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Wade, Toby

CEO & Founder, DeepVest

DeepVest

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Luminaries 2026

AI Innovation & Impact

Luminaries 2026 Impact Statement

Toby Wade, Ph.D., identified and solved the AI crisis wealth management didn't know it faced: frontier models were generating incorrect financial calculations 85% of the time, creating massive fiduciary liability for advisors who trusted them. Drawing on unique expertise as a former Bank of America quantitative strategist and Gemini AI/ML leader, Wade recognized what others missed: the hallucination problem wasn't a bug to fix; it was inherent to how probabilistic AI works. In wealth management, where trust is the product and fiduciary duty is the standard, this approach was fundamentally unsuitable. He helped lead the architectural vision for DeepVest's hallucination-free AI platform, combining curated institutional data with deterministic calculations delivering 100% verifiable accuracy.