Gautam Anne joins Kaufman Rossin as Chief Information Officer. Kaufman Rossin, the largest independent CPA and advisory firm in Florida and one of the top 50 firms in the U.S., announced today the addition of Gautam Anne (link bio) as Chief Information Officer (CIO). Anne brings more than 20 years of experience spanning engineering through C-suite leadership, with expertise in enterprise transformation, post-merger integration, AI-enabled modernization, and cybersecurity. He has worked across the banking, investments, healthcare, technology, manufacturing & distribution, and private equity industries, in both public and high-growth environments. In his new role, Anne will oversee Kaufman Rossin's technology strategy, driving innovation and operational resilience across the firm. "Gautam's track record of leading large-scale technology transformations makes him an ideal fit as we continue to scale our operations and invest in the platforms that support our clients and our people," said Richard Salinas, Chief Operating Officer of Kaufman Rossin. "His experience aligning technology strategy with business growth will be a real asset as we strengthen our infrastructure and position the firm for what's next." Before joining Kaufman Rossin, Anne served as CIO for a large, acquisition-driven organization, leading technology integration across more than 20 acquisitions and divestitures. He modernized the IT landscape, delivering major cost savings, a stronger cybersecurity posture, and improved operational efficiency and platform interoperability, all while partnering with the board and investors on value-creation strategy. Earlier in his career, he held senior technology leadership roles across healthcare, financial services, and professional services, leading enterprise CRM modernization, data governance, M&A integration, and large-scale platform transformation programs. Anne's expertise spans AI strategy, automation, cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure modernization, CRM, ERP, and data platform consolidation. He is known for building and scaling high-performing global technology organizations, having led teams of more than 450 professionals across the U.S., Latin America, and India. He earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Bridgeport, completed the International Senior Management Program at HEC Paris, and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Chennai as well as receiving AI certifications from Duke University Gautam Anne Information Technology Chief Information Officer at Kaufman Rossin, one of the Top 50 CPA and advisory firms in the U.S.

Bretton AI partners with Kaufman Rossin to bring agentic compliance to financial institutions. June 9, 2026 Kaufman Rossin's financial crime and risk advisory practice is now delivering Bretton AI to its clients, combining decades of regulatory expertise with AI-native operations to change how compliance work gets done. The financial crime problem is not getting any simpler. Transaction volumes are rising, regulatory expectations are tightening, and the investigative techniques underpinning most compliance programs were built for a world that no longer exists. Raymond Villanueva has watched this gap widen across a thirty-year career, first as a federal law enforcement official investigating money laundering, now as Head of Investigations at Kaufman Rossin. His read on the industry is plain: "Transactions are happening with the click of a button, but sometimes we're still using the same 1980s techniques." That is the problem this partnership is built to solve. Kaufman Rossin is one of the most respected risk advisory practices in the country, with deep experience helping financial institutions manage compliance, regulatory, and operational risk. Bretton AI runs financial back-office operations, including AML reviews, transaction monitoring, enhanced due diligence - with every decision traced, documented, and defensible. Together, Kaufman Rossin is now delivering Bretton AI to its clients as part of its compliance and risk advisory practice. A partnership built on selectivity. Configuring, calibrating, and overseeing AI in a regulated environment takes people who understand what good looks like in the context of real compliance programs under real regulatory scrutiny. As Will Lawrence, CEO of Bretton AI, explained: "The promise of agentic AI really requires experts to bring it to market." What Kaufman Rossin found in Bretton was technology that met their standard. What Bretton found in Kaufman Rossin was the kind of institutional expertise that makes the technology perform. What changes for analysts. The operational shift this partnership delivers is palpable. Compliance analysts spend a significant portion of their time on work that should not require their judgment: gathering information, reconciling data from separate sources, building case narratives from scratch. That is time that cannot go toward the escalations and high-risk decisions where their expertise actually matters. Bretton AI changes that equation. Investigative findings flow directly into active cases rather than being assembled manually. Every review follows the institution's own procedures, consistently, regardless of volume. Every output is structured, traceable, and aligned to OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve standards from day one. Villanueva, speaking from three decades of investigative experience, framed the value directly: "I bring my expertise, you bring the technology and it's a match made in heaven." For institutions working with Kaufman Rossin, the results are measurable. Analysts used to spend 4-6 hours on transaction monitoring triage. With Bretton, they now spend less than an hour on the same task. Built to hold up to regulators. Quality is not incidental to this partnership. It is the standard Kaufman Rossin has always held itself to, and the standard Bretton AI is built around. Villanueva was clear on what that means in practice: "We're not going to do the work twice or three times. We're going to do it once. We're going to do it right. And regulators appreciate our work." That posture is encoded in how Bretton AI operates. Every output is built on Bretton's Trust Infrastructure, which provides model risk management, continuous AI evaluation, and rigorous QA testing. Institutions operating under OCC, FDIC, or Federal Reserve oversight cannot afford decisions that are not explainable and audit-ready. Bretton agents are built to that standard from the start. A model for how advisory firms grow with AI. Advisory practices face a genuine challenge with AI adoption. The firms best positioned to guide clients through it can tend toward more a more conservative outlook. Because their differentiation is judgment, not tooling, they are appropriately cautious about what they put in front of clients and regulators alike. Kaufman Rossin's approach with Bretton AI offers a different path. As CEO of Bretton AI, Will Lawrence put it, partnering with firms that bring deep expertise to the relationship is what makes the technology land: "You bring your deep expertise on the industry, partnered with our best-in-class technology to change how banks operate." For advisory firms looking to grow their compliance practice, this is a model worth examining. Bretton AI is actively partnering with firms that have the expertise, the client relationships, and the operational presence to deliver agentic compliance at scale. The firms that move first will be the ones that introduce their clients to what modern compliance operations actually look like. Building what comes next. The compliance burden on financial institutions is not going away. But the way it gets managed is changing. Institutions that adopt AI-native operations now will not just be more efficient but they will be better positioned to serve more customers, enter new markets, and grow without the back-office overhead that has historically capped their ambition. Kaufman Rossin and Bretton AI share a belief that this shift happens when deep expertise and purpose-built technology work together. That is what this partnership is built to deliver.