Announces John Edison as Division President to Lead Momentum of Risk Intelligence Platform
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Aug. 4, 2025 – SymphonyAI, leader in vertical AI, is accelerating adoption of its AI-driven end-to-end financial crime platform and doubling down on its commitment to compliance transformation with the appointment of John Edison as President of its Financial Services division. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Edison brings more than two decades of global executive experience in scaling technology businesses and delivering transformative outcomes across the financial sector.
SymphonyAI’s Financial Services division is experiencing significant momentum, with its advanced solutions empowering leading banks and fintechs to modernize financial crime prevention. Leveraging AI-powered risk scoring, automated suspicious activity report (SAR) narratives, sanctions and adverse media screening, and auditable investigations—all delivered in a secure, explainable platform—SymphonyAI helps financial institutions process millions of risk decisions daily across 40+ countries. These solutions accelerate investigations and reduce false positives by up to 80%, driving rapid SaaS adoption and delivering exceptional value to financial institutions as they face increasingly complex regulatory and threat environments.
“Financial institutions today require more than generic innovation—they demand strategic, AI-powered solutions built on deep domain knowledge to achieve real-world impact,” said Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of SymphonyAI. “As the leader in AI-driven fincrime prevention, we deliver intelligence and action at scale to help organizations stay ahead of evolving threats and compliance demands. John’s vision and proven results in software transformation and SaaS growth perfectly complement our mission to equip financial institutions with the tools to address today’s—and tomorrow’s—challenges. I am excited to welcome John to SymphonyAI, and am confident that under his leadership, our Financial Services division will set new standards for industry innovation and customer success.”
Edison joins SymphonyAI from Honeywell, where he served as Chief Strategy & Product Officer for Honeywell Connected Enterprise, driving the design and commercialization of advanced software solutions with tangible business outcomes. At ESKO, a Danaher company, he led a return to growth and a successful transition to SaaS, while at Oracle he repositioned the Financial Services Global Business Unit as an AI and cloud innovator for the risk and compliance market. His diverse leadership history, including roles at Hewlett-Packard and Vignette (now OpenText), further underscores his expertise in scaling software organizations and driving operational excellence.
“SymphonyAI’s focus on actionable AI for financial institutions stands out in the industry,” said Edison. “SymphonyAI is already delivering measurable results at scale, helping financial institutions accelerate investigations and reduce false positives while meeting the highest standards of compliance. In the coming months, I’m focused on deepening our market leadership in financial crime prevention and ensuring we continuee to deliver tangible value across risk, compliance, and operations. The opportunity to build AI that not only keeps up with threats but gets ahead of them is what drew me to SymphonyAI.”
John holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Trivandrum and a Master’s in Information Systems Management from Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business.
About SymphonyAI Financial Services
SymphonyAI Financial Services is at the forefront of industry transformation, equipping banks, credit unions, insurers, and fintechs with vertical AI SaaS solutions that unify domain-specific expertise and advanced technology. With the Sensa Risk Intelligence platform, financial institutions process millions of risk decisions daily, accelerate investigations, and reduce false positives by over 80%. SymphonyAI Financial Services delivers actionable intelligence for compliance, risk mitigation, and customer growth—arming financial institutions with the tools to thrive in a rapidly evolving regulatory and competitive landscape.
About SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI builds vertical AI applications that help enterprises tackle their most complex, high-value challenges—like stopping financial crime, improving store performance, and boosting manufacturing efficiency. Trusted by more than 2,000 enterprise customers around the globe including 200 of the top financial institutions, top 25 CPGs, and many of the world’s largest grocers and industrial manufacturers, SymphonyAI delivers domain-trained applications and pre-built agents, ready to work on day one.
Learn more at www.symphonyai.com
