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Family Office Principal and Former Chairman & CEO, Iron Mountain
During his tenure leading the world's largest information management company, Richard Reese pioneered industry standards for protecting sensitive data. Now applying that knowledge to his own family office through iPaladin, Richard provides unique insights into building sustainable governance structures for multi-generational wealth management.
iPaladin, The Digital Family Office™, transforms family office operations by unifying wealth management into a single, proactive system. Since 2010, iPaladin has led the market by integrating data, documents, and workflows into a cohesive, audit-ready system.
Reese's decades of experience revealed a critical truth: Less than 2% of stored information is ever accessed. Yet because no one knows which 2% matters, everything gets kept—creating a paralyzing web of fragmented data that:
Reese's search for a solution revealed a systemic failure at the heart of family office operations. His verdict overturns conventional wisdom: "I talked to tax CPA firms. They said they could handle everything for me. It didn't take long to understand they didn't have the technology. They were trying to do it manually, and we buried them really fast."
The pattern is clear - and destructive:
"Consultants can't make money selling a tool that does the job for you," Reese explains. "They sell standardized tools and customize them, requiring you to keep going back to them. CPA firms are often not willing to invest in the kind of tools required to deliver good services because they're not incentivized to be more efficient."
iPaladin doesn't iterate on broken models - it eliminates them. The platform's unified architecture delivers what Reese calls "transformative capabilities":
"The documents come in, the information flows, extracted automatically, pretty much with a little manual review, and flows right into general ledgers and into Addepar for performance management... For the first time in a long time, we actually have usable information."
- Seamless data flow across locations
- Remote collaboration without security compromise
- Integration with outsourced providers
- Location-independent operations
The systemic challenge Reese identified runs deeper than conventional wisdom suggests. His experience reveals why traditional approaches fail:
"I could remember the transactions. I could go back and see the documents, but it only took 2 or 3 years for me to go - Whoa! This is not working. And then to realize that I could do it. But nobody else could do it. That's the first realization that I said, 'Hey, I've got to get out of this.'"
Through iPaladin, Reese engineered a definitive solution that:
The wealth transfer tsunami is here. Regulatory scrutiny is intensifying. Cyber threats are multiplying. As Reese warns: "The great wealth transfer is moving about 2.5 trillion annually... Criminals and governments go where the money is, and that money is winding up in family offices."
The mandate is unequivocal: Eliminate fragmentation at its source or watch your legacy erode through generational transitions. The time for systematic transformation is now.
The conventional response - adding another tool, hiring another consultant - isn't just inadequate. It's actively harmful. Every day spent with fragmented systems compounds your operational risk exponentially.
Consider the real costs of fragmentation:
Your family's legacy deserves more than fragmented systems that compound risk. It deserves an operational foundation built for generations, not quarters. One that eliminates complexity rather than managing it.
The time for systematic transformation is now.
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