John Brantley Hooks, IV, is a team member in the Private Wealth Office of UBS Financial Services, Inc. Mr. Hooks has served as a consultant to Private Equity and Hedge Fund firms, and as an interim executive at several top-line turnarounds. Prior to that, he was an executive at Accenture, LLP, and Anderson Consulting, both Top 4 Management Consulting Firms where he held key positions in their Corporate Strategy and Corporate Venture organizations. Mr. Hooks also held several key financial executive positions at IBM spanning two decades.

Mr. Hooks holds a certificate in Private Equity and Corporate Governance from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and an MBA, Financial Management degree from the Lubin School of Business, Pace University, NY, NY. Mr. Hooks was a Doctoral Candidate at NYU and held concurrent appointments to the faculty of the University of Bridgeport and Pace University where he taught Doctoral, Graduate, and Undergraduate courses in Finance and Computer Science. He holds Series 7 Registered Representative and Series 65 Investment Advisor Representative licenses.

Mr. Hooks currently lives in New Canaan, CT and serves on the Board at Jane Doe No More, Inc.