Senior Director
Cornerstone Advisors
Tony DeSanctis is a Senior Director at Cornerstone. Tony also leads the executive education practice, facilitating our curriculum of classes, including Payments School, Digital School, C&I Summit, and Disruption University. Tony also facilitates the C-suite level roundtables for Cornerstone. Tony is a 20+ year seasoned senior financial services executive with a track record of managing product, operational, and analytical organizations, re-engineering processes, launching products, optimizing customer relationships, and generating incremental revenue. He brings an extensive background in product management, sales strategies, existing customer marketing, and customer retention.
His prior experience includes being the SVP of Payments and Mobile Banking at the Bank of Hawaii and the Consumer Bank and Card Marketing Operations Director, Customer Marketing at Bank of America.
Tony is a contributing writer for Gonzobanker and is frequently quoted in industry periodicals, including Financial Brand, American Banker, Banking Dive, CU Today, and CU Management.
This panel focuses on where agentic AI creates measurable competitive advantage: faster risk decisions, proactive client engagement, real-time liquidity management, and scalable growth without linear cost increases. Executives will explore how agentic systems enable banks to operate confidently in on-chain finance, instant payments, and global markets—while maintaining trust with clients and regulators. The discussion will focus on: