Chandran Monikandan

With nearly three decades at the intersection of technology, operations, and retirement services, Chandran has spent his career solving the problems that keep retirement plan executives up at night. His journey spans some of the most respected names in the industry — Invesco Retirement, Princeton Retirement Group, and Merrill Lynch — where he architected large-scale platforms, led complex system migrations, and built high-performing teams trusted to deliver on the industry's most demanding mandates.

Over the years, Chandran witnessed firsthand how even well-funded, well-intentioned initiatives could spiral into costly overruns or outright failures — most often because the right people weren't asking the right questions at the right time. That pattern became a calling. He set out to build something different: a firm where deep, cross-functional expertise in technology, operations, and product wasn't siloed, but unified — and brought to bear on every engagement from day one.

The result is Convergent — and what Chandran considers one of the strongest retirement-focused teams in the country. Whether serving large recordkeepers navigating platform consolidations or smaller retirement shops tackling their first major migration, the Convergent team brings decades of hands-on experience across every dimension of the retirement ecosystem.