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Morgan Stanley promoted a tech government in its wealth administration division to grow to be the financial institution’s first head of firm-wide synthetic intelligence, CNBC has discovered.
The financial institution is elevating Jeff McMillan, a veteran of the New York-based financial institution, to assist information its implementation of AI throughout the agency, in accordance with a memo despatched Thursday from co-presidents Andy Saperstein and Dan Simkowitz.
Final yr, Morgan Stanley turned the primary main Wall Avenue agency to create an answer for workers based mostly on OpenAI’s GPT-4, a challenge overseen by McMillan.
The transfer reveals the rising significance of synthetic intelligence in monetary providers, sparked by the meteoric rise of generative AI instruments that create human-like responses to queries.
Whereas Wall Avenue corporations broadly pared again jobs final yr, they competed to fill hundreds of AI positions, poaching workers from each other.
In June, JPMorgan named Teresa Heitsenrether its chief information and analytics officer accountable for AI adoption. At Goldman Sachs, Chief Info Officer Marco Argenti is seen because the lead AI advocate.
Learn the complete Morgan Stanley memo asserting McMillan’s new function:
We’re happy to announce that Jeff McMillan has assumed a brand new place as Head of Firmwide Synthetic Intelligence, co-reporting to us.
Jeff beforehand led Wealth Administration’s Analytics, Knowledge and Innovation group the place he performed a key function in driving Wealth Administration’s technological evolution, from our Fashionable Wealth Administration platform to most just lately our groundbreaking work with our unique companion, OpenAI.
In his new function, Jeff will coordinate throughout the Agency to make sure now we have the suitable AI technique and governance in place. In doing so, he’ll companion with the enterprise models and infrastructure areas to establish and prioritize AI alternatives; assist place the Agency inside the movement of AI growth throughout the trade and be certain that Morgan Stanley continues to be a well-respected innovator in AI.
To execute on our AI technique, Jeff will work carefully Mike Pizzi, Head of U.S. Banks and Expertise, Sid Visentini, Head of Agency Technique and Katy Huberty, Head of International Fairness Analysis. Katy and Jeff will co-chair the Firmwide AI Steering Group, comprised of enterprise unit and infrastructure representatives.
Please be part of us in congratulating Jeff on his new function.
