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Doug Besso is the Chief Technology Officer at HighTower. He attended DePaul Driehaus College of Business and Iowa State University. Doug has over 20 years of financial services experience and has been a leader in delivering value and innovation to the business. Doug was most recently the Head of Information Technology for Calamos Investments. Prior to Calamos, he was a Managing Director and Division Information Officer at Wachovia Securities. During his 10-year career at Wachovia, Doug held several senior management positions in IT where he had responsibility for the development of the firm's broker workstation system and Brokerage Data Warehouse. He also managed IT systems supporting the Private Client Group, Finance, Advisor Compensation, and Compliance. Earlier in his career he was Head of Applications Development for EVEREN Securities and an IT Director at Kemper Financial. Doug has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University, an MBA in Finance from DeP
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- • 325 investors hold the CTO role in VCSift. Doug Besso is one of them.
- • 23 investors are based in Naperville, Illinois, United States.
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