Sponsors are a key element of the success of Innovate@UCLA’s events. This year Innovate is happy to welcome Greg Geary as Sponsorship Vice-Chair for Innovate@UCLA events. Greg serves as Vice President IT at DigitalBridge a leading global digital infrastructure investment manager. With a heritage of over 25 years investing in and operating businesses across the digital ecosystem including towers, data centers, fiber, small cells, and edge infrastructure.
Greg is an experienced and highly technical IT leader with over 20+ years implementing IT initiatives, executing strategy and standards, and leading IT departments. He is passionate about transforming business through technology to improve revenue and the bottom line. Managed all functional areas of IT including application delivery and development, infrastructure, PMO, IT finance, compliance, and disaster recovery.
He managed up to 35 reports and managed budgets up to $35M for operational expenses and $36M in capital expenses. Experience working in a variety of industries including financial services (inc. alternative investments), entertainment, consulting, mortgage banking, utility, and aerospace. Able to effectively engage with a variety of audiences from technical engineers to C-suite. MBA from USC in Corporate Finance along with multiple current technical certifications.