Al Chiaradonna
Al is a global executive and Board Director with experience that spans financial services, professional services, Mergers & Acquisitions, PE-backed and incubator startups, and educational organizations.
For more than 20 years he held dual roles as a senior executive with SEI Investments Company and as an Adjunct Professor of Strategy, Leadership, and Executive Coaching in the School of Business at Villanova University, combining his zeal for business with a passion for developing the next generation of business leaders. In both roles, he is known for bringing new business to market and effectively building and scaling teams.
As a member of the Executive Management Team at SEI Investments, Al led a multi hundred-million-dollar global outsourcing business and spearheaded the single largest investment in firm history, a strategic initiative to launch a new global technology and outsourcing platform in the UK. Al scaled the business from scratch growing it to a $100M+ unit within seven years. He also pioneered one of SEI’s first incubation experiments – an investment management outsourcing service for money managers that grew to be one of the firm’s largest segments.
In 2001, concurrent with his start at SEI, Al was recruited by the Dean of Villanova University to bring business expertise to their new Executive Education program and shape the Executive MBA strategy and offerings. He has won the “Excellence in Teaching” award 18 of his 21 years at the university. Al is the owner and founder of an Executive Coaching and Client Advising business, Dux Learning Salon, LLC. He has worked with leaders at organizations such as Dow Jones, Merck, Comcast, and various start-up and entrepreneurial leaders.
Al also serves as a board member for two independent schools. As Chair of the Board of Trustees for Gwnedd-Mercy Elementary School, he increased non-tuition revenue by 150% over three years and helped to grow enrollment by 30%. As Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at AIM Academy, Al led strategic planning to launch an e-learning concept that has generated nearly $10M of revenue to date within three years of its launch.
Al earned a BBA in Accounting from Temple University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. A confident communicator in both the boardroom and the classroom, he is an award-winning business instructor, blog author, TEDx presentation creator, and certified Gallup Strengths coach. Al resides in the Philadelphia area with his wife and three children.
