Jerker Mats Johansson (born May 19, 1956) is a Swedish investment banker and was the chief executive officer of UBS Investment Bank and member of the Group Executive Board at

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between February 13, 2008, and April 27, 2009.

Biography

Johansson received a master's degree in economics from the

Stockholm School of Economics The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; , HHS) is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with PhD- and Executive education progr ...

in 1979 and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1986. During this time, he was part of

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's graduate training program and worked for

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. He later went to work at

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Europe and became a vice chairman and member of their management committee. Johansson joined

as a summer associate in 1985. From 2002 to 2005, Johansson was the global head of institutional equities at Morgan Stanley Europe. In August 2005, he was named co-head of combined sales and trading, consisting of the Institutional Equity Division and the Fixed Income Division. From April 2007, he was co-head of sales and trading with responsibility for clients and services,

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and solely responsible for sales and trading in capital markets. In February 2008, Johansson was appointed chairman and chief executive officer of

UBS Investment Bank UBS Group AG (stylized simply as UBS) is a multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland, with headquarters in both Zurich and Basel. It holds a strong foothold in all major fina ...

. He also serves as a member of the

group executive board. On 27 April 2009, Johansson resigned and was replaced by

Alex Wilmot-Sitwell Alex Wilmot-Sitwell is a partner at Perella Weinberg Partners in its London-based advisory practice. He had earlier headed BofA Securities, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's businesses across Europe and emerging markets excluding Asia, before resign ...

and Carsten Kengeter as Co-CEOs of the Investment Bank. UBS Chief Executive Oswald J. Grübel issued a statement thanking Johansson “for his great efforts and his valuable contribution to the repositioning of our investment bank.” Johansson co-founded Bluewater (previously Blue Water Energy) in 2011. As executive chairman, Johansson works alongside the other co-founding partners to drive the continued growth of the firm and the value creation across the funds Bluewater manage. Johansson's specific responsibilities include chairing the Investment Committee, Quarterly Portfolio Reviews and the Bluewater charitable giving committee. Johansson also maintains an active role across all elements of Bluewater including the deal team, finance team and the Marketing & IR team.

Activities

Johansson now serves on the boards of Influit, Stena International S.A., Stena Fastigheter and FAM AB – part of The Wallenberg Foundations – and is a trustee of The Morgan Library and Museum. Jerker is also a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

References

External links

List of UBS board members
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