Andy DeShong

Andy DeShong is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Vizient, where he helps build the technology that keeps healthcare from grinding to a halt. With more than 25 years in IT and engineering leadership, including stints as CIO and CTO. He focuses on turning complex tech into something that actually delivers: better outcomes, smoother operations, and results you can measure without needing a 50-slide deck.

At Vizient, the nation’s largest member-driven healthcare performance improvement company, Andy co-leads the agile product ecosystem supporting over 60% of acute care providers. He also led the rollout of Vizient’s enterprise-wide generative AI strategy, which was recently featured in Gartner’s 2024 case study. The secret? Start with people, not platforms.

Before Vizient, Andy held leadership roles at Oppenheimer Funds, SunGard, and JPMorgan. He has a BA in Economics from Trinity University, completed executive programs at MIT, and serves on the advisory board for the Business Information Systems Department at TCU. He’s also been around long enough to remember when rebooting a server meant physically walking over to it.
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Andy is known for building high-performing teams, translating between business and tech without a whiteboard, and making transformation stick, even after the buzzwords wear off. For him, it’s never just about the tech. It’s about making it count.