ReachStack names AI leader New VP Engineering

PR VP eng aug 4 2020

ReachStack names AI leader new VP Engineering as focus shifts to US Wealth market.

ReachStack Names AI Leader Raghavendra Iyer as VP Engineering. Focus shifts to United States Wealth Management Market.

TORONTO, CA – ReachStack, North America’s leading content automation platform for wealth management firms and their advisors, has announced the hiring of US data science and artificial intelligence leader Raghavendra Iyer as Vice President of Engineering. This hiring is part of ReachStack’s ongoing commitment to provide wealth management firms and their advisors with the best solutions to manage and improve client engagement.

Mr. Iyer joins ReachStack from integrate.ai, where he led and managed a team of full stack engineers responsible for building and maintaining custom software and artificial intelligence applications. Prior to migrating to Canada to join the global AI community in Toronto, Mr. Iyer served in multiple leadership roles in the United States wealth and health technology space including QPID Health, The MatchWorks, and Fidelity Investments. Mr. Iyer holds a Masters degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.

In his new role, Mr. Iyer will continue to build ReachStack into a world class scalable platform for marketing automation, data collection and artificial intelligence. He will help broaden ReachStack’s capabilities to satisfy exploding customer interest in more actionable and impactful communications between wealth-management clients and their advisers.

“I’m very pleased to be joining an organization with a strong track record of innovation in the artificial intelligence and software space,” said Mr. Iyer. “ReachStack’s team has created a platform that significantly improves engagement between wealth advisers and their clients. I am excited as we enter new markets across the United States and harness artificial intelligence to help wealth managers improve their relationships with clients, improve customer loyalty, and boost their assets under management.”

Mr. Iyer said he is excited to be working in Toronto, where the financial technology industry continues to grow at a rapid pace. His appointment will enable ReachStack to use Toronto as a launching point to expand its reach to U.S.-based financial institutions.

The recent COVID-19 outbreak has created unique opportunities for wealth advisers to increase and improve communications with their clients. Financial organizations across North America have ramped up investment in recent months in artificial intelligence and cloud-computing platforms designed to leverage customer data. Platforms like ReachStack provide a turnkey solution to money managers and marketing teams and allow them to seize the conversation with timely content. To help wealth management firms achieve their goals, ReachStack employs artificial intelligence, content distribution solutions, cloud based marketing automation, and program management (including outsourcing of content). The appointment of Mr. Iyer is the latest commitment by ReachStack to build its innovative approach to next generation email and content distribution.

“We’re excited to have Raghavendra on the team. He brings a tremendous skill set that will help our team broaden our offerings for leading wealth advisors,” said ReachStack co-CEO and CTO Sean Kenalty. “His deep experience in data science, artificial intelligence and wealth management will help continue to build ReachStack into the world’s top data driven marketing automation platform for advisors. He will be instrumental in future product development of the data solutions wealth management firms across North America are seeking.”

About ReachStack

ReachStack is the first fully compliant, centralized client communication and content distribution platform made by wealth advisors for advisors. Our platform utilizes artificial intelligence to mine communications for data and insight, then efficiently streamlines client engagement and AUM impact. For more information, please contact Brendan Kenalty, CMO at brendan.kenalty@reachstack.com.

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