Media

Coverage, commentary, and public work.

A verified archive of articles, quotes, interviews, announcements, and speaking topics tied to product leadership, advisor intelligence, financial data, AI, wealth-tech, and enterprise software.

Coverage Themes

The media archive is organized around the problems I work on.

These clusters help connect individual mentions to the broader operating themes: advisor movement, AI and data, ETF distribution, company building, and product execution.

Speaking

Topics for executive, investor, and industry audiences.

Useful sessions should help the audience make better decisions about product, data, AI, wealth-tech, and SaaS execution.

AI implementation in wealth-tech and enterprise SaaS

How teams move from AI demos to trusted product behavior, useful workflows, and measurable outcomes.

Advisor movement, RIA growth, and financial data infrastructure

What public records, movement data, advisor behavior, and firm formation reveal about the market.

Product strategy for data-heavy SaaS

How to build products that make complex data usable, reliable, and valuable for customer teams.

Founder-led operations across capital models

How bootstrapped, VC-backed, and PE-backed companies require different growth systems and executive cadence.

Board and diligence questions for AI, data, and technology risk

How executives, investors, and acquirers should evaluate product substance, architecture, data quality, and AI claims.

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Hesom Parhizkar at OpenAI DevDay 2025

AI Ecosystem

OpenAI DevDay 2025

AI strategy gets better when it stays close to the builders, tools, and developer workflows shaping the market. OpenAI DevDay is one signal of that operating style: learning from the ecosystem, then translating it into practical product, data, and customer decisions.

Archive

Coverage archive.

A broader set of verified public mentions, quotes, announcements, and recognitions. New links can be added here as additional coverage surfaces.

Authored WealthManagement.com

Is This the Start of a Financial Advisor Retirement Boom?

Authored analysis on advisor headcount pressure, retirement risk, AI, and what the wealth management industry needs to do to attract and retain talent.

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Quoted WealthManagement.com

AdvizorPro: More Advisors Left the Industry Than Joined in 2025

Quoted on advisor workforce outflows, the aging advisor population, and the continued migration toward independent RIAs.

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Interview Advisorpedia

Why RIA Valuations Are Climbing and How Tech-Driven Firms Are Winning the M&A Race

Interview on RIA consolidation, private equity, technology leverage, advisor movement data, and why efficient firms are attracting capital.

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Quoted Financial Advisor Magazine

Independent Broker-Dealer Survey 2026

Quoted on AI adoption across broker-dealers, LPL and Anthropic, and how technology changes advisor capacity and enterprise strategy.

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Quoted The Daily Upside

Advisors' Favorite ETFs of 2025

Quoted on ETF adoption, thematic demand, AI and crypto strategies, and why ETF issuers still need disciplined distribution.

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Quoted Financial Planning

Should Advisors Work With a Recruiter or Go It Alone?

Quoted on advisor recruiting, recruiter specialization, hidden opportunity flow, and how advisors should evaluate career options.

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Quoted WealthManagement.com

Report: New RIA Headquarters Are Not Following Demand

Quoted on the mismatch between population growth and RIA headquarters formation, including implications for talent, infrastructure, and local advisory ecosystems.

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Quoted WealthManagement.com

ETF Usage Varies Widely Among Top RIAs

Quoted on AdvizorPro analysis of 13F filings from top RIAs and how advisors select ETF vehicles across client portfolios.

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Quoted WealthManagement.com

Government Shutdown Threatens Record RIA Growth

Quoted on how the federal shutdown threatened new RIA approvals and what the data suggested about continued firm formation demand.

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Quoted WealthManagement.com

SEC RIA Registrations Surge After Shutdown Ends

Quoted on the post-shutdown registration rebound and why state filing activity showed advisor entrepreneurship had been delayed, not suppressed.

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Quoted WealthManagement.com

Nearly $1B in Commonwealth Assets Leaving LPL

Quoted on Commonwealth advisor attrition, advisor platform choice, technology stack loyalty, and expected RIA launch activity.

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Quoted The Daily Upside

Why Wirehouses Are Losing Fewer Advisors

Quoted on wirehouse retention, advisor career progression, and the infrastructure helping more teams evaluate independence.

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Quoted The Daily Upside

How ETF Issuers Can Use AI to Target New Strategies

Quoted on ETF issuer distribution, AI-enabled targeting, advisor segmentation, and the operating work that happens after prospect discovery.

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Quoted The Daily Upside

Why Some RIAs Want Bigger Slices of the ETF Pie Than Others

Quoted on ETF allocation differences across top RIAs, mutual fund overlays, crypto ETF adoption, and how firm behavior shows up in data.

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Quoted The Daily Upside

The Fastest-Growing ETFs for Advisors

Quoted on niche strategies, younger advisor teams, alternatives, ETF liquidity, and the long-term move away from mutual funds.

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Quoted Financial Planning

Women Advisors Are at a Plateau. It Will Take More Than Recruiting to Fix It

Quoted on gender representation across advisory channels, structural differences between large platforms and independent RIAs, and breakaway patterns.

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Quoted Financial Planning

Why Advisors Keep Saying Goodbye to Commonwealth, LPL Financial

Quoted on Commonwealth departures after the LPL acquisition, advisor timing, and how asset retention matters more than headline headcount.

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Quoted Advisors Magazine

Post-Mortem: How the 2025 Government Shutdown Disrupted RIA and BD Registrations

Quoted throughout a shutdown analysis using AdvizorPro data to explain SEC registration delays, firm launches, client onboarding, and advisor movement.

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Quoted Financial Advisor Magazine

Non-Legacy Custodians Using Tech to Compete With Schwab, Fidelity

Quoted on Altruist, digital-first custody, advisor demand for mobile data access, AI note-taking integrations, and multi-custodian behavior.

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Interview Financial Advisor Magazine

Wela: Conversation Makes Advice Powerful

Interviewed as Wela CTO on AI, messaging, advisor workflow efficiency, eVestment experience, and building fintech tools for RIAs.

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Syndicated CFP Board

Is This the Start of a Financial Advisor Retirement Boom?

CFP Board surfaced the WealthManagement.com article in its In the News section, extending the reach of the advisor-retirement analysis.

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Announcement PR Newswire

PlanPro Co-founder Hesom Parhizkar Joins as CTO

Announcement of the full-time co-founder and CTO role at PlanPro, with responsibility for product and technology across PlanPro and AdvizorPro.

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Announcement Apptega

Apptega Welcomes Hesom Parhizkar as Vice President of Technology and Product

Announcement of the VP of Technology and Product role at Apptega, including prior CTO work at Wela and senior technology leadership at eVestment.

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Announcement Metro Atlanta CEO

AdvizorPro Appoints Brandon Smith as Chief Technology Officer

Quoted as co-founder and Chief Product Officer on AdvizorPro leadership expansion and the transition from CTO to product leadership.

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Announcement EIN Presswire

AdvizorPro Half-Year Recap Showcases Enhancements to Intermediary and Investor Database

Quoted on product progress across datasets, AI contact algorithms, enriched profiles, search filters, and firm-level intelligence.

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Announcement EIN Presswire

AdvizorPro Unveils ContactIQ 4.0

Quoted on ContactIQ 4.0 and the use of AI to improve wealth advisor intelligence, data quality, and sales-team productivity.

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Announcement Goodwood Consulting

Goodwood and AdvizorPro Announce Strategic Partnership

Quoted on combining AdvizorPro data and software integrations with Goodwood technology implementation services for financial services distribution.

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Recognition Atlanta Technology Professionals

2022 ATP Gala Finalists

Listed as a Startup Disruptor Award finalist as Co-founder and CTO of PlanPro.

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