Peter A. Christiaans

Immediate Past Board Chair and Chair, Board Nominations Committee

Peter Christiaans was initiated into Omicron Delta Kappa in 1993 at the University of Miami, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Master of Business Administration. Peter is the 2023-24 board chair and serves as the chair of the board’s Executive Committee. As an at-large trustee, his term on the board will conclude in June 2025.

Peter is a director at Huron Consulting, and he has over 20 years of technology and management consulting experience across health care, higher education, and financial services. Peter specializes in leading complex and highly visible client engagements, including implementations of cloud-based ERP systems. He has a wide range of consulting experience, including technical management, mergers and acquisitions, application integration, architecture, and system and business process redesign.

Prior to joining Huron, Peter worked at Deloitte, where he led the HR Transformation Workday practice in its U.S. Delivery Centers. Prior to this role, he served as a program manager in the firm’s Oracle/Technology practice.

Peter has served as a board member and Finance Committee Chair for ISACA and its associated entities (the IT Governance Institute and CMMI Institute). ISACA is a global non-profit organization with 115,000 constituents in 180 countries that focuses on the development, adoption, and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information systems. In this role as Finance Chair, Peter was responsible for providing oversight of the annual budgeting process, financial results and investments, and submission of recommendations to the broader Board of Directors.

Peter is active in the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and is a NACD Board Leadership Fellow. Peter is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), and Project Management Professional (PMP).  He is also a member of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), PMI (Project Management Institute), ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives), SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management), the University of Miami’s Citizens Board, and the Banking & Finance and Technology Committees in the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.

Peter, who is originally from Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean, and his wife Sandra Parras (University of Miami, 1992), reside in Miami.