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Naidu, Mohan

Founder and CEO

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Luminaries 2026

AI Innovation & Impact

Luminaries 2026 Impact Statement

Mohan Naidu, CEO and Founder of Alphathena, has operationalized a new model for how AI should function in portfolio management. That model is built on a clear and principled conviction: AI should always enhance and augment advisor judgment, never replace it. Mohan directed Alphathena's AI investment toward solving the industry's most complicated and necessary problems involving the portfolio management workflow itself. The result is Athena AI, an agentic reasoning layer that allows advisors to execute complex, tax-aware portfolio workflows in natural language, with full visibility into the logic behind every output. Advisors who previously relied on third-party managers or back-office specialists to execute portfolio transitions are now handling those workflows in-house, in minutes, with greater confidence and consistency than before.