San Francisco CIO Community

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today.

Accelerating High Growth and Digitally-Driven Outcomes
Thriving through Volatility - Empowering People, Resiliency and Insights
Orchestrating Change - Influencing Culture and Creating Value

San Francisco CIO Governing Body

A regional Governing Body leads the San Francisco CIO community, shaping the topics and agendas for your local programs and ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.

Co-Chairs

Opinder Bawa

University of San Francisco
VP & CIO

Kevin Cornish

Covered California
Chief Information Officer

Amy Farrow

Lyft
Chief Information Officer

Monica Khurana

Dodge & Cox
Chief Technology Officer

Geeta Pyne

Intuit
Chief Enterprise Architect

Avi Sokol

KLA
CIO

Evan Wayne

World Market
CIO

Members

Srilekha Akula

Change Healthcare
VP of R&D

Brian Alikhani

International Union Of Operating Engineers
Chief Information Officer

Bill Allison

University of California - Berkeley
CTO

Ahsan Baig

AC Transit
CIO

Kim Barrier

Amy's Kitchen
Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Sashi Binani

Dropbox
Head of IT

Andrew Bray

Renesas Electronics
Vice President, Global Information Technology

Herman Brown

City and County of San Francisco, CA
CIO

Ken Cushman

Pinterest
Chief Information Officer

Hira Dangol

Bank of America
Vice President, Technology Platform - AI/ML and Automation

Lisa Davis

Blue Shield of California
SVP & CIO

Christopher Desautel

Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
Chief Digital Officer

Jae Sook Evans

Oracle
CIO

Abbas Faiq

Imperva
Chief Information Officer

Linda Gerull

City and County of San Francisco, CA
CIO

Jay Ghosh Dastidar

VSP Global
Sr. Global Director of Technology

Jon Gjestvang

Napa County, CA
CIO

Mike Heuer

Legence
Chief Information Officer

Arthur Hu

Lenovo
SVP & Global CIO

Rohit Jain

iRhythm Technologies
VP, Technology, Applications and Analytics

Datta Junnarkar

The Boeing Co
CIO - Maritime

Kishore Kondragunta

Woven by Toyota
VP, Head of IT

Dan Krantz

Keysight Technologies
Chief Information Officer

Jonas Kriks

ATEL Capital Group
CIO

Sudhir Kumar

The Wine Group
Chief Technology Officer

Praveen Madhavankutty

The Save Mart Companies
CIO

Sharon Mandell

Juniper Networks
Senior VP & Chief Information Officer

Liza Massey

Marin County, CA
Chief Information Officer

Erik Molitor

Bio-Rad Laboratories
VP, CIO

Sidharth Mukherjee

Teleperformance
Chief Digital Officer

Amith Nair

Vituity
CIO

Balaji Padmanaban

ZoomInfo
VP, Enterprise Technology

Audrey Parks

Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System
Chief Information Officer

Anne Marie Richard

University of California - Berkeley
Associate CIO and Director of Student Affairs IT

Michael Robinson

Shutterfly
Chief Information Officer

Paul Robles

Stanford University
CIO, R&D Enterprises

Ashish Sarkar

Owen's & Minor
CIO

Pranav Shahi

Atlassian
VP, Head of IT

Joti Sidhu

Blackhawk Network
Head of Corporate Technology

Sriram Sitaraman

Synopsys
Chief Information Officer

Allan Smith

Peet's Coffee & Tea
CIO

Thomas Squeo

Intrado Inc.
Chief Technology Officer

Sree Sreedhararaj

Sephora
Chief Technology Officer

Sanjay Srivastava

Genpact
Chief Digital Officer

Srini Tanikella

SGH Corp
Vice President Information Technology

Dominic Titcombe

Delta Dental
CIO at Delta Dental of California

Kiran Vankamamidi

Driscoll's
Group Vice President and CIO

Anisha Vaswani

Toast
Chief Information Officer

Dilip Venkatachari

U.S. Bank
Global CIO & CTO

Milind Wagle

Equinix
EVP & CIO

Dave Weinmeister

Foster Farms
CIO

Patrick Wilson

Contra Costa Health Services
CIO & CISO

Peter Young

Granite Construction
Chief Enterprise Architect

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SUE LIDERTH, CIO, EMEA
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY

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MANFRED BOUDREAUX-DEHMER, CIO
NATO

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RHONDA GASS, VP & GLOBAL CIO
STANLEY BLACK & DECKER

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Upcoming Programs

VIRTUAL

June 21, 2023 | 1 hour

San Francisco CIO Town Hall

Successfully Managing Digital Operations

An interactive, peer-led discussion on current topics and priorities.

August 23, 2023 | an evening

San Francisco CIO Inner Circle

The Hemlock

A gathering with peers to discuss timely topics over dinner in a private setting.

November 9, 2023 | 1 day

San Francisco CIO Executive Summit

Parc 55

Walk away from this peer-led program with new connections and with actionable insights.

Content from your CIO peers

BLOG | JUNE 7, 2023

Business Leaders Find High Value in Executive Summits

C-level executives are leading through economic uncertainty and a volatile business environment. It seems that there has never been a better time for executives to get together with peers and collaborate on shared challenges. At the start of our Executive Summit season, we’ve seen participation increase 40% over last year – discover why.

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TOWN HALL INSIGHTS | JUNE 7, 2023

Integrating Threat Hunting in Your Multi-Layered Defense Strategy

Advanced threats take up valuable time and manpower for IT and security teams, so what can CIOs and CISOs do to manage threat intelligence? CIOs and CISOs in Seattle gathered to discuss how to protect their organizations from vulnerabilities, build a threat-hunting roadmap, and provide visibility about threats internally. These are their takeaways.

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BLOG | MAY 29, 2023

Navigating the Digital Future to Accelerate Transformation

Across our CIO and CISO communities, executives report that digital business and data and analytics are within their top 10 objectives, with digital talent closely behind. CIOs and CISOs in the Vancouver, BC community gathered recently at an Inner Circle Dinner to discuss the vital role data plays in the digital age – these are their takeaways.