Perry Rotella

Perry Francis Rotella is an American businessman and the current senior vice president, supply chain group executive and Chief Information Officer of Verisk Analytics, a Jersey City, New Jerseybased 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 InfoWorlds TriState CIO Forum, and as a mentor in Columbia Universitys 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.

Rotella was born on May 28, 1963 in Danbury, Connecticut to 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 bachelors 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 userfriendly for both business and home use and represented a promising career.

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