10 Aspen Dental IT leaders
Jonathan Randall, Chief Information Officer at The Aspen Group, opens this list of Aspen Dental IT leaders, who also include vice presidents of enterprise IT, infrastructure and IT platform support, a director of IT operations and a head of IT clinical applications. A reader can learn how IT leaders work at Aspen Dental from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Alex Cross, MBA
LinkedInExperience: Head of IT Clinical Applications · The Aspen Group
Alex Cross has been Head of IT Clinical Applications at The Aspen Group since December 2025, in Chicago, Illinois. Alex Cross was Director Application Services at Endeavor Health from 2021 to 2025 and Clinical Applications Director & Manager at Cook County Health from 2018 to 2019.
Austin Dumas
LinkedInExperience: Director, IT Transformation and Tech Business Office · The Aspen Group
Austin Dumas has been Director, IT Transformation and Tech Business Office at The Aspen Group since September 2024, based in Little Silver, New Jersey. Austin Dumas was Director, Tech Business Office at Saks Cloud Services (SCS) at Saks Global from 2023 to 2024 and Director, Tech Business Office at Hudson's Bay Company from 2022 to 2023.
Eric Wawrzynek
LinkedInExperience: Director of IT Operations · The Aspen Group
Eric Wawrzynek has been Director of IT Operations at The Aspen Group since December 2020, in Chicago, Illinois. Eric Wawrzynek was Sr. Director, IT Infrastructure Service Delivery at Atos from 2013 to 2020 and Director IT Infrastructure at Xerox from 2008 to 2014.
George Zacharias
LinkedInExperience: Former Director, Information Technology · The Aspen Group
George Zacharias is a former Director, Information Technology at The Aspen Group, a role held from December 2023 to December 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. George Zacharias was Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Technology at Rivian from 2021 to 2023 and Program Manager, IT Infrastructure at Kroger Technology & Digital from 2018 to 2021.
Giorgi Ghviniashvili
LinkedInExperience: VP, Infrastructure · The Aspen Group
Giorgi Ghviniashvili has been VP, Infrastructure at The Aspen Group since October 2024, based in the New York City Metropolitan Area. Giorgi Ghviniashvili was VP, Store Systems at Saks Global from 2023 to 2024, VP, Store Technology & Infrastructure at Saks OFF 5TH from 2022 to 2023 and CIO at Jimmy Jazz from 2018 to 2022.
James Shriver
LinkedInExperience: IT Director, Product Management and Design · Aspen Dental
James Shriver has been IT Director, Product Management and Design at Aspen Dental since February 2020, and has also held a Sr Director Product Management at The Aspen Group row since January 2020. At Aspen Dental, James Shriver was also Manager, IT Business Engagement from 2016 to 2020 and Lead Business Analyst from 2010 to 2016.
Jeff Finkel
LinkedInExperience: VP. IT Platform Monitoring and Support · The Aspen Group
Jeff Finkel has been VP. IT Platform Monitoring and Support at The Aspen Group since June 2024, based in Wayne, New Jersey. Jeff Finkel was Vice President Development Operations at Hudson's Bay Company from 2013 to 2024 and Systems Manager at IntegraTouch from 2006 to 2013.
Jonathan Randall
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · The Aspen Group
Jonathan Randall has been Chief Information Officer at The Aspen Group since April 2024, a remote role per the profile. Jonathan Randall was Chief Information Officer (Spin-off of Hudson's Bay Company) at Saks OFF 5TH from 2021 to 2023 and Senior Vice President, Technology & Technology Finance at Hudson's Bay Company from 2018 to 2021.
Nick Kroenlein
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Digital Workspace · The Aspen Group
Nick Kroenlein has been Sr. Director of Digital Workspace at The Aspen Group since November 2022, in Chicago, Illinois. Nick Kroenlein was Director of Global End User Services at ADM from 2018 to 2022 and Manager of Application Infrastructure there from 2015 to 2018.
Ricardo Ramos
LinkedInExperience: VP, Head of Enterprise IT and Cloud Services · The Aspen Group
Ricardo Ramos has been VP, Head of Enterprise IT and Cloud Services at The Aspen Group since January 2022, based in the Greater Chicago Area. Ricardo Ramos was VP of Cloud Operations & IT at FourKites, Inc. from 2019 to 2022 and Head of Cloud Operations and Digital Infrastructure at Forcepoint from 2017 to 2019.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's own area, such as infrastructure, IT operations, digital workspace, clinical applications or IT transformation, to the decision in front of you. The CIO and vice presidents can speak to company-wide technology direction, while directors can speak to how their own area runs day to day.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you focus on first when you took on your current IT role?
- 02How do you weigh requests from clinical and business leaders against other IT priorities?
- 03Which IT projects have taken the most of your time over the past year?
Reaching Aspen Dental IT leaders
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