Frances Fahey is the Chief of staff of UBS. She spent 12 years at UBS before leaving in 2016, and will now join the bank’s global markets management forum after more than three years at River and Mercantile Group (R&M) where she was Chief Operating Officer (COO). Fahey, who was an Executive Director and Investment Banking Division Team Leader in UBS Investment Bank between 2004 and 2005, boasts of a prolific career at UBS. Between 2004 and 2010, she was the Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets and the Head of European Emerging Markets Origination. She rose to become the Managing Director and COO of Global Corporate Client Solutions in June 2015. Frances Fahey attended the University of Birmingham.