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SEI hires LPL technology veteran to lead its next phase of growth. October 17, 2026 SEI has recruited Kristie Edling-Day, the former LPL Financial executive who oversaw technology supporting approximately 32,000 financial advisors, as its new chief information officer. The appointment puts a veteran of two of the industry's largest financial services platforms in charge of SEI's technology modernization, product strategy, cybersecurity governance, and artificial intelligence initiatives. Edling-Day will report directly to CEO Ryan Hicke, giving her responsibility for technology decisions that extend well beyond maintaining existing systems. At a company that manages, advises, or administers approximately $2.1 trillion in assets, the challenge is to translate increasingly sophisticated technology into a competitive advantage without compromising the reliability that institutional clients and wealth management firms depend on. The October 15 appointment brings more than 20 years of financial services technology experience to SEI at a time when platform providers face growing pressure to deliver integrated capabilities, improve operational efficiency, and accommodate rapidly evolving client expectations. Edling-Day most recently served as executive vice president and CIO for Advisor Technology and Enterprise Production Operations at LPL Financial. Her responsibilities included overseeing enterprise production operations, improving system reliability, and reducing operational risk across a technology environment supporting tens of thousands of advisors. She also helped define LPL's enterprise AI strategy and led its early implementation, giving her direct experience with the operational challenges of deploying emerging technology across a large financial services organization. Before LPL, Edling-Day spent 17 years at Vanguard, holding senior technology and product leadership positions that included CIO of Intermediary Technology and chief product and information officer for Financial Advisor Services. Her work encompassed major modernization initiatives and technology transformations supporting multitrillion-dollar businesses. That combination of experience is particularly relevant to SEI's ambitions. Vanguard's institutional scale and LPL's advisor-focused technology environment present different operating challenges, but both demand systems capable of supporting large volumes of transactions, complex workflows, and increasingly demanding users. Hicke framed the appointment around the relationship between technology investment and long-term growth. "The future of financial services will be shaped by firms that can connect technology, innovation, and expertise to help clients navigate an increasingly complex environment," he said. He identified responsible AI and data innovation as priorities for Edling-Day, alongside the company's broader technology and product strategy. The distinction matters because SEI's technology ambitions are not confined to artificial intelligence. Its new CIO will oversee a multiyear roadmap covering digital transformation, platform modernization, and cybersecurity governance, with investments expected to satisfy business objectives, client requirements, and regulatory expectations. Those responsibilities reflect the competing pressures facing established wealth technology providers. New capabilities can attract business and improve productivity, but they must coexist with legacy infrastructure, cybersecurity requirements, and the operational demands of financial institutions that cannot tolerate significant disruptions. Edling-Day's mandate also includes strengthening the company's product capabilities and data governance, areas that become more consequential as firms incorporate automation and AI into increasingly interconnected technology environments. SEI has already been expanding its AI leadership and infrastructure. Earlier this year, the company added chief AI strategist responsibilities to Sneha Shah's role and appointed executives focused on AI orchestration and enterprise data. Edling-Day's arrival places those broader ambitions within an executive technology organization responsible for translating strategy into operating capabilities. The appointment also reflects a larger competitive question in wealth management technology: whether established platforms can modernize quickly enough to satisfy firms seeking more flexible integrations and sophisticated capabilities without sacrificing the stability that made those platforms valuable in the first place. SEI's business spans financial technology, investment operations, and asset management, giving it exposure to a broad range of clients with different technology requirements. Its ability to coordinate those capabilities is an important part of its competitive position. Edling-Day acknowledged that balancing act in her statement announcing the appointment, identifying stronger technology platforms, product capabilities, and data governance as priorities for improving both operating speed and resilience. Her experience at LPL and Vanguard suggests SEI is looking for more than a technology executive familiar with the latest applications. It has chosen someone who has managed the operational consequences of technology decisions at substantial scale. For Hicke, the appointment concentrates responsibility for that execution in an executive who reports directly to him. For Edling-Day, the challenge is to turn SEI's existing infrastructure and technology investments into products and capabilities that can support the company's next stage of growth. The ambition is clear. Whether SEI can accelerate innovation while preserving the reliability of its established platforms will be the more consequential measure of her tenure.

People & company news, week of october 16, 2026. * Matt Barthel has joined MAI Capital Management as managing partner of Strategic Advisor Recruiting. Barthel will be responsible for driving business development initiatives to expand MAI's reach across the country. Additionally, Barthel will play a role in the firm's efforts to identify and onboard new advisor teams that share MAI's client-first culture. Barthel will report to managing partner Jim Kacic and work alongside the firm's Business Development team. Prior to joining MAI, Barthel recently served as an Editor at Barron's. * Gabriel Rodriguez has been tapped as CTO at Choreo. Rodriguez will leverage AI to expand advisor capacity and will strengthen Choreo's planning, reporting, and client engagement tools. He will report to CEO Jason Van de Loo and will join the firm's executive leadership team and be based in the firm's office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before joining Choreo, Rodriguez most recently served as SVP of Technology at LPL Financial. * Matthew Humphrey has been named a divisional president of the integrated advisor channel at Carson Group. Humphrey will lead Carson Wealth's W-2 advisor channel and will be a member of Carson's executive leadership team. Prior to joining Carson, he most recently served as EVP and head of Wealth & Investment Management at United Bank and CEO of United Brokerage Services. * Rupal Shah has been tapped as head of Insurance Solutions at New York Life Investment Management. In this newly created role, Shah will lead NYLIM's strategy to offer its insurance-specific portfolio expertise, balance-sheet perspective, and broad investment capabilities. Shah will report to Matthew Mosca, head of NYLIM's Institutional Client Group. Prior to joining NYLIM, Shah most recently served as managing director and global head of Insurance Solutions, at Silver Point Capital, where she led the firm's global insurance solutions platform. * John Farren has joined Prospera Financial Services and is based in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Farren is the managing director of Farren Private Wealth and brings more than three decades of industry experience to Prospera Financial. * Greg Hiatrides has been appointed CEO of Denver-based Bow River Capital, an alternative asset manager. Hiatrides, most recently served as head of Bow River's Private Equity team and succeeds Blair Richardson, who will transition to the role as chairman. * Max Sherman and Jasper Sneff Nanni have been appointed partners, and Evey Guo has been appointed managing principal at FS Vector, a consulting and regulatory technology platform. As a partner, Sherman will continue supporting fintechs and banks and expanding FS Vector's presence on the West Coast. Sneff Nanni will continue to lead FS Vector's advising banks, trust companies, and fintechs. Guo will work alongside Sneff Nanni to advise clients in the chartering space. * Chris Hansen has been appointed as CIO and partner at Canyon Partners, an alternative investment manager. Hansen will oversee the firm's technology strategy and infrastructure, including information technology, business technology, engineering, data architecture, and the integration of artificial intelligence and alternative data across Canyon's investment platform. Prior to joining Canyon Partners, Hansen most recently served as managing director and head of Product and Application Development at TPG Angelo Gordon. * Managing directors Conway Dodge, Michael Sullivan, and Richard Patterson have joined BRG's Financial Institution Advisory practice. The managing directors are part of BRG's Markets Compliance group, serving broker-dealers, investment advisers, swap dealers and other entities primarily regulated by the SEC and are based in Washington, D.C. Before joining BRG, Dodge spent nearly a decade at SEC's Division of Enforcement, Sullivan most recently served as a partner at KPMG and Patterson served as a former investigator at FINRA. * Peter Nicolas has been appointed SVP of the New England region at ExchangeRight. Nicolas has joined its growing Distribution team and will serve representatives, advisors, and their clients in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and upstate New York. Prior to joining ExchangeRight, Nicolas served as VP of Virginia-based Bonaventure Real Estate. * Bloomberg has rolled out its ASKB function on the Bloomberg Terminal to financial professionals. Through ASKB, clients will be able to access additional capabilities beyond their Instant Bloomberg chats, including specialized worksheets and portfolio and risk management assistance. The function now supports data analytics and can be found on the Bloomberg Terminal at ASB <GO>. * RIA Savant Wealth Management has launched Wife2CFO, an online program designed to help women navigate the financial implications of divorce. The program was created by managing director Michelle Smith in Savant's New York City office. The program integrates self-paced education with live check-ins with Smith and other Savant financial advisors to help participants engage in financial conversations during and after the divorce process. The course covers various topics including financial planning, wealth management, investing, behavioral finance, risk management, and post-divorce financial decision-making. The course is available through Savant Academy for $2,000. * SEI has partnered with the Intercontinental Exchange to integrate the company's ICE ETF Hub, to support the creation and redemption process for Exchange-Traded Products issuers and enhance the scalability of SEI's ETP order management capabilities. The platform is designed to simplify the creation process across ETPs of numerous asset classes. * RBC Wealth Management has added a father-son advisory team in Oregon. The team was previously affiliated with UBS, where they managed $250M in total client assets. The Mork Wealth Management Group is led by advisors Bob Mork and Andrew Mork and offers investment management and wealth management services for high-net-worth clients and multigenerational families. The team is supported by investment associate Ryan Wilkinson. * Loop Capital, an investment bank, brokerage and advisory firm has acquired the assets from Lifeline Holdings's wealth management and family office businesses. The transaction expands Loop's wealth and family office platform and enhances the firm's strategy of serving athletes, entertainers, entrepreneurs, executives and families. Chicago-based Loop Capital, founded in 1997, manages $12B in assets under management, including Loop's partnership interest in JLC Infrastructure. * FinTurk, a CRM platform, has partnered with Fiduciary Check, to enable Fiduciary Check's members to gain access to FinTurk's CRM and automation capabilities at a reduced cost. FinTurk's native AI assistant, Finn, works within the CRM to help advisors prepare for client meetings and manage daily tasks. The platform also supports client and household management, workflow and task automation, portfolio and cash management, along with email and calendar integrations. * Crossover Markets, an operator of CROSSx, has partnered with Moomoo, an investment and trading platform, to bolster Moomoo's digital asset offering for U.S. investors through the integration of CROSSx. Through the partnership, Moomoo will connect its trading interface to CROSSx's routing technology. The partnership also expands the reach of CROSSx into a new distribution channel as demand for digital asset execution continues to grow. * Securitize, a tokenized assets platform, has launched Securitize Stocks. The initial offering on Securitize will include security entitlements to shares of AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOG, TSLA, META, AMZN, NFLX, CRCL, SPCX, MSTR and PLTR. Securitize Stocks will initially launch on Solana and trade on Securitize's registered broker-dealer platform. Securitize stocks are also expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange. * Scottsdale, AZ-based Elevest Capital, a real estate private equity firm, has launched MADE, a private division built for musicians, professional athletes, that seek long-term ownership. MADE offers a personalized strategy, private investment opportunities, and long-term equity growth and potential passive income through professionally managed real assets. * Godspeed Capital Management, a lower middle-market private equity firm, has acquired GreenVest, an environmental consulting services provider. Through the acquisition, Godspeed aims to accelerate organic growth, invest in talent, and pursue strategic acquisitions. Additionally, GreenVest's SVP Brett Berkley has been appointed CEO of the platform. * Captona, an energy investment firm, has made its latest preferred equity investment in partnership with Nexamp, a distributed generation and community solar company. The undisclosed investment supports the financing of 55MW of solar generation and 5MWh of battery storage capacity across 10 projects in New York, Illinois, Maine, and Massachusetts. The post people & company news, week of october 16, 2026 appeared first on connect money.