Tina Vidal-Duart

Tina Vidal-Duart is an industry expert in healthcare management, start-ups, corporate restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. She currently serves as the CEO of CDR Health Care, Inc. and Executive Vice President of CDR Companies, Inc., providing operational oversight and leadership to the 85-year-old engineering, emergency management, and disaster health and medical consulting firm that serves multiple state and local governments. At the beginning of the pandemic, Vidal-Duart served as the Chief Executive Officer of the State of Florida COVID-19 Infectious Disease Field Hospital System. 

In her prior experience in healthcare, she was the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Business Development with Pacer Health Corporation and ran a Pacer transportation and logistics subsidiary. Additionally, Vidal-Duart helped found and manage ML Management Group, a sports agency that manages UFC and mixed martial arts fighters. 

Vidal-Duart has been a Florida Grand Opera (FGO) board member since 2019 and also sits on the FIU Foundation Board of Directors. She and her husband recently named the Wine Program at the FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality- the Vidal-Duart Wine Studies Program. 

Vidal-Duart was recently nominated to serve on the Board of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust and serves on the board of Hope Florida Foundation, a DSO for the Department of Children and Families. She was nominated to serve as a Commissioner for the Florida Commission on the Status of Women, a position she held until December 2023. She is a former member of YPO and was Chairwoman of the FIU Honors College Advisory Board from 2011 through 2016. She has served on several councils and boards at FIU and nationally for Strong Women, Strong Girls.  

She has a Master’s in International Business, summa cum laude, and a Bachelor of International Business and Marketing, magna cum laude.