John O'Connell

John O’Connell has more than 30 years of leadership experience in both emerging businesses and mature, established organizations. He started his career designing and developing financial applications at Merrill Lynch and KPMG Peat Marwick. John is the Founder and CEO of The Oasis Group, which helps wealth management firms navigate AI Implementation, technology strategy, and cybersecurity. He created the AI WealthTech Map and the AI Readiness Assessment, and authors the Oasis Peaks Perspective newsletter to over 70,000 subscribers. John is the author of Rise of The Activist Investor, a handbook for investors who would like their money to reflect their values by exercising their rights as owners of publicly traded firms. He invented the Activist Investor Arc to describe how retail investors progress through different phases of activist investing.