Andrew Bereczky has been Chief Information Security officer (CISO) at the Automobile Club of Southern California since February 2016.  In this role he’s responsible for creating a culture of enablement and leverage, while managing the organization’s information security risk posture.

Prior to this role Andrew provided strategic consulting services to a multitude of national companies and served as the SVP & CIO of Zenith Education Group.  In this role he was responsible for all technology operations, enablement, and innovation across more than 88,000 students and 100 campus locations.  He came to the college with a rich background driving technology enablement and change within industries such as Health Care, Human Capital, Financial Services, and the Business Process Outsourcing Industry.

As global CIO with Alorica, in the BPO space, he supported multiple mergers and acquisitions while driving the technology team to achieve corporate recognition by Gartner (Global Magic Quadrant listing), win the Information Week Top 500 Technology innovator award in years 2011 & 2012 (for Global Analytics & CRM), along with IDC Marketspace Major Player recognition in 2013.  He’s complimented these achievements by publishing several articles regarding shifting customer dynamics & hosted contact center solutions.

Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and earned his MBA from Cal State Dominguez Hills in Los Angeles, CA.  Always working to give back to the community, Andrew supports a multitude of efforts and regularly joins with others to contribute to thought leadership groups.