Jolyne is a Divisional Vice Chairman at UBS in the firm’s Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) division within the Global Wealth Management business. Jolyne joined UBS in July 2019.
Jolyne’s area of focus is the UHNW business with a specific mandate to support the strategic growth objectives in the Americas UHNW segment. With a long track record of working with some of the world’s wealthiest families across multiple generations, she significantly bolsters the division’s efforts to deepen and develop new and existing UHNW client relationships.
Jolyne’s career has spanned global capital markets and asset management businesses at major Wall Street firms. Prior to joining UBS, she was Founder and CEO of The Alberleen Group, a boutique investment firm that works exclusively with family office investors to source and structure private debt and equity direct investments.
She previously worked as Global Head of Absolute Return Strategies at Lehman Brothers and served on the firm’s Management Committee. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Ms. Caruso was Co-founder and President of Andor Capital Management, a $7.0 billion equity hedge fund. From 1992 to 2001, she was Managing Director and Head of Equities Americas at JP Morgan Chase and was Chairman of JP Morgan Securities. She began her career in institutional equities at Bear Stearns.
Ms. Caruso holds a B.A. with Honors from Barnard College, Columbia University, and is Chair Emerita of Barnard’s Board of Trustees. She currently serves on the boards of Align Impact, LLC, the Institute of International Education- IIE, and is on the advisory council at Columbia Entrepreneurship as well as an advisor to Golden Seeds Fund 1.
Jolyne is married to Shawn FitzGerald and together they have two children, Christian and Gabrielle FitzGerald.