Mark Watkins, a veteran investment banking professional, has over a decade of experience in Debt Capital Markets. He boasts expertise in advising investment-grade and high-yield financial institution issuers in the United States, EMEA, and Asia, in the U.S. dollar, Euro, Pound Sterling, Swiss Franc, Australian dollar, and Canadian dollar. Mark has worked as a senior Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank in New York City, where he focused on U.S. regional deposit-taking banks and select asset managers/hedge funds. His strengths include analytical reasoning, teamwork, and leadership skills. As a seasoned investment banker, Mark has managed more than 225 transactions covering over $450 billion of senior unsecured, subordinated, and preferred stock securities across the primary market origination and liability management exercises.

Mark studied Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Political Science, and ‘Law, Letters, and Society’ at The University of Chicago. Mark's longest tenure was nine years in London, where he served as Head of EMEA Liability Management Group at UBS Investment Bank. He won many of the industry's 'best in class' awards and led an array of groundbreaking transactions while partnering closely with Europe's preeminent financial institutions coverage team. Before assuming his senior-level positions, Mark worked as an Associate Director and an Analyst at UBS Investment Bank's Liability Management Group within Debt Capital Markets.