Advisory Board

Mike Pearce currently serves as the Vice President Information Technology for the University of South Florida. The University of South Florida is among the nation's top 63 public research universities and one of 76 community engaged universities as designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. It is one of Florida’s top three research universities. USF was awarded more than $310 million in research contracts and grants last year. The University offers 217 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, specialty and doctoral levels, including the doctor of medicine. The University has a $1.6 billion annual budget, an annual economic impact of $3.2 billion, and serves 44,038 students on campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee and Lakeland. USF is a member of the Big East Athletic Conference.

Until recently, Mike served as the Chief Information Officer for Suffolk University in Boston Massachusetts. Prior to that he served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer for the University of Southern California, located in Los Angeles, and headed the technical component of the Information Services Division for the University.

He has held numerous other managerial positions in Accounting, Finance, and Information Systems for a variety of organizations ranging in size from small venture capital start-up firms to large multi-billion dollar conglomerates.

In these previous roles, Mike has held both technical and administrative roles of increasing responsibility such as the Vice President of Information Technology for Bausch & Lomb, Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Chiron Vision, and as Corporate Controller of Beckman Instruments.

During his 25 year history, Mike has led a number of global projects, system implementations, and reengineering initiatives for a variety of companies. He spearheaded the worldwide-shared services initiatives that resulted in a Shared Service Data Center in Geneva, Switzerland, and Fullerton, California. Mike currently holds a master's degree in Finance and a bachelor's degree in accounting with significant experience in Information Systems Management.

He serves on numerous customer, industry, and technology advisory boards throughout the nation.