Perry Rotella
Encyclopedia
Perry Francis Rotella is an American
businessman and the current senior vice president and chief information officer
of Verisk Analytics
, a Jersey City, New Jersey
-based corporation
. Rotella has held multiple information technology
executive positions with different large American companies. He also serves as the elected president
of the New York Metro
chapter of the Society for Information Management
, as a member of the governing body of InfoWorld's
Tri-State CIO Forum, and as a mentor in Columbia University's
Executive Master of Science in Technology Management program. According to a Verisk press release, he is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of information technology
initiatives such as systems for managing risk
and fraud
for mortgage, healthcare, insurance, and human resources companies as well as governments.
, Connecticut
to his parents Irene Rotella, a banker, and Louis Rotella, a US Navy World War II
veteran
and carpenter. He lived there through high school and graduated from Danbury High School
in 1981 where he was class treasurer. In college, Rotella became interested in computer science and business and pursued degrees accordingly. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1985 with bachelor's degrees in mathematics
and economics
. Rotella was a member of the fraternity Alpha Chi Rho
and served as chapter president during his junior year. During his years at Penn, computers were becoming increasingly popular and user-friendly for both business and home use and represented a promising career.
(AMS), where he held various positions including Chief Technology Officer for AMS's Insurance Technology Group. Rotella worked at AMS for 14 years, from 1985 after his graduation until he joined AIG.
Rotella joined American International Group
in 1999 as a vice president. In 2000 he became AIG's global chief technology officer, a position he held until 2003 when he became the chief information officer of AIG's Domestic Brokerage Group. He served as the CIO of DBG until 2006 when he became an Operation and Systems Executive until December 2006 when he joined Moody's Corporation.
as the senior vice president and chief information officer, a position he held for nearly three years until October 2009. Before joining Moody's, Rotella's primary role had always been a focus on information technology. At Moody's, Rotella's career took a turn toward a principal focus on supporting overall business strategy with his background in IT. The change was demonstrated in a January 2007 press release, where Rotella was quoted after being named CIO of Moody's with the following:
Rotella joined Verisk Analytics in October 2009, the same week as their headline-making, record October 6, 2009 initial public offering
which was the biggest IPO of any American company since that of Visa in March 2008. Rotella has continued his shift from an IT executive to a business strategy executive who focuses on IT at Verisk. According to Verisk, he is "responsible for the development and execution of information technology initiatives at Verisk Analytics in support of the company's business operations." Verisk CEO Frank J. Coyne
acknowledged Rotella upon announcing the appointment of a new CIO, saying, "With IT management experience spanning more than 23 years in diverse industries, Perry is an acknowledged thought leader in information technology...He brings a wealth of professional IT accomplishments to our organization."
of the New York Metro
chapter of the Society for Information Management
. He also is a member of the governing body of InfoWorld's
Tri-State CIO Forum for the New York tri-state area. He also spends time at Columbia University
as a mentor in their Executive Master of Science in Technology Management program.
. He holds a master angler award for a 35-inch record-length lake trout
he caught while fishing
in Stevens Lake in Manitoba
, Canada
, and is one of only two people to receive the master angler award for trout in 2004 at that lake. He is married and his wedding was featured in Flower Magazine
in an article titled "Golden State of Matrimony". He has two sons, Michael L. Rotella (age 23) and Jake H. Rotella (age 2), and a daughter, Madeline E. Rotella (age 20).
United States
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businessman and the current senior vice president and chief information officer
Chief information officer
Chief information officer , or information technology director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals...
of Verisk Analytics
Verisk Analytics
Verisk Analytics is an American financial services firm based in Jersey City, New Jersey, that provides information and analytical tools for mortgage and insurance companies, to better help them identify risks and standardize procedures...
, a Jersey City, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
-based corporation
Corporation
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. Rotella has held multiple information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
executive positions with different large American companies. He also serves as the elected president
President
A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
of the New York Metro
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
chapter of the Society for Information Management
Society for Information Management
The Society for Information Management is a professional organization of over 3,500 senior IT executives, Chief Information Officers, prominent academicians, selected consultants, and other IT thought leaders built on the foundation of local chapters, who come together to share and enhance their...
, as a member of the governing body of InfoWorld's
InfoWorld
InfoWorld is an information technology online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG...
Tri-State CIO Forum, and as a mentor in Columbia University's
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
Executive Master of Science in Technology Management program. According to a Verisk press release, he is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
initiatives such as systems for managing risk
Risk
Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity will lead to a loss . The notion implies that a choice having an influence on the outcome exists . Potential losses themselves may also be called "risks"...
and fraud
Fraud
In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation...
for mortgage, healthcare, insurance, and human resources companies as well as governments.
Education and Early Life
Rotella was born on May 28, 1963 in DanburyDanbury
Danbury is a city in Connecticut, U.S.Danbury may also refer to:*Danbury, Saskatchewan, Canada*Danbury, Essex, UK*Danbury, Iowa, U.S.*Danbury, Nebraska, U.S.*Danbury, New Hampshire, U.S.*Danbury, North Carolina, U.S.*Danbury, Texas, U.S....
, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
to his parents Irene Rotella, a banker, and Louis Rotella, a US Navy World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
veteran
Veteran
A veteran is a person who has had long service or experience in a particular occupation or field; " A veteran of ..."...
and carpenter. He lived there through high school and graduated from Danbury High School
Danbury High School
Danbury High School is a public high school in Danbury, Connecticut. Despite Danbury's population of 81,000, there is only one public high school, along with several small private schools, and one vocational high school. Danbury High School is supplemented by a magnet program called the Alternative...
in 1981 where he was class treasurer. In college, Rotella became interested in computer science and business and pursued degrees accordingly. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
in 1985 with bachelor's degrees in mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
. Rotella was a member of the fraternity Alpha Chi Rho
Alpha Chi Rho
Alpha Chi Rho is a men's collegiate fraternity founded on June 4, 1895 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut by the Reverend Paul Ziegler, his son Carl Ziegler, and Carl's friends William Rouse, Herbert T. Sherriff and William A.D. Eardeley. It is a charter member of the North-American...
and served as chapter president during his junior year. During his years at Penn, computers were becoming increasingly popular and user-friendly for both business and home use and represented a promising career.
Career at AMS and AIG (1985-2006)
Rotella started his career in 1985 at the now-defunct computer consulting company American Management SystemsAmerican Management Systems
American Management Systems was a high technology and management consulting firm, founded in 1970 by a group of five former Defense Department officials who had worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson administration...
(AMS), where he held various positions including Chief Technology Officer for AMS's Insurance Technology Group. Rotella worked at AMS for 14 years, from 1985 after his graduation until he joined AIG.
Rotella joined American International Group
American International Group
American International Group, Inc. or AIG is an American multinational insurance corporation. Its corporate headquarters is located in the American International Building in New York City. The British headquarters office is on Fenchurch Street in London, continental Europe operations are based in...
in 1999 as a vice president. In 2000 he became AIG's global chief technology officer, a position he held until 2003 when he became the chief information officer of AIG's Domestic Brokerage Group. He served as the CIO of DBG until 2006 when he became an Operation and Systems Executive until December 2006 when he joined Moody's Corporation.
Career at Moody's and Verisk (2006-Present)
In December 2006, Rotella joined Moody's CorporationMoody's
Moody's Corporation is the holding company for Moody's Analytics and Moody's Investors Service, a credit rating agency which performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities. The company also ranks the credit-worthiness of borrowers using a standardized...
as the senior vice president and chief information officer, a position he held for nearly three years until October 2009. Before joining Moody's, Rotella's primary role had always been a focus on information technology. At Moody's, Rotella's career took a turn toward a principal focus on supporting overall business strategy with his background in IT. The change was demonstrated in a January 2007 press release, where Rotella was quoted after being named CIO of Moody's with the following:
Rotella joined Verisk Analytics in October 2009, the same week as their headline-making, record October 6, 2009 initial public offering
Initial public offering
An initial public offering or stock market launch, is the first sale of stock by a private company to the public. It can be used by either small or large companies to raise expansion capital and become publicly traded enterprises...
which was the biggest IPO of any American company since that of Visa in March 2008. Rotella has continued his shift from an IT executive to a business strategy executive who focuses on IT at Verisk. According to Verisk, he is "responsible for the development and execution of information technology initiatives at Verisk Analytics in support of the company's business operations." Verisk CEO Frank J. Coyne
Frank J. Coyne
Frank J. Coyne is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Verisk Analytics and its subsidiary, Insurance Services Office .-Personal life:...
acknowledged Rotella upon announcing the appointment of a new CIO, saying, "With IT management experience spanning more than 23 years in diverse industries, Perry is an acknowledged thought leader in information technology...He brings a wealth of professional IT accomplishments to our organization."
Other Positions
In 2008, Rotella was elected for a term as presidentPresident
A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
of the New York Metro
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
chapter of the Society for Information Management
Society for Information Management
The Society for Information Management is a professional organization of over 3,500 senior IT executives, Chief Information Officers, prominent academicians, selected consultants, and other IT thought leaders built on the foundation of local chapters, who come together to share and enhance their...
. He also is a member of the governing body of InfoWorld's
InfoWorld
InfoWorld is an information technology online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG...
Tri-State CIO Forum for the New York tri-state area. He also spends time at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
as a mentor in their Executive Master of Science in Technology Management program.
Personal life
Rotella lives with his wife in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. He holds a master angler award for a 35-inch record-length lake trout
Lake trout
Lake trout is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, lake char , touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, they can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbellies and leans...
he caught while fishing
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch wild fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping....
in Stevens Lake in Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, and is one of only two people to receive the master angler award for trout in 2004 at that lake. He is married and his wedding was featured in Flower Magazine
Flower magazine
flower magazine is a quarterly, seasonal publication based in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded by Margot Shaw in 2007, flower magazine features national and international content, including profiles of floral designers and their creations, stylish weddings, and inspirations for entertaining and...
in an article titled "Golden State of Matrimony". He has two sons, Michael L. Rotella (age 23) and Jake H. Rotella (age 2), and a daughter, Madeline E. Rotella (age 20).
See also
- Verisk AnalyticsVerisk AnalyticsVerisk Analytics is an American financial services firm based in Jersey City, New Jersey, that provides information and analytical tools for mortgage and insurance companies, to better help them identify risks and standardize procedures...
- Moody's CorporationMoody'sMoody's Corporation is the holding company for Moody's Analytics and Moody's Investors Service, a credit rating agency which performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities. The company also ranks the credit-worthiness of borrowers using a standardized...
- AIGAmerican International GroupAmerican International Group, Inc. or AIG is an American multinational insurance corporation. Its corporate headquarters is located in the American International Building in New York City. The British headquarters office is on Fenchurch Street in London, continental Europe operations are based in...
- American Management SystemsAmerican Management SystemsAmerican Management Systems was a high technology and management consulting firm, founded in 1970 by a group of five former Defense Department officials who had worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson administration...
- Society for Information ManagementSociety for Information ManagementThe Society for Information Management is a professional organization of over 3,500 senior IT executives, Chief Information Officers, prominent academicians, selected consultants, and other IT thought leaders built on the foundation of local chapters, who come together to share and enhance their...