Ashish Patel
Portfolio President & CIO
A seasoned technology executive, Ashish brings more than 20 years of experience in IT services, consulting, and e-commerce operations to AccelerEd. As Portfolio President & CIO, he leads the IT strategy and oversees the teams that modernize global enterprise applications and provide IT managed services for the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) and other prominent partner institutions. Building on AccelerEd’s history of innovation, his current knowledge and future vision of information technology advances the company’s mission of improving the student experience around the globe.
Before joining AccelerEd, Ashish served as a managing director of digital acceleration for MorganFranklin Consulting with a focus on the firm’s CIO and CFO advisory practices and developing solutions in IT strategy, business transformation, and technology modernization. Throughout his career, he has helped organizations worldwide improve their technology readiness and efficiency, with a focus on aligning business processes and IT capabilities to realize cost savings, accelerate performance, and sustain strategic flexibility.
Prior to MorganFranklin, Ashish was Senior Vice President of Technology for Bank of America, leading mobile and online retail banking technology projects, as well as CIO of Creative Marketing Solutions, where he played a key role in IT operations, fulfillment technology reengineering, and data management to drive business value. He holds an MBA and a Master of Science degree from University of South Carolina and is both a six-sigma green belt and a certified scrum master.
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