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Growth Through Strategic Partnerships with Dan O’Brien (Ep. 33 | Pt. 2)

Growth Through Strategic Partnerships with Dan O’Brien (Ep. 33 | Pt. 2)

​​Growth is on every trust leader’s mind, but for many firms, scaling creates operational drag that pulls their best people away from client relationships.

How do you build capacity for growth without sacrificing the service quality that defines your firm? How do you compete when talent constraints and market complexity make it harder to do everything in-house?

In our third conversation from the Association of Trust Organizations annual conference, Rusty Sommer speaks with Dan O’Brien, Business Development Officer, Financial Institutions, at AssetMark, about the paradox facing today’s trust companies. Dan shares strategies for leveraging partnerships to unlock operational efficiency, explaining how firms can access institutional-grade investment solutions, reduce time spent executing business, and create capacity for advisors to focus on what matters most: building relationships and serving clients effectively.

Dan discusses:

  • Why trust companies struggle with growth despite strong markets and how operational complexity holds them back
  • The power of client segmentation and why 70-80% of next-generation beneficiaries change advisors
  • How integrated technology platforms with CRM, planning, and investment tools create workflows that scale
  • What outsourced investment models actually look like and why they don’t mean losing control or client trust
  • Why community banks face unique talent challenges and how variable cost partnerships solve location constraints
  • And more!

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About our Guest: 

Dan O’Brien is a dynamic financial services sales executive with extensive leadership experience, specializing in consultative sales strategies that create win-win scenarios for buyers and sellers. He is adept at strategic thinking, creative solutions, and effective communication, with a deep understanding of the financial intermediary, M&A, bank trust and retirement marketplace. Dan possesses a proven track record managing complex sales cycles, interfacing with C-suite executives, and leading cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams. His exceptional presentation and negotiation skills, coupled with a strong work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit, have consistently delivered solutions that achieve results.

The Future of Wealth and Investment Management with Chip Roame (Ep. 6)

The Future of Wealth and Investment Management with Chip Roame (Ep. 6)

What does the future of wealth and investment management look like?

In this episode Chip Roame, Founder and Managing Partner of Tiburon Strategic Partners and the Tiburon CEO Summits, breaks down the top five trends he’s following in the wealth and investment management industry.

Chip also shares insight into whether these trends are here to stay, and how they should ultimately inform advisors when it comes to growing their business.

Chip discusses:

  • The five trends in the investment and wealth management industry
  • How Tiburon Strategic Partners conducts their research
  • Why advisors should focus on Gen Xers as the most prominent investors of the future
  • How advisors can consider other segments in their business if they want long-term growth
  • And more

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About our Guest: 

Chip Roame is the Founder & Managing Partner of Tiburon Strategic Advisors and the Tiburon CEO Summits, and a leading strategic advisor to CEOs, other senior executives, & boards of directors in the wealth & investment management (and WealthTech) markets. Prior to forming Tiburon in 1998, Mr. Roame served in similar capacities, first as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and later as a business strategist at The Charles Schwab Corporation.

Mr. Roame has responsibility for all of Tiburon’s advisory, research, service, & marketing activities which keeps him on the leading edge of strategic initiatives in the industry’s fastest-growing businesses – registered investment companies (mutual funds & exchange traded funds (ETFs)), direct indexing, managed account programs, hedge funds & liquid alternatives, cryptocurrencies (digital assets), structured products, sustainable investing (ESG), financial, tax, & estate planning, annuities & life insurance, discount & online brokerage, online advice firms (robo advisors), traditional financial advisor channels, break-away brokers, the independent advisor markets, wealth management marketing & LeadGen, wealth management technology & turnkey asset management programs (TAMPs), and wealth manager succession planning & acquisitions.

Mr. Roame has been the host and keynote speaker at the semi-annual Tiburon CEO Summits since their inception in 2001, the key speaker at Tiburon’s weekly Tiburon Webinars, and is the author of over 3,000 Tiburon Written Research topics & profiles.