{"id":637790,"date":"2026-05-12T03:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:32:17","slug":"osaics-head-of-strategy-head-of-engineering-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637790\/","title":{"rendered":"Osaic\u2019s Head of Strategy, Head of Engineering Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Two senior executives at Osaic have stepped down from their roles this week, including Dimple Shah, head of strategy and client experience, and Sudhakar Kanagarajan, head of application engineering and architecture, the firm confirmed. Osaic has not hired replacements for either role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">An Osaic spokesman said Shah decided to depart to pursue a new opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">\u201cWe thank Dimple for her contributions during her four years at the firm and wish her the best in her next chapter,\u201d the spokesman said. \u201cOsaic has a strong leadership team in place and remains focused on executing our strategy and continuing to invest in the solutions, support and client experience that drive advisor growth and success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">A source familiar with the industry said Shah is joining one of Vestigo Ventures\u2019 portfolio companies. Vestigo is the venture capital firm created by Mark Casady, the former CEO of LPL Financial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Kanagarajan is joining Fidelity Investments, where he worked for 16 years prior to joining Osaic in 2023. He was serving as vice president of wealth management technology before departing Fidelity. Osaic uses Fidelity as one of its custodians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\">Related:<a class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthmanagement.com\/career-moves\/people-moves-lido-names-new-president-stern-moves-to-co-ceo\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People Moves: Lido Names New President, Stern Promoted to Co-CEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">\u201cWe are grateful for his contributions to Osaic and wish him success as he returns to Fidelity Investments, one of our strategic partners,\u201d the Osaic spokesman said. \u201cWe have a strong, experienced team in place and remain focused on continuing to advance our technology roadmap and empowering financial professionals in support of their clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Shah <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthmanagement.com\/wealth-management-industry-trends\/advisor-group-builds-out-leadership-with-two-new-hires\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">joined Osaic in 2022<\/a> as executive vice president of corporate strategy, with more than two decades of experience in designing corporate strategies. Since joining, Osaic has gone through a rebranding and the consolidation of its eight broker\/dealers via the firm\u2019s \u201cJourney to One\u201d initiative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">\u201cIt is a huge loss. I think people really saw her as one of the potential successors for the president and CEO over time,\u201d the source told Wealth Management.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Prior to joining Osaic, Shah was a managing principal at Cielo Advisor, an independent strategy consulting firm. Prior to that, she was head of corporate strategy for LPL. When she was at LPL in 2019, Wealth Management named her <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthmanagement.com\/ria-news\/the-ten-to-watch-in-2019\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of its \u201cTen to Watch\u201d for the year<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Some of Shah\u2019s direct reports may go to Shannon Reid, who was <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthmanagement.com\/career-moves\/osaic-hires-shannon-reid-as-head-of-advisor-growth\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hired in December<\/a> as president and head of advisor growth and engagement, a newly created position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">This follows news late last month that Osaic\u2019s private equity owner <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthmanagement.com\/ibd-news\/reverence-capital-partners-closes-2b-osaic-recapitalization\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reverence Capital Partners closed on a recapitalization of the broker\/dealer<\/a>, with Bain Capital entering as a new investor. The deal raised more than $2 billion in fresh capital for Osaic, and allowed Reverence to retain majority ownership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\">Related:<a class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthmanagement.com\/career-moves\/people-moves-two-fnb-trust-advisors-move-to-janney\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People Moves: Janney Adds Two FNB Advisors, Alaris Hires M&amp;A Vet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two senior executives at Osaic have stepped down from their roles this week, including Dimple Shah, head of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-637790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}