Steve Peden

Steve Peden currently serves as the Director of Technology Operations at Acadia. Prior to this, they were the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at AzureFirst from January 2014 to December 2017. In their role at AzureFirst, Steve led the migration of some 300,000 users to the cloud and created on-premises to cloud fail over.

At Acadia, Steve is responsible for security, compliance, planning, budgeting, budget tracking, global procurement, and offshore. Steve has helped busy teams execute and meet both time and budget goals. Steve has led teams to evaluate, agree, budget, design, build and migrate to their hybrid-cloud. Steve has modernized collaboration platforms, VOIP and data storage. Planned and executed the forklift migration or upgrade roadmap of enterprise applications to their new home on the cloud.

Steve Peden has an Executive Education in Information Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Bachelor of Science in Computing Science from Ulster University, and an Executive Education in Business Administration and Management, General from The Entrepreneurs Organization.

Steve Peden reports to Anil Kommareddi, Executive Director of Technology.