{"id":268827,"date":"2026-06-09T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/wealth-managers-race-to-put-ai-leaders-in-place-as-technology-reshapes-the-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:25:18","slug":"wealth-managers-race-to-put-ai-leaders-in-place-as-technology-reshapes-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/wealth-managers-race-to-put-ai-leaders-in-place-as-technology-reshapes-the-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealth managers race to put AI leaders in place as technology reshapes the industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/transformation\/wealth-managers-race-to-put-ai-leaders-in-place-as-technology-reshapes-the-industry\/266958\">Wealth managers race to put AI leaders in place as technology reshapes the industry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/transformation\/wealth-managers-race-to-put-ai-leaders-in-place-as-technology-reshapes-the-industry\/266958\">https:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/transformation\/wealth-managers-race-to-put-ai-leaders-in-place-as-technology-reshapes-the-industry\/266958<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 18:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.investmentnews.com\">www.investmentnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                New C-suite and specialist roles signal that firms are treating AI as core infrastructure.\n            <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">SEI and Destiny Wealth Partners have put dedicated leadership behind their artificial intelligence ambitions, reflecting how seriously firms are taking the technology&#8217;s potential to transform advisory work.<\/p>\n<p>SEI, the Pennsylvania-based financial technology and asset management group with roughly $1.9 trillion in AUM\/AUA announced a trio of appointments that together span strategy, execution, and data.<\/p>\n<p>Sneha Shah takes on the newly created role of Chief AI Strategist, while Michael Tryniszewski joins as Head of AI Orchestration and William Coffey becomes Chief Data Officer. The structure is deliberate: Shah sets the direction, Tryniszewski operationalizes it across business lines, and Coffey builds the data infrastructure the whole effort depends on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AI is no longer optional for financial services firms; it&#8217;s a strategic accelerant that requires clarity, accountability, and long-term vision,&#8221; said SEI CEO Ryan Hicke. &#8220;Sneha has been instrumental in shaping SEI&#8217;s AI journey, embedding it into how we operate and evolve the business while ensuring our approach is grounded in responsible use, strong governance, and real business impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shah, who has spent more than 25 years across roles at London Stock Exchange Group, Refinitiv, and Thomson Reuters, joined SEI in 2023 and has since built out SEI Next, the firm&#8217;s innovation and venture-building unit.<\/p>\n<p>Her new brief is to shape enterprise AI&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/transformation\/wealth-managers-race-to-put-ai-leaders-in-place-as-technology-reshapes-the-industry\/266958\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wealth managers race to put AI leaders in place as technology reshapes the industry https:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/transformation\/wealth-managers-race-to-put-ai-leaders-in-place-as-technology-reshapes-the-industry\/266958&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn-res.keymedia.com\/investmentnews\/uploads\/2024\/05\/technology-control-law-ai-concept-for-ai-ethics-and-developing-artificial-codes-of-ethics.jpg_s1024x1024wisk20c4pwmL1NAwlDcYecUaaGIW5KOLkRdOW4oFgqBmnAR4lc.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-268827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268829,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268827\/revisions\/268829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}