John O'Connell was recently quoted in Wealth Solutions Report on why integrating advisory tech stacks hasn't solved firms' data problems. According to John, integration moves data between systems, but it doesn't create intelligence across them. Tools like Zapier sync fields, not behavioral context. Take CRMs and email platforms. They were never designed to work...
John O'Connell authored this article in Advisor Perspectives by VettaFi where he discusses the dangers of unregulated use of shadow AI that could already be affecting your firm. The real question is not whether shadow AI exists inside your walls. It is whether you will take control of it before regulators and cybercriminals do.
John O'Connell authored this article for Advisor Perspectives by VettaFi, covering how smaller firms can achieve meaningful, defensible data lineage using tools they already own — if they understand what lineage actually means in practice.
While your compliance team debates whether to allow the latest LLMs, most of your advisors are already using it on their personal phones. They are entering client data, portfolio ideas, and internal research into systems your firm has never reviewed. How will you take control of it before regulators and cybercriminals do?
Data lineage isn't about expensive technology. It's about answering three straightforward questions about AI-generated content: What data went into this output? Who used it, and when? Where is the record stored? If you can answer those questions reliably, you have functional lineage. Everything else is infrastructure theater.
John O’Connell, Mark Gilbert of Zocks, Stacie Craddock of Integrated Compliance Advisors, and Jason Gross of Colorado’s Division of Securities for this webinar replay on best practices for implementing AI tools while staying compliant.
John O’Connell authored this article in ThinkAdvisor, where he delivers a critical message for the wealth management community: the recent Salesforce data breach, affecting up to one billion records, exposes the growing fragility of data security across the financial services ecosystem.
John O'Connell will be leading a panel on AI and data, as well as a CTO Think Tank, at the 2025 Wealth Management EDGE conference in Boca Raton, Florida, June 10-12, 2025.
In this insightful webinar replay featuring John O'Connell and Henry Zelikovsky of Softlab360, discover how forward-thinking wealth management firms are preparing for machine learning today.
John O'Connell was featured in Financial Planning Magazine in an article about why and how wealth management firms should own their data. The article also highlights a recent webinar that The Oasis Group held with ByAllAccounts, part of Morningstar Wealth.
