Mike Trudnak

Mike Trudnak has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. Mike began their career in 1996 as an IT Support Engineer at Datanet, Inc. In 1999, they took on the role of IT Site Manager at OpenSite Technologies, where they were a key contributor in the sale of OpenSite to Siebel Systems for approximately $500M. After that, they worked as an IT Site Manager at Siebel Systems from 2000 to 2003. In 2003, they moved to Charles River Laboratories as an IT Senior Systems Administrator, where they were responsible for overseeing all aspects of information technology, information security, data and BI analytics. In 2005, Mike began working at Clinipace as the CiSO, VP, Global IT & DataCenter Services. From 2019 to 2020, they worked as the VP, Technology & Infrastructure at VeraSci, and concurrently held the roles of Principal at Kinetic Clinical Research, LLC and Solutions Architect at Cadence Visual Analytics. Currently, Mike is the Chief Information Officer at Cognitive Research Corporation.

Mike Trudnak attended Randolph Macon Academy from 1990 to 1993, where they earned their High School degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. Mike then attended Virginia Tech from 1993 to 1995, where they studied Political Science but did not earn a degree.