Clinton Foundation And UBS Wealth Management Americas Celebrate Successful Conclusion Of Small Business Advisory Program Pilot In New York City Metro Area

The William J. Clinton Foundation and UBS Wealth Management Americas (UBS WMA) celebrated the conclusion of the New York City metropolitan area pilot of their CEO-UBS Small Business Advisory Program with a dinner recognizing the achievements of the participating small business owners. The successful six month program represents the fulfillment of a philanthropic partnership between the Foundation’s Clinton Economic Opportunity Initiative (CEO) and UBS WMA, announced at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America conference in June 2011.

“The CEO-UBS Small Business Advisory Program is the perfect example of how we can revitalize small business in America,” said President Bill Clinton. “Together, my Foundation and UBS worked with ten small businesses in New York to promote entrepreneurship and offer business-to-business mentoring. It is through successful programs like this that the Clinton Foundation has provided more than 75,000 hours of pro-bono consulting hours to small business owners.”

As part of UBS WMA’s Revitalizing America initiative, the six month Small Business Advisory Program brought leading UBS WMA financial advisors and their clients together to provide ten small businesses from communities including Harlem, Long Island City, Newark and Brooklyn, with:

• One-on-one pro-bono strategic financial and business counseling
• Access to the entire suite of UBS's resources, including senior leaders within the firm's marketing, human resources, operations and Investment Banking divisions
• Opportunities to network with industry influencers and major decision makers in both the private and public sectors.

“The Small Business Advisory Program represents UBS's commitment to helping entrepreneurs who display the best of the American spirit, and who will play an integral role in revitalizing our economy. I am particularly proud of the pilot program’s success as it highlighted our firm's dedication to small businesses, and underscores the passion our financial advisors bring to their jobs and their community each and every day,” said Robert J. McCann, Chief Executive Officer, UBS Group Americas.