Experience Makes all the difference

The UBS Institutional Consulting Group offers a full range of institutional consulting services within UBS, including Asset Allocation Modeling, Investment Policy Planning Assistance, Performance Measurement, and Identification of Manager and Investment Strategies. We offer hands-on guidance from an experienced, dedicated consulting team that leverages the vast resources and strong financial backing of a powerful global financial leader on your behalf. We provide a sophisticated, custom advisory service platform, disciplined manager search and advanced technological support, delivered by someone who knows you. With each of our clients, we hold ourselves to high standards of service. At the outset of our relationship, we will formally define and document our consulting role including the extent of our fiduciary responsibility with respect to our contracted services. Our services are designed to help support you in your fiduciary role.

Michael DiGrazia, CFP®, CIMA®

Institutional Consultant, UBS Institutional Consulting
Senior Retirement Plan Consultant
Portfolio Manager
602-957-5133

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Mike has navigated clients through wealth management in some of the most volatile market conditions in our nation's history, spanning portions of three decades. He utilizes this past experience, and the skills and credentials acquired throughout his career in real estate and finance to help institutional and private clients, trustees, and business owners manage their financial needs.

Mike has been a Director at UBS since 2009 and is a member of the Institutional Consulting Group at UBS. There are less than 100 advisors with the Institutional Consultant title at UBS and Mike's expertise allows our team to provide customized solutions that address your organization's unique needs and circumstances. He is a Certified Financial Planner™ certificant and holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst and Accredited Retirement Plan Consultant designations.

Prior to joining UBS, Mike was a co-owner of a real estate appraisal firm in Connecticut, and a Wealth Management Consultant with Merrill Lynch. He graduated from Bentley University in Waltham, MA and is a member of the Financial Planning Association and the Investment Management Consultants Association.

Mike is a member of Neighbors Helping Neighbors in Scottsdale, AZ and a Scottsdale Miss Softball coach as well as a past SMS board member. Mike is also a mentor for American Corporate Partners (ACP), which assists veterans in their career transition from the armed forces to the civilian workforce. He is past president of the Exchange Club of Norwalk, and the American Diabetes Association – Fairfield County Advisory Council and past board member of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA).

Mike and his wife, Lucy, and five daughters stay very active in the Southwest.


Registered States:
AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, KS, MA, MN, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, PA, SC, TX, WA, WI, WY


Thomas Tenney, CFA, CFP®

Account Vice President
Senior Retirement Plan Consultant
Portfolio Manager
Wealth Advisor
602-957-5152

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Tom has more than twenty years of financial services experience. Prior to joining UBS in 2007, he held portfolio manager and advisory roles at Mellon Private Asset Management and East Pacific Investment Company, Inc. He also traded options on the trading floors of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade from 1998 through 2006.

His focus is helping corporations and business owners create retirement and profit sharing plans for the benefit of their employees. He works closely with senior management and investment committees to select and monitor the investments offered in those plans. As one of UBS's Sr Retirement Plan Consultants, he is able to assist with Investment Policy Statements.

He earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1998, and in 2010 attained the CFP® designation of Certified Financial Planner™. In 1995, he was awarded an MBA in Finance from Hawaii Pacific University. He previously served as the President of the CFA Society Phoenix. He lives in Scottsdale, AZ with his wife, Mylene, and their four children.


Registered States:
AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, HI, ID, IL, MN, NJ, NM, NY, PA, SC, TX, UT, VA, WA


Kristen M. Freeman

Senior Client Service Associate
505-881-1700

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Registered States:
AZ, NM, TX


Kerstin M. Brown

Senior Registered Client Service Associate
602-957-5196

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Registered States:
AZ, CA, CO, GA, ID, MI, NY, OR, SD, TX, WA