Title: President

Company: ACH Professional Services

Location: Florham Park, N.J.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Andrea Campanella Henrich grew up in a very uncommon home. Her father was born in Vietnam from an Italian-Vietnamese couple, and her mother was Argentinean, and they instilled within her the mind-set: “the use of your intellect is your only weapon to progress in life.” Discipline was very strict and there was no space for discussion, so she fell into the world of books, studying and concentration. One of Mrs. Campanella Henrich’s earliest memories about books was her father’s set of encyclopedias in different languages. She would take each of these volumes out of their individual spaces, try to understand the meaning, and compare the different writings.

Until the end of second grade, Mrs. Campanella Henrich attended an Italian school and changed to a Catholic private school, although home they spoke to each other freely in Spanish, French or Italian. The winter before seventh grade, her baby-brother was born. At that time, the Argentine economy entered into one of its many downward cycles, so her mother began to work in a library. This opportunity led her to many more books of different topics and languages. Mrs. Campanella Henrich also started to attend classes at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica, and spent 10 years of her life learning about several disciplines, methods, and cultures.

By the time she finished school, Mrs. Campanella Henrich became a music lover obsessive learner; she finished her degree in economics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1995. The following year in January, as soon as the opportunity appeared, she joined the consulting practice of Coopers & Lybrand in Argentina as an auditor when the “SAP boom” and the Y2K issue were demanding more consulting resources. However, even though that position was directly related to her career, Mrs. Campanella Henrich felt caught in a seven-column page, and needed more space to express the actual financial situation of a company, at that time.

As 2002 was coming to an end, Argentina was in another political and economical downturn, and the opportunity to have an experience abroad came up. Between October 2002 and June 2004, Mrs. Campanella Henrich worked in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on the most significant project of her professional career: designing and implementing a shared services center that could serve more than 10 countries in the areas of finance, accounting, supply chain and human resources. The project team was composed of 120 people from all across the Americas, speaking three different languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish. As soon as the first design phase was approved, the SAP implementation project, which aimed to support all the operations and reduce the information technology investment from 10 to only 1 SAP instance officially started. Mrs. Campanella Henrich was the project manager of this, which included the strategic direction of the initiative, direct contact with the top level management of the client, and handling change and risk management, and benefits realization.

By 2007 Mrs. Campanella Henrich’s husband and she decided they should permanently move to Brazil. There, her professional career flourished: bigger projects, bigger wins, more regional and global involvement, and more exposure to the global leaders. In Brazil, she grew as a sales professional, moved to solutions and sales, and began focusing on the distribution sector. After a couple of years, the outsourcing fever also reached its heating point in Latin America, so she joined this new, innovative and growing area in 2009. Acting as a sales executive, her role consisted of being the link between the client and the people working “behind the scenes,” building an outsourcing solution that meets all the client’s goals. In 2013, Mrs. Campanella Henrich and her family decided to move to the U.S.

Today, Mrs. Campanella Henrich now cares for her children, helping her husband face new challenges in his professional with support, as she also continues in her professional transition. She considers this her full-time job. And if anybody asks her, “What is your motivation to keep moving forward?” The answer is simple: she loves accomplishing goals and wants to go to bed with an empty To-Do list.