Available: Enterprise GTM, Sales, and Strategy In One Sentence: Enterprise GTM and commercial executive with 20+ years helping highly regulated financial institutions adopt enterprise software, AI, cloud and digital transformation technology with leadership roles at BlackRock, SS&C Technologies, Coforge and FA Solutions. Role Desired: Enterprise Account Executive, Strategic Accounts, VP/Head of Sales, GTM/Commercial Leadership roles within WealthTech, Enterprise Software, AI or Front-to-Back Investment Management Technology. Open to permanent, contract and interim opportunities. Most Recent Positions: Senior Sales Director, FA Solutions (Dec 2025 – Jul 2026). Concurrently Co-Founder & CEO, SarvFlow (Aug 2025 – present). Years of Experience: 20+ years (career began June 2006 at Jupiter Asset Management) Geography: London area, United Kingdom. In-office, hybrid or remote. Name: Ali Homayouni LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alihomayouni/ Contact Info: Upon Request, Available immediately. __________________________________________________________________________________ Work Experience: Co-Founder & CEO, SarvFlow (Aug 2025 – present, London, hybrid) — building an AI-powered financial intelligence platform applying behavioural economics to improve everyday financial decision-making. Senior Sales Director, FA Solutions (Dec 2025 – Jul 2026, London) — Led UK market expansion for a cloud-native investment management platform unifying PMS, OMS, onboarding, risk analytics, CRM/portals and regulatory compliance for asset and wealth managers, fund administrators, family offices and pension funds. Vice President of Sales, Coforge (Mar 2024 – Oct 2025, London) — Commercial leadership at a global digital services and IT solutions firm, selling cloud, data, integration and automation-led transformation into banking and financial services clients. Sales Director, SS&C Technologies (Jun 2021 – Mar 2024, London) — Led strategic business development across EMEA for SS&C's institutional and investment management solutions and professional services, spanning outsourcing, enterprise SaaS and consulting across front-to-back-office operations. Executive Director, Maddox Retail – Global Retail Advisors (May 2015 – May 2021, New York). Also Head of Partnerships, advisory only, at Animal Concerts (Apr 2021 – Apr 2022). BlackRock (Aug 2007 – May 2015, 7 yrs 10 mos) — Vice President, Latin America and Iberia (2013–2015, New York); Vice President, Global Retail/iShares (2010–2013, New York); Associate, International Retail (2007–2010, London). Sales and Marketing Analyst, Jupiter Asset Management (Jun 2006 – Aug 2007, London). __________________________________________________________________________________ Education and Certifications: ● Investment Management Certificate (IMC) ● PgDL/LLB, BPP Law School ● BSc (Hons) Pharmacology, King's College London __________________________________________________________________________________ Items of Note: Areas of expertise: Enterprise AI and automation; enterprise software and SaaS; investment management platforms; cloud and digital transformation; strategic partnerships; executive GTM strategy; asset and wealth management. Founder alongside an executive career: Co-Founder and CEO of SarvFlow, a behavioural AI platform focused on improving financial wellbeing through lifestyle-aware intelligence. International coverage: Has carried commercial responsibility across EMEA, Latin America and Iberia, and global retail/iShares distribution, based variously in London and New York. Positioning: Works at the intersection of technology, commercial strategy and customer outcomes, translating complex technology into measurable business value for enterprise organisations. LinkedIn headline: “Enterprise GTM Leader | AI Platforms | Enterprise SaaS | Asset & Wealth Management”, United Kingdom. Knote: This is a new initiative for us, so please give us feedback, particularly critical feedback. It's a free service. We are just trying to be good WealthTech citizens and job hunting/recruiting is a pain point when the knowledge is so specialized.

Arbex, P. (2026, August 4). Ex-Nubank levanta 'seed' histórico: Decade vai gerir finanças pessoais com AI [Ex-Nubank raises historic seed: Decade will manage personal finances with AI]. Brazil Journal. https://braziljournal.com/ex-nubank-levanta-seed-historico-decade-vai-gerir-financas-pessoais-com-ai/ Decade, a fintech founded by former Nubank CTO Vitor Olivier, raised $85 million in what the article identifies as Latin America's largest seed round. The round totaled approximately 440 million Brazilian reais and drew American venture firms Benchmark, Diffusion, and Greenoaks alongside Brazilian investors Atlantico and Norte Ventures. Olivier spent nearly 12 years at Nubank before departing in August 2024 and co-founded Decade with Felipe Meneses, creator of the AI credit startup Hyperplane that Nubank acquired in 2024. The company emerged from stealth mode in September 2025 and targets personal finance management for Brazilians through artificial intelligence. The platform consolidates user finances through Open Finance integration or PDF uploads and analyzes portfolio concentration, asset quality, tax inefficiencies, and spending patterns. The product pairs AI-powered chat for portfolio simulations and cost planning with human consultants accessible via WhatsApp. Decade charges 200 reais (about $39) monthly for its subscription and also offers a premium fee-based service for wealthier clients, in a market where Olivier says only 7 percent of Brazilians could retire on their own resources. Knote: Just to remind us that India is not the only game in D2C town, in steps the other "BRIC".

Ortolani, A. (2026, August 6). Edward Jones set for January bank launch to widen client lending options. WealthManagement.com. https://www.wealthmanagement.com/ibd-news/edward-jones-set-for-january-bank-launch-to-widen-client-lending-options Edward Jones is on track to launch its in-house bank in January, with David Chubak, head of wealth management and field management, describing himself as "cautiously optimistic" about the timeline. The bank will be used for lending rather than retail banking and checking, which Edward Jones already offers through a partnership with U.S. Bank that provides checking and credit cards. Edward Jones received approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions in March, having indicated it would seek to open in early 2026. The bank will be led by President Andrea Moss and will eventually bring the firm's Reserve Line of Credit and other lending options to all 50 states, with Chubak noting margin lending is hitting record highs. The new bank, in the works since 2020, would also fuel the firm's private client service division and Edward Jones Generations, launched in March 2025 for clients with at least $10 million in investable assets. Knote: The mission is to not give your clients an excuse to get within 50 meters of a Chase or Bank of America branch.

TradePMR. (2026, August 4). AI for financial advisors takes a step forward at SYNERGY26. https://www.tradepmr.com/blog/ai-for-financial-advisors-takes-a-step-forward-at-synergy26 TradePMR by Robinhood announced Robinhood Cortex for Advisors, an AI tool coming to the Fusion platform at no additional charge to advisors using Fusion. The AI underlying Robinhood Cortex for Advisors has already been deployed across nearly one million retail Robinhood investors. The tool is built to deliver insights across portfolio positions, surface tax optimization opportunities, and streamline meeting preparation and recap. Abhishek Fatehpuria, VP of Product Management at Robinhood, described a platform where data moves naturally, workflows connect to each other, and intelligence appears where advisors expect it. Joanna Stern, author of I Am Not a Robot and founder of The New Things, advised advisors to use AI to move faster and spark ideas while keeping human judgment in the loop. Presenters concluded that AI in wealth management is currently "middle-to-middle" rather than end-to-end, with advisors most comfortable applying it to note-taking and form completion. Korrine Kohm, Head of Wealth Management at altPilot Group, recommended firms administer an internal survey of AI tool usage to support audits and reviews and to identify candidates for enterprise-level licenses. Knote: Don't forget about AI governance.

Steves, R. (2026, August 5). Orion brings fractional share trading to RIAs using Schwab custody. FinanceFeeds. https://financefeeds.com/orion-brings-fractional-share-trading-to-rias-using-schwab-custody/ Orion launched fractional share trading for registered investment advisors who custody with Schwab Advisor Services, integrated directly into Orion Trading and its order management system. The capability targets whole-share limitations that create residual cash balances and tracking differences from intended allocations for firms managing thousands of client accounts through model portfolios. Advisors can invest capital to exact dollar amounts, reducing cash drag from uninvested capital waiting to accumulate for full-share purchases. Fractional positions enable more accurate index replication for direct indexing strategies and smaller accounts without substantially increasing operational complexity. Trent Mumma, Chief Product Officer at Orion, stated that advisors reported fractional shares would make a real difference in how precisely they can manage client portfolios. The integration operates within existing Orion workflows, requiring no separate applications or manual processes. Portfolio rebalancing gains precision, tax-loss harvesting executes more efficiently, and the practical minimum account size for model-based investing effectively decreases. Knote: Given that almost 1/3 of the S&P is trading over $250 per share, this seems like a solid win for advisors.

The WealthTech Strategy Team tracks every unique WealthTech fundraising and acquisition event, turning it into data and analytics built to help startups, strategic buyers, and financial backers spot where the opportunities and growth are. Our first-half 2026 numbers are attached. Sub-$10M deals are at an all-time low. We saw the writing on the wall here. The shiny new startup is getting harder to back when there's always a shinier one tomorrow. But here's the twist: the companies that have shown real traction are at an all-time high ($10M–$30M Round size). Let me put it simply: You built a great product? Nobody cares. Your product is showing real traction? Good luck keeping investors away. There's really no in-between anymore. Book an introductory call to hear more of our take on the WealthTech funding and M&A market.

Business Wire. (2026, July 28). Snappy Kraken report finds financial advisor website form submissions jumped 110% amid AI-driven changes in investor research behavior. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260728662355/en/Snappy-Kraken-Report-Finds-Financial-Advisor-Website-Form-Submissions-Jumped-110-Amid-AI-Driven-Changes-in-Investor-Research-Behavior Snappy Kraken released its State of Digital & AI 2026 report, an analysis based on aggregate, anonymized platform data from more than 9,000 advisors across its Campaigns App, Websites product and Freedom 360 managed marketing program. Website form submissions increased 110% between 2024 and 2025 even as overall website traffic increased 10.3%, and Q4 website conversion rates rose 106%. Advisors with connected CRM systems generated roughly three to four times higher engagement across key marketing metrics than advisors without CRM connectivity. Campaign email volume increased 7.3%, while opens increased 4.9% and clicks increased 10.4%. Awareness content remained the most widely adopted campaign type, but only 23% of awareness content users added nurture sequences that help turn visibility into conversations. Referral campaigns generated the highest email-to-form submission rate by content type, but only 14.2% of advisors used them. CEO Robert Sofia stated that AI is changing where discovery begins while trust, validation, conversion and follow-through are evolving alongside it, and the report concludes that advisor growth increasingly depends on connected marketing systems rather than standalone campaigns. Knote: There is certainly a lot to unpack here, but the general message seems to be that both inbound and outbound marketing are working. We are a bit surprised by the uptick in click and open rates on outbound. Our loose notion was that AI would create a content blunderbuss that would force those rates down. Perhaps the take-away is that it is the nurturing campaign that matters more.

Ripple, the blockchain-based enterprise infrastructure provider, has made strategic investments in ZILO and Licuido, adding regulated transfer agency, issuance and collateral mobility capabilities to its platform on the XRP Ledger. The deals build on existing partnerships between the three companies and mark Ripple's latest move to expand infrastructure for institutional investors moving traditional assets onchain. ZILO provides transfer agency and fund administration technology that gives asset managers, custodians and transfer agents digital record-keeping for tokenized share classes. Licuido operates a tokenization and trading platform that lets traditional financial assets, including fund shares, move as digital collateral through onchain settlement. Nigel Khakoo, SVP of trading and markets at Ripple, said the two firms provide capabilities essential to scaling tokenized fund structures, pointing to existing partnerships with Aviva Investors, Franklin Templeton and DBS as evidence of institutional demand. The investments address a gap in capital markets infrastructure that predates institutional digital assets, where collateral often sits idle and settlement can lag. Ripple's platform pairs issuance, custody and atomic settlement with its RLUSD stablecoin as the cash leg for delivery versus payment transactions. The moves extend Ripple's earlier collaboration with Aviva Investors to tokenize fund structures on the XRP Ledger, continuing its buildout of regulated infrastructure for asset managers, custodians and transfer agents entering digital markets.

CAIS, the alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, has raised $170 million in a Series D financing that values the company at more than $2 billion. Vista Equity Partners led the round, joined by AllianceBernstein, funds managed by Blue Owl Capital, Carlyle, Fortress Investment Group, Golub Capital, Lord Abbett and Royal Bank of Canada. The July 29 announcement brings total capital raised since the firm's 2009 founding to nearly $600 million. CAIS provides pre-trade, trade and post-trade lifecycle management for alternatives, covering the operational workflow that has long made private markets difficult for wealth managers to access. The platform serves more than 2,500 wealth management firms representing over 65,000 advisors who oversee approximately $8.5 trillion in end-client assets. Founder and chief executive Matt Brown said the firm's biggest chapter is still ahead. Proceeds will fund platform expansion, technology and artificial intelligence capabilities, and strategic opportunities. The round reflects a broader shift in alternatives. Advisors increasingly treat private markets as a way to differentiate their investment process, while alternative managers facing tapped-out institutional demand look to the wealth channel for new pools of capital. Several of those managers appear on the investor list, which shows how closely the two sides are now aligned. Transparency, liquidity, research, education and onboarding friction remain obstacles, and platform infrastructure is where the industry expects to solve them. MMnote: While $600 million raised is a crazy amount, what's more impressive is 37% organic CAGR for such a mature platform. Some can be attributed to the functionality, but the alts market is so ripe that this can be achieved before taking wallet share from anyone else. My guess is 90% of those folks haven't had a solution for alternatives prior to using CAIS. Link to article

WealthReach, an AI-powered organic growth platform for registered investment advisors and wealth management firms, has acquired AdvisorRankings, a search engine optimization and AI search optimization agency built specifically for financial advisors. The acquisition brings AdvisorRankings' advisor-focused search and website expertise in house, giving WealthReach a done-for-you offering alongside its existing self-serve technology. Founded in 2010 by Brent Carnduff, AdvisorRankings has spent 16 years helping advisory firms rank on Google and, increasingly, on AI platforms such as Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity. The firm will continue operating under its own brand within WealthReach, with Carnduff leading business development and shaping the company's SEO and AI search roadmap. “We've always believed advisors should have the flexibility to choose how they grow,” said Michael Barrasso, co-founder and CEO of WealthReach, noting the deal lets the company support both self-managed and expert-led growth paths. The move matters because prospects are increasingly researching advisors through AI tools rather than relying on traditional search alone, and research cited in the release suggests AI-driven leads tend to carry higher intent and net worth than those from conventional channels. The acquisition follows a $1 million seed round and the earlier purchase of Model FA's intellectual property, continuing WealthReach's push to combine technology, expert execution and consulting under one platform. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260730017756/en/WealthReach-Acquires-AdvisorRankings-Adding-In-House-Expertise-to-Help-Financial-Advisors-Get-Found-in-the-AI-Era

Allfunds Group plc. (2026, July 29). Interim report 1H 2026. https://cms-assets.allfunds.dev/assets/Allfunds_Group_plc_Interim_Report_1_H_2026_Board_VF_a146578b40.pdf Allfunds' total assets under administration reached €1,943 billion at 30 June 2026, an increase of 21.3% year-on-year, with platform service AuA up 23.0% to €1,385 billion and Dealing & Execution AuA up 17.3% to €558 billion. Net revenue rose 9.9% year-on-year to €337.6 million and adjusted EBITDA grew 10.2% to €229.0 million at a 67.8% margin, while the platform margin excluding net treasury income was 3.0 basis points. Platform service net flows were €51.1 billion, or 8.2% of beginning-of-period platform service AuA on an annualised basis, down from €54.2 billion in the prior-year period. The company added 46 new distributors and 94 fund partners in the first six months of 2026 as clients replaced internal solutions and moved to an open-architecture model. Alternatives continued to expand, with 253 alternative fund partners available on the platform, up 32.5% year-on-year, and Alternatives Solutions AuA of €41.4 billion, up 54.4%. Shareholders voted in favour of Deutsche Börse AG's recommended cash and share acquisition of Allfunds on 12 March 2026, and the directors still expect final approval to be completed in the first half of 2027. CEO Annabel Spring said that with the portfolio review complete the company is focused on accelerating growth in alternatives and ETFs and advancing innovation in tokenization, and Allfunds guided to platform service net flows of €100 billion to €120 billion for 2026. Knote: Things to watch from a WealthTech lense: Increase in Alternatives (we believe model portfolio services will be a primary beneficiary) and increasing demand for MPS from independent advisors (we believe a significant tailwind for Allfunds).

Morningstar, Inc. (July 28, 2026). Morningstar, Inc. reports second-quarter 2026 financial results [Press release]. Business Wire. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260728222875/en/Morningstar-Inc.-Reports-Second-Quarter-2026-Financial-Results Morningstar reported second-quarter revenue of $663.2 million, up 9.6% on a reported basis and 6.8% organically, with Morningstar Credit, Morningstar Direct Platform, and PitchBook the largest contributors to organic growth. Operating income rose 28.4% to $160.6 million and operating margin reached 24.2% versus 20.7% a year earlier, while diluted net income per share increased 35.4% to $2.83. Morningstar Credit was the fastest-growing segment, with revenue up 23.4% to $104.9 million on robust issuance and particular strength in US structured finance ratings and Canadian and US corporates. Morningstar Wealth revenue declined 6.2% to $60.3 million and assets under management and advisement fell 4.5% to $63.8 billion, though excluding the sunsetting of Morningstar Office organic revenue would have increased 5.3%. Morningstar Retirement revenue grew 17.0% to $37.9 million and its AUMA rose 9.0% to $311.0 billion, driven by market gains and positive net flows to traditional and Advisor Managed Accounts. CEO Kunal Kapoor said the company is building agentic workflows and tools atop its data, research, and intellectual property, and is expanding collaborations with leading model and enterprise technology providers to broaden access to that content. Kapoor also pointed to the convergence of public and private markets, citing private ratings activity in Morningstar Credit, a Morningstar Wealth collaboration with leading asset managers to create public/private models, and the latest State of Semiliquid Funds report. Knote: From a WealthTech standpoint, the drivers to watch are Credit Ratings, Private Asset Ratings (not there yet, although they might try to argue otherwise), and Public/Private Models.