Alex Wilmot-Sitwell
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Early life
Wilmot-Sitwell was born in March 1961, the son of the banker Peter Wilmot-Sitwell and his wife Clare.[4]
Career
He started in South Africa on the board of the Tollgate Group, to which he was appointed "largely as a favour to [his] father",[5] then a senior partner at Tollgate's UK stockbroker Rowe and Pitman. Tollgate eventually failed in "one of the most torrid, unpleasant and seamy corporate chapters in South Africa's history".[6]
He worked at Robert Fleming & Co in South Africa as director of their Corporate Finance department.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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He joined UBS in 1995 as Head of Corporate Finance in South Africa and moved to London in 1998 as Head of UK Investment Banking.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 2004 Wilmot-Sitwell was appointed Joint Global Head of European Investment Banking and Joint Global Head of Investment Banking in November 2005.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Wilmot-Sitwell was on the senior management team of UBS at a time when multiple control and business model deficiencies occurred, leading the Tyrie Commission to label him (and other senior management figures) "ignorant and incompetent".[7]
Politics
He donated £50,000 to the Conservative party for the 2015 election.[8]
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