LPL Nabs Microsoft Exec to Lead Advisor Solutions

For the past four years, Fandrey has served as a financial services executive at Microsoft, first as general manager starting in 2016 and then as vice president-financial services U.S. since 2017, according to his LinkedIn profile.

In the latter role, he led an organization of sales, support, technology and customer success professionals, "driving client-centric digital transformation across leading banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and capital markets firms," LPL said.

He joined Microsoft in 2000 as a technical specialist and later became a senior enterprise account executive before being promoted to the role of  global sales director for BNY Mellon in 2007, enterprise sales director for New York in 2011 and then chief of staff for Microsoft's chief operating officer in 2013.

At Microsoft, "I've helped teams drive transformation and grow by listening to the voice of the customer and leveraging that feedback to either enhance existing capabilities or build new ones," according to Fandrey.

"I'm excited to bring the same passion and discipline to my new role at LPL leading Advisor Solutions, and look forward to contributing to the firm's mission of taking care of its advisors so they can take care of their clients."

LPL had about 17,300 affiliated advisors at year-end 2020.

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