Milind Mehere, Founder and Former CEO of YieldStreet, Joins Board of Directors at Advisor360°

WESTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 6, 2024--

Advisor360°, a leading provider of integrated technology for enterprise wealth management firms, is pleased to announce the appointment of Milind Mehere, founder and former CEO of YieldStreet, to its Board of Directors. An award-winning entrepreneur, Mehere has a track record of building large, scalable businesses and creating new product categories.

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Mehere most recently served as CEO of the digital investment platform YieldStreet for nine years, growing it to a fintech unicorn with 500,000 members and over $5 billion in investments. He also co-founded Yodle, an ad technology platform for small- and medium-sized businesses, scaling it to more than $200 million in revenue and 1,400 employees, which led to its $342 million acquisition by Web.com in 2016. Mehere’s strategic vision has earned him numerous accolades, including being named a Finalist in 2023 for EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year. He is also an Innovation Fellow at Columbia University and an international keynote speaker.

"We are thrilled to have Milind join our Board as we continue to expand our offering and add new clients,” said Mike Fanning, CEO of Advisor360°. “Milind is an expert at growing companies and is passionate about leveraging technology to bring professional wealth management and investing guidance within reach of more individuals and families.”

Mehere’s appointment comes at a time of robust growth at Advisor360°. In addition to Mike Fanning assuming the role of CEO earlier this year, the company recently brought onboard Bank of America veteran Abbe Gálvez Cordón as Senior Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development while continuing to evolve its award-winning Digital Onboarding platform and grow its client roster.

“I’m very excited about the cutting-edge work that Advisor360° is doing to transform the way financial advisors and firms work—and look forward to helping the company reach the next level,” said Mehere. “Advisor360° is at the forefront of AI innovation and data automation in wealth management. The company’s commitment to the end investor really comes through in how it serves clients.”

About Advisor360°

Advisor360° builds, integrates and delivers technology for wealth management firms. The company’s award-winning integrated and open architecture SaaS platform brings a connected digital wealth experience to financial advisors, their clients and the home office so that firms can drive better outcomes and innovate quickly. Advisor360° clients benefit from timesaving capabilities and streamlined workflows when it comes to portfolio and performance reporting, financial planning, insurance, proposal generation, trading and model management, digital onboarding, document management, analytics and compliance. The company’s proprietary Unified Data Fabric® (UDF) is the foundation of its platform, weaving together shared services and pre-built integrations that work with existing technology stacks. The company is headquartered in Weston, Massachusetts, with offices in Bengaluru, India; and remote workforces in Canada and Northern Ireland. Today, three million households with $1 trillion in assets benefit from the connected Advisor360° experience. To learn more, visit www.advisor360.com.

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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The last time Khadija Ahidid saw her son, he came to breakfast in 2021 looking “homeless” with big hair so she offered to give him $20 so he could go get a shave or a haircut that day. Hours later, he shot and killed 10 people at a supermarket in the college town of Boulder.

She saw Ahmad Alissa for the first time since then during his murder trial on Monday, saying repeatedly that her son, who was diagnosed after the shooting with schizophrenia, was sick. When one of Alissa’s lawyers, Kathryn Herold, was introducing her to the jury, Herold asked how she knew Alissa. Ahidid responded “How can I know him? He is sick,” she said through an Arabic interpreter in her first public comments about her son and the shooting.

Alissa, who emigrated from Syria with his family as a child, began acting strangely in 2019, believing he was being followed by the FBI, talking to himself and isolating from the rest of the family, Ahidid said. His condition declined after he got Covid several months before the shooting, she said, adding he also became “fat” and stopped showering as much.

There was no record of Alissa being treated for mental illness before the shooting. After the shooting, his family later reported that he had been acting in strange ways, like breaking a car key fob and putting tape over a laptop camera because he thought the devices were being used to track him. Some relatives thought he could be possessed by an evil spirit, or djinn, according to the defense.

No one, including Alissa’s lawyers, disputes he was the shooter. Alissa has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting. The defense says he should be found not guilty because he was legally insane and not able to tell the difference between right and wrong at the time of the shooting.

Prosecutors and forensic psychologists who evaluated him for the court say that, while mentally ill, Alissa knew what he was doing when he launched the attack. They point to the planning and research he did to prepare for it and his fear that he could end up in jail afterward to show that Alissa knew what he was doing was wrong.

Alissa mostly looked down as his mother testified and photographs of him as a happy toddler and a teenager at the beach were shown on screen. There was no obvious exchange between mother and son in court but Alissa dabbed his eyes with a tissue after she left.

The psychiatrist in charge of Alissa's treatment at the state mental hospital testified earlier in the day that Alissa refused to accept visitors during his over two year stay there.

When questioned by District Attorney Michael Dougherty, Ahidid said her son did not tell her what he was planning to do the day of the shooting.

She said she thought a large package containing a rifle that Alissa came home with shortly before the shooting may have been a piano.

“I swear to God we didn’t know what was inside that package,” she said.

Dougherty pointed out that she had told investigators soon after the shooting that she thought it could be a violin.

After being reminded of a previous statement to police, Ahidid acknowledged that she had heard a banging sound in the house and one of her other sons said that Alissa had a gun that had jammed. Alissa said he would return it, she testified.

She indicated that no one in the extended family that lived together in the home followed up to make sure, saying “everyone has their own job.”

“No one is free for anyone,” she said.

FILE - Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in March 2021, is led into a courtroom for a hearing, Sept. 7, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, Pool, File)