                        Thomas started his career with UBS in 2024 as an equity trader within the Workplace Wealth Solutions division. Thomas holds his Series 7, 66, 79, and is currently pursuing additional licenses and certifications. Thomas attended the University of Mississippi where he obtained a B.S. in business.

                        Thomas is an avid sports fan and enjoys rooting for the New Orleans Saints, Braves, and University of Mississippi football team. In his free time, he enjoys playing golf, watching sports, traveling, and giving back to the community.

                              1285 Avenue Of The Americas
                              New York, NY 10019
                              thomas.hunley@ubs.com
                              Thomas Hunley
                              1285 Avenue Of The Americas,New York,NY,10019
                            • Ann Bjerke

                              Managing Director

                              Head of Advanced Planning

                            • Sarah J. Salomon , CAP®

                              Managing Director

                              Head – Family Advisory and Philanthropy

                            • Jennifer Miara

                              Jennifer Miara

                              Executive Director

                              Ultra High Net Worth Lending Specialist, Lending Origination

                            • Titus Song

                              Executive Director

                              Alternative Investments Consultant

                            • Matthew Morris, CFA

                              Managing Director

                              Head, Portfolio Advisory Group Midwest, New York and Northeast Division

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