Meet the team
Our executive and senior leadership teams bring strong functional expertise and diverse perspectives to set strategic direction and support our Osaic communities.
Cindy Hamel
As Head of Osaic Advisors at Osaic, one of the nation's largest providers of wealth management solutions, Cindy leads the development and enablement for our supported independence model, Osaic Advisors. She also oversees potential M&A activity across all of Osaic’s affiliation models.
Career summary
With more than 30 years of wealth management industry experience, Cindy has an affinity for the financial advisor profession and is passionate about the work they do on behalf of millions of Americans. This passion-combined with inspiration from her father who led by example to instill in her a strong work ethic-has led to her being an industry-leading innovator in elevating customer experiences through leadership development, staffing and training, operational efficiencies, process improvement, and automation.
Cindy joined Osaic in 2016 after holding executive leadership roles at Cetera Financial Group, ING, and Aetna Financial Services.
She has a bachelor's degree in Commerce with concentrations in Finance and Management Information Systems from the University of Virginia and a master's degree in Management of Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She also holds FINRA Series 7 and Series 24 licenses and is a Six Sigma/Lean master black belt.