Tripp O'Connor

Tripp O'Connor is the Chief Financial Officer at Alston & Bird. Tripp has over 10 years of experience in the financial and consulting industries.

Tripp started their career at GrowthOps, a company they co-founded and served as the COO. At GrowthOps, Tripp led solutions planning, operational insight, and client projects focused on driving "business intelligence as a service." Tripp also managed the development and operations of GrowthOps' solutions that analyze consumer and commercial data to produce actionable insights.

In their role at GrowthOps, Tripp helped develop a "next best banking product" BI platform for a client which reduced the build & operating costs by 60% and significantly reduced the time to generate insights. For another client, they provided real-time analysis of customer accounts to enable the client to offer its customers personalized services.

Tripp left GrowthOps in 2016 to join Capgemini as their CFO of Applications Technology. In this role, they were responsible for managing the budgeting, financial performance, growth, investment, cost management, and profitability of 10 business unit P&Ls. Tripp also led Operations for the Applications unit to manage resource utilization, staff pyramid, and retention initiatives.

At Capgemini, Tripp helped the company achieve $15 billion in revenue and over 225,000 employees. In 2020, they left Capgemini to join Alston & Bird as their Chief Financial Officer.

Tripp O'Connor has a MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Tripp also attended Westminster School.

Tripp O'Connor reports to Richard R. Hays, Managing Partner & Chairman. They are on a team with Cathy A. Benton - Chief Human Resources Officer, James S. Hutchinson - Chief Administrative Officer, and Mariana Loose - Chief Marketing Officer.