The Fourth Annual WealthBriefing WealthTech Americas Awards 2025

Leading results-driven strategic planning for growth-focused organizations, Patti operates two distinct yet compatible consultancies. As Founder and President of Boyle Consulting Group, she applies her expertise in developing brand positioning, mission/vision/values and digital marketing to private equity-owned businesses, including those in WealthTech and FinTech.  Following an early career in global marketing agencies, such as JWT and FCB, Patti led SEI Investments’ UK-based Marketing Team for Private Banking. Patti is also CEO of an early-stage venture, Sapience Leadership, affiliated with The University of Pennsylvania.  In this role, Patti works with a team of inspiring educational leaders in the areas of Educational Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and Executive Coaching.  Applying business principles and leadership experience to Education brings a unique balance to Patti’s work and has resulted in dynamic growth for both of her client communities. She has been active with the FWR Awards, since its inception in 2013.

Vikram Chugh oversees the wealth management platform at Robertson Stephens and is responsible for firm operations, advisor due-diligence and onboarding, technology, marketing and business strategy. Vikram has 20 years of leadership experience working at BlackRock, Merrill Lynch and Capital One. Most recently, Vikram led the business development effort for BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth business in the Americas region. He was instrumental in the build out and launch of BlackRock’s Digital Wealth platform including the Aladdin Wealth capability, iRetire solution as well as the acquisition of FutureAdvisor. Vikram earned a BTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), Delhi and is a CFA® charterholder.

Howard Geller is a strategic consultant working with family offices, individual investors, wealth managers, investment managers and private equity to assess, analyze and recommend solutions. He has over 20 years of diverse experience in the financial services industry with several notable financial organizations. His primary family office consulting focus has been on portfolio reporting system review and requirements development, best practices review, investment manager and outsourced service provider due diligence, and targeted project assessment and resolution. He functions as an internal consultant bridging the communication gap to solve problems, implement solutions and take advantage of opportunities.

Greg is Senior Director and Head of Wealth Management at FactSet.  In this role, he is responsible for thesuccess of FactSet’s overall Wealth Management business; from strategy and product creation to go-to-market delivery of services through the sales and marketing plans. Greg moved to London from the U.S. in 1999. For the 2 years prior to leading FactSet’s Wealth Management business unit, he was responsible for guiding the unit’s Wealth Management Strategy.  Before that, he spent eight years as Director of Workstation Solutions for the EMEA and APAC regions, and 5 years as Vice President, Institutional Sales in FactSet's UK Investment Management region.  Greg earned a degree in Economics from Boston College and is a CFA charterholder.

Dr. Tania Neild runs InfoGrate, an information technology consulting company that supports family offices.  She supports all aspects of their technology from cybersecurity and data integration to vendor selection and performance reporting.  She served as the CTO and COO of Private Client Resources, an aggregation, reconciliation and client performance reporting platform and before that she served as CTO of Envestnet, where she built a separately managed account platform recognized by Forbes in 2001 as “Best of the Web.”  Co-founded by Dr. Neild, Envestnet went public in the fall of 2010.

Gregory is a passionate brand strategist who believes that in a crowded, seemingly commoditized investment and wealth management marketplace, there is great need for innovation; that the ever-increasing sophistication of the ultra-high-net-worth, their ever-expanding needs, and the ever-changing investment environment demand this. He is dedicated to creating and evolving the strategies, tactics, and implementations of those who seek to achieve a business imperative: differentiation in pursuit of deliberate and sustained growth. Across a career spanning more than two decades serving those who serve the UHNW, Gregory remains an optimistic agent of change, evangelist of “Show, don’t tell” and believer in magic.

Danielle Roseman, Managing Director and Co-Head of Lazard Family Office Services has joined Lazard as part of the recent acquisition of Truvvo Partners LLC into Lazard Family Office Partners. Danielle was previously a Partner at Truvvo, serving as the Head of Operations since 2013. In her role, she is focused on implementing operational processes and enhancing technology systems focused on serving Family Offices. Danielle began her career at Goldman Sachs, serving as an analyst on the Mortgage and Rates Middle Office desk and moving to Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she was a Vice President on the Fixed Income Operating Officer’s team from 2010-2013.

William Trout serves as Director of the Securities and Investments practice at Datos Insights, focusing on technology strategy and innovation in the capital markets. He has particular expertise in platform automation; data capture, storage and analytics; and portfolio management and optimization. Within the wealth and asset management arena, his interests include investment advisory and wholesaling and distribution services, as well as private banking and trust.

Will's research and consulting work is informed by more than more than two decades of industry experience. Prior to joining Datos Insights, Will led wealth and asset management in the U.S. and the U.K. at Celent, a division of Oliver Wyman, before launching separate advisor- and investor-focused research practices at Javelin Strategy & Research. Prior to those roles, Will spent many years in product and segment management at BBVA Compass, where he helped guide the introduction of a pioneering managed-accounts platform and the expansion of banking and investments services targeting high-net-worth and institutional investors.

An authority on digital advice delivery, Will has been widely quoted in the trade press as well as in publications such as the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and gatherings. In his spare time, Will is an avid runner and reader of history.

Will holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College.

Danielle is an advisory partner leading our family office practice in the U.S. She advises clients on the unique needs of family offices and private wealth owners in the areas of technology automation and innovation, finance effectiveness and reporting, process improvement, operating model transformation, risk management, and vendor selection and implementation.​

Prior to joining PwC Danielle worked for two large global asset managers, gaining extensive industry experience in Chief Financial and Chief Administrative Officer roles. She also spent over 10 years as an auditor in the financial services sector.​

Danielle graduated summa cum laude from Augustana College. She is a licensed CPA and an Elijah Watt Sells award recipient.

Bill joined Summitas in 2010 and has over 40 years of experience working with single- and multi-family offices and registered investment advisors (SFOs, MFOs, and RIAs). Today, Summitas is the award-winning reference platform for communication privacy and data security in the family office and wealth advisory space.

Previously, he was a Senior Director with BNY Mellon Family Office and Managing Director with Rockefeller & Co. Earlier, he was Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, and a Vice President with J.P. Morgan in Geneva, Switzerland.

Bill is a regular at industry conferences where he speaks about software trends, technology risks, and family office operations. He earned his BA from the University of Notre Dame and MBA, summa cum laude, from Fordham University.

Helen Yang, CFA, is the founder and CEO of Andes Wealth Technologies, the first company to combine behavioral finance with risk visualization to help financial advisors deliver differentiation and truly personalized services.

A winner of the prestigious Harry Markowitz Award in 2011, Helen Yang has 25 years of experience in FinTech and holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to founding Andes Wealth Technologies, she held leadership positions at Thomson Reuters and Charles River Development, a State Street company.

Helen volunteers extensively, currently serving on the board of Lexington Lions Club and Asian Americans for Equal Rights.