Jeff Rodek
Special Advisor
Accretive LLC
Jeff Rodek is a Special Advisor with Accretive LLC. Prior to Hyperion’s sale to Oracle, Jeff was the Executive Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Hyperion Solutions, Inc., the global leader in Business Performance Management software and a company named in 2004 as a Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For and listed on the Forbes 200 Best Small Companies.
Rodek served as Chairman and CEO of Hyperion from October 1999 to July 2004. Under his leadership, the company experienced a tremendous turnaround, improving performance and achieving record sales. During a period of economic downturn and declining technology market, Rodek also dramatically improved the company’s operating profits, margins and the balance sheet. The final three years were especially noteworthy as a result of the consistent quarterly improvement in numerous measures, including margin and earnings per share. Over the course of his tenure, Hyperion increased customer count by fifty percent.
Rodek’s focus on the transforming power of business information began 25 years ago at FedEx, where he built a flexible budgeting system that was one of the first Executive Information Systems and a forerunner to the “dashboards” that are the face of Hyperion’s Business Performance Management solutions. Today, Rodek is a recognized expert and speaker on business performance and related topics, including corporate governance and leadership.
Prior to Hyperion, Rodek served as President and COO of Ingram Micro, the world’s largest wholesale provider of technology solutions, products and services. Before that, Rodek spent 16 years at FedEx, beginning in Operations Research and rising to the position of Senior Vice President, the Americas.
Jeff currently is a part time Senior Lecturer at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University and serves on the Board of Directors of Accelrys, Inc., a public software company that develops and commercializes scientific business intelligence software for the integration, mining, analysis, modeling and simulation, management and interactive reporting of scientific data. Jeff also serves on The Ohio State University Alumni Association Board and the Dean’s Advisory Board, Fisher College of Business.
In his spare time, Jeff enjoys golf and spending time with his family. Jeff graduated from The Ohio State University where he earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Finance.