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49. Niels Zilkens
Company: UBS
Designation: Head Wealth Management—Middle East
Nationality: Swiss
Global Headquarters: Switzerland
Sector: Investment banking
Zielkins assumed his current role in October 2023, having joined the company in 2012. Since closing the acquisition of Credit Suisse in June 2023, UBS recorded $77 billion of net new assets in Global Wealth Management (GWM) and $77 billion of net new deposits across GWM and Personal & Corporate banking. Zielkins also oversees the Global Non-Resident Indian segment. He started his career as an economist at the Swiss National Bank.