Allen Fazio is the Chief Information Officer for Houlihan Lokey. He oversees the firm’s global IT strategy, enabling its 2,600+ employees to operate seamlessly worldwide. Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey in 2017, he served as the Chief Information Officer for The Word & Brown Companies and spent two decades at The Walt Disney Company, where he led technology initiatives. He was the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney Imagineering, responsible for technology at Disney theme parks and resorts worldwide. He also led technology teams at Disney Cruise Line. He is an independent board member of Tierpoint, a cloud-focused data center firm with over 40 world-class data centers across the US. Over the past decade, he has been recognized by several organizations, including Evanta, which named him a Top 10 Breakaway Leader in Technology.
On the 61st episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, Allen Fazio, CIO at Houlihan Lokey, joins the show to share how AI is reshaping a human-centric, professional services-style investment bank, from orchestrating a single model over decades of proprietary M&A data to empowering junior bankers with new analyst-first workflows that rewire how deals get done.
On the 61st episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, Allen Fazio, CIO at Houlihan Lokey, joins the show to share how AI is reshaping a human-centric, professional services-style investment bank, from orchestrating a single model over decades of proprietary M&A data to empowering junior bankers with new analyst-first workflows that rewire how deals get done.
Read about Allen’s perspective on how Houlihan Lokey is using AI to drive an analyst-first reinvention of mid-cap M&A and restructuring. He explains why the firm is investing in a single orchestration layer trained on its 20-year repository of deals and bid sets, and how that strategy enables it to safely combine proprietary insight with powerful third-party data. Allen also shares hard-earned lessons on sequencing AI rollouts from interns and analysts. He associates with managing directors and explains why moving too fast with senior leaders can “poison the well” for innovation.
