Diversified Announces Viral Tripathi as CIODiversified has announced Viral Tripathi as chief information officer. The technology executive brings more than 30 years of experience leading enterprise transformation and delivering business outcomes in private equity-backed professional services and global organizations. "Diversified has strong fundamentals, an exciting growth agenda and a leadership team with the ambition and urgency to match," says Tripathi. "This is exactly the kind of opportunity I look for: a well-run business with the scale, talent and commitment to keep raising the bar, a long-term vision for market leadership and a clear understanding that technology can drive meaningful enterprise value." At Diversified, Tripathi will lead the company's enterprise technology strategy, overseeing global IT across applications, cybersecurity, data and analytics, digital innovation, infrastructure and business systems. His role will include strengthening the digital and data foundation needed to support AI enablement, improve operational efficiency, and ensure technology serves as a true driver of commercial value and long-term competitive advantage. Tripathi, who officially joined the company yesterday, reports to CEO Paul Lidsky and serves on Diversified's executive leadership team. "As Diversified continues to scale globally, technology must be a core driver of operational excellence, customer experience and long-term growth," says Lidsky. "Viral's track record leading complex IT modernization programs, building global delivery models and using data and AI to improve business performance aligns directly with where we are headed as a company. I'm confident he will be a strong partner to our leadership team as we strengthen the digital foundation that supports our people, our clients and the future of our business." Before joining Diversified, Tripathi served as CIO of C1 (formerly ConvergeOne), leading enterprise IT transformation, including a cloud ERP program, establishing data analytics and scaling the company's global IT capability center. Prior to that, he was CTO and then Global CIO at Ascendion (formerly Collabera), a technology engineering and talent solutions group. There he enabled revenue growth via technology modernization and data-driven insights, rapidly deploying core systems and embedding generative AI into core platforms to drive productivity. Additionally, Tripathi spent more than seven years of his career at KPMG, where he advised Fortune 500 C-level leaders and private equity sponsors on IT strategy, M&A integration, digital transformation across the U.S. and Europe and large-scale operational transformation. Tripathi was honored with a Top 100 Technology Professionals OnCon Icon Award 2025, which was based on peer voting across the technology community. 
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