Meet Our Leadership Team
Introducing our Informtion Technology Services leadership team, the visionary leaders steering our digital transformation. United in driving forward a digital landscape that serves the campus community, they exemplify leadership that is both transformative and rooted in our shared values.
The CIO Organization
Lucy Avetisyan
Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer (CIO)
lucyavetisyan@ucla.edu
Veronica Garcia
Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO)
veronica.garcia@ucla.edu
Jennifer Ferry
Associate Chief Information Officer, Strategy, Planning & Operations (ACIO)
jennifer.ferry@ucla.edu
Drake Chang
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
drake@it.ucla.edu
Chris Mattmann
Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAIO)
chris.mattmann@ucla.edu
The DCIO Organization
Hilda Duggan
Executive Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics
hduggan@it.ucla.edu
Ilana Intonato
Executive Director, Academic Technology
iintonato@ucla.edu
Kamran Khairzad
Executive Director, Business Information Technology
kkhairzad@it.ucla.edu
Mikel Etxeberria
Director, Digital Foundry
mikel.etxeberria@ucla.edu
Jon Crumpler
Executive Director, Customer Success
crumpler@ucla.edu
Joe Way
Executive Director, Digital Spaces
josiahway@ucla.edu
Leom Holley
Assistant Chief Information Officer, Infrastructure Services
leom.holley@ucla.edu
Valerie Vahling
Executive Director, Technology Operations
valerie.vahling@ucla.edu
The ACIO Organization
Gabe Shamoun
Director, Enterprise Program Management Office
gshamoun@it.ucla.edu
Arrin Renchie-Thomas
Director, Organizational Change Management Center of Excellence
arenchie-thomas@it.ucla.edu
Cole Meneses
Director, IT Finance
n.meneses@ucla.edu
In Recruitment
Chief Administrative Officer
The ACIO Organization: Digital Campus Leads
Mark DeMaio
Program Director, Ascend
mdemaio@it.ucla.edu
Jeff Bishop
OCM Director, Ascend
jbishop@it.ucla.edu
Ming Fu
Program Director, FACET
mfu@it.ucla.edu
Heather Healy
Program Director, Security & Network
hhealy@it.ucla.edu
Randy Rogers
OCM Director, FACET
rrodgers@it.ucla.edu
Mindy Clifford
OCM Director, Security and Network Transformation
mclifford@it.ucla.edu
Murphy Freelen
Lead, Digital Innovation Studio & Partnerships
mfreelen@it.ucla.edu
The CISO Organization
In Recruitment
Assistant Chief Information Security Officer
Mona Zarei
Director, Identity & Access Management
monaz@ucla.edu
Ernesto Carrasco
Director, Information Security Governance, Risk Management, & Compliance
ernestocarrasco@ucla.edu
Chris Stromsoe
Principal Information Security Architect
cbs@ucla.edu
