Andre Zardini brings more than 20 years of IT leadership, consulting and management experience, with both large- and medium-sized organizations, to his role as Chief Information Officer (CIO). He has expertise leading business transformation initiatives and implementing IT strategies across multiple business application platforms in a variety of industries. He is responsible for designing and implementing our technology roadmap to improve our competitive position, productivity and performance.

Andre has held several CIO/IT leadership roles over his career with organizations including Adtalem Global Education (Medical & Healthcare segment), SunCoke Energy and Rewards Network. While at Adtalem, he had much success in the modernization of the IT platforms, in the implementation of a series of technology innovation initiatives associated with student learning and in the development of state-of-the-art campuses for medical/nursing universities.

Andre’s focus on the importance and need for strong, reliable and secure IT infrastructure, combined with a passion and desire to incorporate and leverage innovation as a differentiator to our business, brings a high level of value to our organization.

Andre holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His international experience includes assignments in Canada, South America and Europe and he is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.