Joe Whittinghill

Delivery day at our Microsoft DCs as the first production Vera Rubins arrive. A huge thank you to our partners at NVIDIA and our Azure hardware and datacenter teams for all the incredible work that brought us to this milestone!

Please join us in welcoming Ted Speyer to D.A. Davidson as a Managing Director in our Financial Sponsors Group, based in New York. Ted brings more than 16 years of investment banking and capital markets experience, working closely with private equity firms and sponsor-backed companies on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, debt advisory, valuation, and exit planning. In his role, he will focus on developing relationships with financial sponsors and supporting clients across the firm's advisory and capital markets platform.   We're excited for the experience and perspective Ted brings to our growing team.

Tonight, I had the honor of accepting the CIO.com award, on behalf of our entire team, for the work the University of Montana has done through the FUTURE Project and our broader journey with AI. This award belongs to everyone who contributed to the FUTURE Project: examining how AI will change what we teach, how we teach, how we work, and what industry actually needs from graduates in a world shaped by AI. It's been a two-year endeavor. We've talked with over 2,000 people along the way. Students. Faculty. Staff. Industry partners. Community members. The FUTURE Project represents more than technological adaptation. It's about ensuring UM's response to AI aligns with our core mission of whole-person education, ethical leadership, and service to community. We're building a future where technology amplifies human potential rather than replacing it. A few examples of what the FUTURE Project has meant for UM and for Montana: - We launched TRAIL, a space for people to come in with curiosity and find their own ways to use AI in their day to day. - We launched ChatMT.ai across the entire Montana University System, giving every student, faculty, and staff member free access to leading AI models, built and run on our own infrastructure so access stays equitable and sustainable. - We launched the Institute for Human Centered AI, because we believe AI is more than a research question. It's going to impact everyone. Humans. And we need to be at the center of it. Period. Full stop. AI is a powerful extension of human intent. Used well, it should strengthen learning, scholarship, and the communities we serve, not diminish them. That means equipping our students, faculty, and staff not just to use AI, but to create with it, ethically and with discernment. That's the Montana way. AI is a polarizing topic. It heats up both sides of the aisle. What I love about Montana is that we've approached it in a thoughtful, deliberate way, where everyone's voice is heard. Bleeding edge or skeptic, we welcome the conversation. The work is never done. Another TRAIL workshop series is coming. The Montana AI Summit is coming. Year three of the FUTURE Project is kicking off. Like all Montanans do, we hold a seat at the table for our neighbors to share their voice, their concerns, or their excitement. Back to work. #HigherEdIT #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanCenteredAI #Leadership #Montana #FutureOfWork Adrea Lawrence Amy Ratto Parks Michael Cassens Tom Stergios Kate Pace David Firth Angie Thompson, MFRW Jesse King Natalie Bond Caitlin Byers Jason Neiffer, Ed.D. Eli Bowe Claudine Cellier Joshua Kornoff Paul Gladen Paul Lukacs + many many others!

Every breakthrough in AI begins with strong engineering foundations. That's what Microsoft 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐈 was designed to reinforce. We brought together experienced engineers to solve real-world problems using Microsoft's AI stack, learning through experimentation and collaboration. Seeing nearly 28,000 registrations and hundreds of working prototypes was a powerful reminder of the engineering depth and builder mindset across our developer community. For me, this reinforces an important belief: innovation starts at the core, with strong engineering practices, continuous learning, and a culture that empowers people to build, test, and improve. Congratulations to the winning teams, and thank you to everyone who made Microsoft Build AI possible. I look forward to seeing how these ideas evolve into solutions that create real-world impact! More about Build AI: https://lnkd.in/gb4XV__c #MicrosoftIDC #MicrosoftBuildAI

As some people may know, I’ll soon be leaving Microsoft after eight incredible years. Over the past few weeks, I've been handing over to my colleague and successor Duncan Taylor, spending time with customers and saying goodbye to many of the people who have made this chapter so special. After some heartfelt farewells, I'm looking forward to a short break before the next adventure begins. As I reflect on my time at Microsoft, I feel enormously grateful. Grateful for the opportunity to work alongside exceptional people, serve our customers and communities and play a small part in helping shape the future of AI technology across Australia and New Zealand. And there are lots of people to acknowledge! First, our customers. I'm proud of the partnerships we've built together over many years. Thank-you for allowing me to be part of your most important projects and business outcomes and putting your trust in our team. To the MS ANZ team- where do I start! you are an incredibly hardworking and dedicated group with deep care for our customers and each other. From supporting critical national initiatives during COVID, to delivering some of the region's most complex transformation programs and innovative AI outcomes, it’s been amazing working alongside you. Please know you are the best in the business! It’s been an absolute privilege to lead our Enterprise business and heartfelt thanks to my EC team and the EC Leadership team. I also want to say thank you to many exceptional Global and Asia leaders who have supported me in my career at MS over many years Judson Althoff Deb Cupp Rodrigo Kede Lima Ralph Haupter Ahmed Mazhari Steven Worrall Rachel Bondi Omar Abbosh Shelley Bransten - I have learned a lot from each of you. Special shout out to our WW engineering teams who have also supported on countless EBCs, innovation sessions and customer business reviews including Scott Guthrie Charles Lamanna Jeremy Hollett Jared Spataro Matt Sheard Swamy Narayana Jodi Larson and the many other WW leaders who lean in to support our ANZ customer’s everyday. To the MS Military Employee Group- from setting up this chapter locally and serving as Executive sponsor, supporting veterans and their families has been a deep passion for me. Special thanks to Stacey Lismore Nick Brown Mick Dunne and all incredibly dedicated MS military ERG team. And finally to the ANZ SLT a massive thanks to Jane Livesey for the support and my colleagues including Elena Wise Lindy Dang Tiffany Wright Vivek Puthucode Gael McLennan Adam Richings. Will definitely miss you guys! So what’s next? Next month, I will be joining EY as Managing Partner, Clients & Industries,working with David Larocca and the Oceania team and joining Hanne Jesca Bax on the EY Global Client & Industry leadership team. I'm excited to continue the journey with one of Microsoft's leading global AI Frontier partners. More to come! For now, thank you again to everyone who made my time at Microsoft so meaningful 🙏

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Yesterday was my last day working for Hagens Berman as a Litigation Law Clerk. Under the mentorship of Jake Berman and the Personal Injury team, I was able to independently draft demand letters, lead client intake calls, conduct my own legal research, and work with attorneys. This internship gave me the unique opportunity to get hands on work experience in the field of law and insight into what the legal profession has to offer. As I start my Junior Year of college, I Will continue to work for the Marketing department. Thank you to Jake for giving me this opportunity and my coworkers for an amazing summer!

We are pleased to announce that D.A. Davidson Companies served as an underwriter in the successful completion of Sacramento, California-based River City Bank’s (NASDAQ: RCBC) $122 million initial public offering on August 5, 2026. This is the 123rd announced capital advisory transaction for the D.A. Davidson & Co. Financial Institutions Group since the beginning of 2015 for banks, thrifts or investment companies. Join us in congratulating our deal team: Ramsey Gregg, Josh Nolan, Nathan Ail, Rupert Cox, Ryan Ferguson, Colton King, Jair Suazo, Matt Barger and Jeremy Wang 🎉

The most important thing my team will do this year won’t be any single product or feature we ship: instead, it will be changing how we work. I’ve started treating this evolution of our teams and structures as my main work product as a leader. I wrote about the three things that have mattered most as we’ve changed how we build – and there’s more we’re still figuring out.