Advisory Board

Our advisory board comprises highly respected leaders from industry, academia, and government, representing a broad range of organizations.

The board helps provides critical guidance and feedback to ensure courses and programs reflect state-of-the-art computing technology. The board also plays a fundamental role in graduating students who are well-prepared to meet the workforce needs of the future.

Board Chair

  • Richard Jacik, Senior Vice President/Chief Digital Officer, Brillient Corp

Board Members

  • Alexander Wolf, Dean, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

  • Andrew Cunje, Chief Information Security Officer, Appian

  • Bob Zarnich, Chief Engineer, Metron

  • Brian Coughlin, Distinguished Solutions Engineer, Salesforce

  • Charles Fuller, Global Cloud Certification Team Manager, eGlobalTech

  • Chris McFadden, Chief Technology Officer, Quorum

  • Dana Morris, Senior Vice President, Product and Engineering, Virtru

  • Dennis Pereira, Engineer, QinetiQ

  • Huzefa Rangwala, Senior Applied Science Manager, AWS

  • Joel Nylund, Chief Executive Officer, Solution Street

  • Niraj Verma, Senior Implementation Specialist, Apex Analytix

  • Phani Chilakapati, Global Data Architecture Leader, Industrial Scientific

  • Swetha Chinta, ERP Cloud Developer, Caesars Entertainment