Co-Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy, US

Head of Community Impact & Corporate Responsibility, UBS Americas

Jamie Sears is Managing Director, Co-Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy, US, and Head of Community Impact, UBS Americas, responsible for the corporate and client philanthropy business in the region. She joined UBS in 2012 and was the architect of the region’s corporate citizenship strategy. She led the creation of UBS Elevating Entrepreneurs, a portfolio of programs focused on advancing inclusive entrepreneurship and capital, including co-founding Project Entrepreneur. She also designed UBS NextGen Leaders, an initiative to increase college and career success for first-generation students.

Prior to UBS, Jamie held senior programmatic roles at Goldman Sachs Office of Corporate Engagement including launching the 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses initiatives. Her previous experience includes establishing the New York University Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship, and at Teach for America on the corps member selection and national development teams. She has a life-long commitment to advancing equity and has been on the ground floor of launching and growing multiple high-impact initiatives of over $1B in aggregate for leading cross-sector organizations.

Jamie has a Master of Public Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and Spanish from Penn State University. She is on the board of the National College Attainment Network, Conference Board Social Responsibility Council Executive Committee, and Social Innovation Summit Leadership Council. In her free time Jamie loves building her elementary school child’s library, startups, and testing new recipes.