Higher Education Chief Data Officers Working Group

The Higher Education Chief Data Officers (HE-CDO) group is focused on providing a supportive and collaborative environment for institutional chief data officers—and others who may not have that title but who have institution-wide responsibility for data and analytics—to share information and speak freely regarding news, issues, and concerns affecting data in higher education. This group is to be accessed by information professionals, and its resources are to be used for the benefit of institutional data and analytics programs.

Note: This group is by invitation only; please see the charterfor details about membership. If you are interested in the topic but do not meet the requirements to join this group, please consider subscribing to the Data Governance and Chief Data Officers Community Group.

 

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Adnan Ahmed

Director, Office of Institutional Analysis
Calgary, AB, CANADA
Committee Member: 2022-Present

Mark Albert

Chief Information Officer
Center Valley, PA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2019-Present

Jeremy Anderson

Vice President Learning Innovation, Analytics, and Technology
Longmeadow, MA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2019-Present

Yesim Askin

CDO
East Lansing, MI, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2018-Present

Melissa Barnett

Data Governance Manager
Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2020-Present

Karen Blackwell

Director Institutional Research and Enterprise Data Management
Greensboro, NC, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2023-Present

Kelly Briner

Director, Data Governance
Tempe, AZ, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Kathleen Broderick

Director, Enterprise Reporting & Analytics
New Haven, CT, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2022-Present

Jason Browning

Chief Data Officer
Bozeman, MT, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2024-Present

Kristin Buscher

Director of Analytics and Institutional Research
Omaha, NE, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2023-Present

San Cannon

AVP for Data Governance and Chief Data Officer
Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2018-Present

Kate Carruthers

Chief Data & Insights Officer
Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Ravneet Chadha

Chief Data Officer and Associate Vice President
Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2023-Present

Dan Cohen-Vogel

Consultant
Chapel Hill, NC, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2018-Present

Dave Dobis

Chief Data Officer
San Luis Obispo, CA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2018-Present

Brent Drake

Vice Provost for Decision Support
Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Katherine Draughon

Chief Data Officer
Evansville, IN, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Paul Evangelista

Chief Data Officer
West Point, NY, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2021-Present

Barbara Forth

CDO
Williamsburg, VA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2022-Present

Augie Freda

Campus Data Steward
Notre Dame, IN, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Ivana Fredotovic

Chief Data Officer
Ogden, UT, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2023-Present

Mark Freeman

Vice Provost, Planning and Institutional Research
Philadelphia, PA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2019-Present

Rana Glasgal

Vice Provost for Data & Analytics
Boston, THAILAND
Committee Member: 2023-Present

Michael Hansen

CDO
Corvallis, OR, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2021-Present

Marcela Hernandez

Chief Data Officer
Vancouver, BC, CANADA
Committee Member: 2022-Present

Roberta Hyland

Chief Data Officer
Herndon, Virginia, VA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2019-Present

Mike Kelly

Chief Data Officer
Columbia, SC, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2020-Present

Olivia Kew-Fickus

Chief Data Officer and Executive Director for Data & Strategic Analytics
Nashville, TN, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2023-Present

Skip Kirby

Committee Member: 2017-Present

Nelson Lee

Data Management Officer
Denton, TX, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2022-Present

Sharon Logan Neff

Associate CIO
Athens, GA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Kurt Lund

Data Management Officer
Houston, TX, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2021-Present

Dallas Maddox

Chief Data Officer
Jamaica, NY, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2021-Present

Greg Menzenski

Chief Data Officer, Asst Director, Office of Data Architecture & Analytics
Ithaca, NY, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Brian Morgan

VP Instituitional Research / CDO
Huntington, WV, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2023-Present

Amanda Moske

Chief Data Officer
Grand Forks, ND, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2022-Present

Beth Myers

Associate Vice Chancellor
Denver, CO, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2023-Present

Abhijit Pandit

Chief Data Officer
Portland, OR, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Betsy Reinitz

Staff Liaison
Director, CIO and Senior Technology Leaders Program
Washington, DC, UNITED STATES

Dawn Ressel

Sr. Director
Washington, DC, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Mitchel Rogers

Managing Director, Data Management Services
Cambridge, MA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2019-Present

Jelena Roljevic

Committee Member: 2017-Present

John Rome

Deputy CIO
Tempe, AZ, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2021-Present

Beth Ross

Dean of Institutional Effectiveness/Chief Data Officer
Boston, MA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2019-Present

Tracy Schroeder

Vice President, Information Services & Technology and Chief Data Officer
Boston, MA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2019-Present

Justin Sloan

Committee Member: 2017-Present

Rob Smith

Chief Information and Technology Officer (CITO)
East Stroudsburg, PA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Phebe Soliman

Dean, Insitutional Effectiveness
Randolph, NJ, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2022-Present

Scott Sorenson

AVP, Data Ops. & Bus. Transformations
Birmingham, AL, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Rooji Sugathan

Chair
Assistant Vice Chancellor
Saint Louis, MO, UNITED STATES

Matthew Turner

Chief Data Officer
Charleston, SC, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2018-Present

Suneetha Vaitheswaran

University Data Officer
Princeton, NJ, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2023-Present

Sari Vehtari

Head of CDO Office
Aalto, FINLAND
Committee Member: 2021-Present

Brad Weiner

Interim Chief Data Officer
Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2022-Present

Lisa Welch

University Data Officer and Sr. Director, Business Intelligence
Malibu, CA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Carrie White

VP Advancement Services, UC Foundation
Cincinnati, OH, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2021-Present

Ben Wiles

Chief Student Success & Empowerment Officer
Clemson, SC, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2023-Present

David Wright

Associate VP & Chief Data Officer
Wichita, KS, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2017-Present

Kristin Yates

Associate Vice President for Institutional Research and Chief Data Officer
Lincoln, NE, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2019-Present

Maliha Zaman

Exec. Dir of Institutional Effectiveness & Chief Data Officer
Roanoke, VA, UNITED STATES
Committee Member: 2021-Present