Tom Gerdes is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of The Heico Companies, responsible for global information technology and information security across the 70 company portfolio. His experience spans global M&A deal execution, technology transformation and cloud migration, IT organization design and enablement, technology strategy development and implementation, and complex global program delivery.

Prior to The Heico Companies, Tom held several IT leadership positions at Johnson Controls, and prior to that held senior manager positions at Deloitte and Ernst & Young.