John Burke
Assistant General Counsel, Corporate Vice President
UBS Financial Services, Inc.

John Burke is a managing director at UBS AG. He is currently the global head of outside counsel management responsible for the procurement and oversight of externally provided legal and advisory services.

Prior, he was global head of IT, Contracting and Shared Services Legal, a global shared services legal team within UBS that provides primary legal support across several practice areas, namely Information Technology; E-Commerce & New Media; Contracting; Intellectual Property; Offshoring & Outsourcing; Data Management & Protection; and Corporate Real Estate & Administrative Services. Earlier in his career, Mr. Burke held the position of UBS Group Head of IT Risk Control based in Zurich, Switzerland. In that role, he was responsible for the firm's global IT risk policies and standards, IT operational risk framework, investigations and IT risk assessment process. Before that, he served as the chief information security officer of UBS Wealth Management USA. He began his in-house legal career with UBS, focusing on technology and intellectual property. Prior to that, he was an associate at Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP in New Jersey.

He received his BS from Manhattan College and his JD from Rutgers University School of Law.