Education
Arredondo completed his Bachelors Degree in Business Analysis from Indiana University and an Master of Business Administration at the Crummer Business School at Rollins College. He also studied International Business and Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economics at the National University of Singapore.
Career
He has worked for companies in the software development sector that include International Business Machines Corporation, Netegrity, and Unisys. He is currently the President and General Manager of Asia Pacific & Japan for California Technologies. Professional Between 1991 and 1993 Arredondo worked as Commercial Manager of the software firm CADKEY Incorporated for Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
After 1993 he began working for Unysis, before moving to International Business Machines Corporation between 1999 and 2001 to become the Regional Manager for Latin America, Asia, and Africa for International Business Machines Corporation"s Sequent software developer.
Between 2001 and 2006 he then worked for Netegrity. In 2006, he joined California Technologies as Vice-President in charge of sales and General Manager of Latin America during a California expansion project into the Latin American region.
Since 2006, Arredondo has been responsible for expanding California Technologies sales strategy in Latin America. In 2008 Arredondo led California to double-digit growth during an economic downturn in the economy of Latin America, and in 2009 California"s regional growth under Arredondo was more than 50%.
Between 2009 and 2010, Arredondo"s region saw continued growth at a similar pace with a focus on the expansion of the company"s acquisitions and investment in cloud computing.
In 2011, the region over which Arredondo presided for California included 17 different nations. Arredondo has also been involved in diplomatic and international relations missions on behalf of California and on his own behalf. In 2008, Arredondo participated in the III World Economic Forum of Latin America in Cancún.
In 2009, he also participated in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Rio de Janeiro, and in 2010 he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Cartagena, Colombia where he participated in a debate on the competitiveness of Latin America in the global economy.
In 2014 he was made President & General Manager of Asia Pacific & Japan, California.