Fourteen years inside the machine. Now helping fix it.
Most financial institutions don’t have an AI problem. They have an operating model problem that AI makes faster. Teams automate processes nobody fixed, then spend the savings cleaning up. Optivance starts with what your customers and regulators need, fixes the operating model to deliver it, then puts AI where it pays.
The background behind the work.
14 years at UBS, the last six running the investment bank’s chief operating office, accountable for new products, regulatory deadlines and integrations, front to back. Before that, I built and led internal consulting teams at UBS and Guardian Life, after IBM Consulting and Accenture. At IBM I helped develop the component business modelling method, which I've since rebuilt for AI. Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Based in Geneva, working across Europe, the UK and the US.
Julian Ybarra
Founder, Optivance Advisory