Continental Who's Who

Dianne Andrade

Dianne Andrade is recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Lifetime Member in the field of Financial Planning. Andrade’s professional title is Vice President of Financial Planning at Pearson Education, which specializes in educational services. Her areas of expertise include reporting, budgeting, managing a team and forecasting, and she brings 20 years of career experience to her role. “We’re the world’s learning company, with 35,000 employees across 70 countries worldwide,” Pearson’s website states. “Our unique insight and world-class expertise comes from our long history of working closely with teachers, learners, researchers, authors and thought leaders.

Our products and services are used by millions of teachers and learners around the world every day.” In her role, Andrade was “promoted to expand the scope of responsibility for the entire Higher Education North America Sales organization, Pearson Education’s largest division, with $1.8B revenue and $145M operating expense management.” She “led a team of ten finance professionals” and was “accountable for revenue and expense management for 1,000- plus sales individuals,” “managed vendor relations within the sales organization with up to $250,000 in spending” and “increased the efficiency, control and reporting of multiple spend categories.”

Andrade earned her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Business from Drew University. To further her professional development, she is a member of the National Association of Professional Women, and is the VP of Elizabeth Portuguese Lions’ Club. Andrade cites Jeff Walsh as her professional mentor. When not working, Andrade enjoys spending time with her family and traveling, particularly to Florida and internationally to Portugal. She dedicates this recognition to her husband, Ramiro; and her sons, Daniel and Hunter. For more information, visit www.pearson.com.