LPL Names 30-Year Customer-Centric Leader Dayton Semerjian Managing Director, Chief Customer Care Officer
Firm hires industry expert with strong track record for transforming customer service experiences from process-centric to customer-centric
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 29, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading retail investment advisory firm and independent broker/dealer LPL Financial LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: LPLA), today announced Dayton Semerjian will join the firm as managing director and Chief Customer Care Officer, leading LPL’s Service, Trading and Operations organization, effective Feb. 28. With more than 30 years of professional experience, Semerjian will focus on delivering a differentiated service experience for LPL advisors.
“Dayton is a transformational leader who has significant experience leading large, complex firms in adopting new service models that focus on improving the customer service experience at scale,” said Dan Arnold, LPL president and CEO. “Our aspiration is to deliver our advisors a differentiated service experience that they can’t get anywhere else in the wealth management industry. Dayton has done this work before and knows the playbook for success. He’s the right person to help lead us from a process-centric to a client-centric organization.”
Semerjian joins LPL from CA Technologies, Inc. where he was most recently general manager and senior vice president, Global Customer Success. He joined CA Technologies in 2005 as part of that firms’ acquisition of Concord Communications, Inc., where he was executive vice president of Marketing and Strategic Alliances.
“LPL started a customer-centric journey last year focused on making it easier for its advisors to do business with the firm, and I’m excited to join and help my colleagues expand upon that vision,” Semerjian said. “It’s clear that LPL is committed to making service a competitive advantage, including ingraining a service mindset into the culture. I’m honored to join the management team and look forward to working to transform the customer experience at LPL.”
Prior to CA Technologies, Semerjian held a variety of leadership roles at Intel Corporation; Nation Street, Inc.; and Corente, Inc. (now Oracle). Semerjian graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1988. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1996. He was also awarded an advanced certificate of Executive Management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in 2018. Semerjian lives in Boston and will relocate to California to work out of LPL’s corporate offices in San Diego.
Semerjian fills a similar role previously held by Tom Gooley, who will retire in March.
“Tom made significant contributions to LPL’s success over the last three years, and we wish him well,” Arnold said.
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