With over 50 years experience in the financial and investment industry, Miguel a. Ferrer was, until July 2014, Chairman of UBS-Puerto Rico. In the early years of his career he worked for Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., Eastman Dillon Union Securities and Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co., Inc. and Paine Webber. In 1983 he became President of Paine Webber Incorporated of Puerto Rico making him the first Puerto Rican to direct a Paine Webber subsidiary. This company was later acquired by UBS with Ferrer as President and CEO, which included the new UBS Trust Company.

Over the past years he has been Publisher of the Caribbean Business, a business periodical, part of the LMH Group, a publishing enterprise and Chairman of Select Global Advisers Group.

Partner and Chairman of Iconic Caribbean EB-5, Mr. Ferrer has been one of the most important diriving forces of the investment industry in Puerto Rico while also making significant contributions to society through his involvement in various organizations. He was a member of the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico and Fiduciary to the Historical Foundation of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Through the years he has been Director of the Board of Advisors of the University of Puerto Rico, member of the Governing Board for the Strategy Project for Puerto Rico and member of the board in the Aqueduct and Sewers Authority of Puerto Rico, and of the Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública among others. Until recently, he served as member of la Comissión Conmemorativa del Cuadragésima Aniversario del fallecimiento del Maestro Pablo Casals and director of Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País, both non-profit institutions.

An avid art collector, Mr. Ferrer is a Cornell University alumnus where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 and a Masters in Business Administration in 1961. From 2001 to 2009 he was a member of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and remains a Trustee Emeritus. He is also the co-founder of the Committee for Scholarship Funds of the Cornell Alumni in Puerto Rico.