{"id":7993,"date":"2026-08-07T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iafpsymposium.ca\/2026\/?post_type=speaker&p=7993"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:05:45","slug":"john-connell","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/iafpsymposium.ca\/2026\/speaker\/john-connell\/","title":{"rendered":"John Connell"},"content":{"rendered":"

John began his career at Microsoft, where he managed a $1B P&L within Office 365 and contributed strategically to the company\u2019s acquisition of LinkedIn. After relocating to San Francisco, he joined a video conferencing startup that was later acquired by Dialpad. He went on to invest in enterprise SaaS and AI\/ML at a $5B AUM venture capital fund before becoming the first business hire at an AI-driven compliance startup, helping scale the company as business hire #1 from pre-revenue to $36M in funding within three years. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with studies in Finance and Management Information Systems, and had touchpoints early career across wealth management at Merrill Lynch and equity trading at Jefferies in New York. as the industry\u2019s most secure AI note-taking platform for financial planners, helping individual advisors save up to 15 hours per week and teams expand client capacity by 30%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7994,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"speaker-category":[],"class_list":["post-7993","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t