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About Aniedo · El Paso, Texas

Close to the operation. Accountable for the work.

Aniedo is led by Managing Principal Valerie Chikwendu, a former operations and supply chain leader at Johnson & Johnson. Based in El Paso, Texas, Aniedo serves manufacturers, healthcare organizations, and acquisition teams nationwide.

Who we are

A note from the
Managing Principal.

On solving problems for a living

Spend enough time inside large organizations solving critical problems, and you start recognizing patterns that others miss. Red flags show up early. Dependencies that look invisible become obvious. And the difference between a plan that will hold and one that only looks right on paper becomes visible before the work begins. Do this long enough and you become a well-seasoned baloney spotter, catching the canaries in the coal mine long before others do.

That is what 10+ years inside global pharmaceutical and medical device operations looks like in practice. My experience ranges from building program offices from scratch to running supply chain operations supporting a 50,000-person division and serving over 150,000 customers. Roles in technology, business development, and commercial functions round out that experience, along with two degrees in computer science and current expertise in AI. All of it required getting to the real problem fast and staying accountable until it was solved.

Through Aniedo, I bring that same standard to every engagement: senior-level work, delivered directly and in collaboration with your teams. When the work calls for it, I draw on a vetted network of operational and technical experts, such as specialists in manufacturing automation, sterility assurance, or combination product compliance, and we stay until the problem is resolved.

Valerie Chikwendu
Managing Principal  ·  Aniedo
Former affiliations
Cornell University Johnson & Johnson GE Capital Thomson Reuters
Enterprise Leadership
Trusted to drive complex initiatives with global teams across supply chain, operations, technology, quality & regulatory compliance, and commercial functions, delivering results in highly matrixed organizations.
Global Business Experience
Deep business and operational experience working across North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States.
Valerie Chikwendu, Managing Principal, Aniedo
Credentials & Qualifications
MBA
Master of Business Administration
Cornell University
MS
M.Sc. Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
BS
B.Sc. Computer Science
University of Nigeria
6σ
Six Sigma Certification
Villanova University
EC
Executive Certificate: Manufacturing in a Global Network
INSEAD  ·  Fontainebleau, France
EC
Executive Certificate: Driving Performance through Talent Management
Harvard Business School  ·  Boston, USA
Most Recent Continued Education
No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions
MIT Professional Education
Generative AI and Agents for Software Development
UT Austin Professional Education
Perspectives

Thinking about
the work.

Operations & Risk

Operating Through Trade Volatility

Large organizations are cruise ships. Small firms are speedboats. One trades speed for stability. The other trades stability for speed. Lessons from working with businesses through recent tariff disruption.

Technology & AI

The San Francisco Consensus Isn't Always Right

Just like the dot-com era, Silicon Valley is often right about some things and woefully wrong about others. We owe it to ourselves to view the AI consensus with the deja vu of one who has been here before.

More writing

Operations. Risk. The work behind the work.

Articles on supply chain, talent, strategy, and what running complex organizations actually looks like.

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