Executive Board

Executive Leadership

Bhupesh Arora

Executive Chair

CTO, Howard Hughes

Beth Apillanes

Vice Chair

Manager, Service Delivery, Strategy & Operations (Enterprise Technology), Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)

Jim Rinaldi

Executive Director

Former CIO, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) & Senior Fellow, Avasant

Davida Johnson

Executive Sponsor

Executive Director, UCLA Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC)

Thomas Phelps

Immediate Past Chair

SVP & CIO, Laserfiche

Outreach

Lea Eriksen

Membership Chair

Director of Technology & Innovation and Chief Information Officer, City of Long Beach

Howard Miller

Membership Vice-Chair

CIO, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Greg Moore

Sponsorship Chair

VP, CIO, KB Home

Greg Geary

Sponsorship Vice-Chair

SVP & CIO, Whittier Trust Company

Doug Goetz

Governance Committee Chair

SVP, Operational Resilience & Compliance, Fox Corporation

Theresa Miller

WIT Committee Chair

Former CIO & EVP, Information Technology, Lionsgate

Andy Schlei

Executive Leadership Awards (ELA) Chair

Retired SVP, Information Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment & Avasant Fellow

Programs

Kevin Gray

Programs Vice-Chair

Chief Technology Officer, Metrolink / Southern California Regional Rail Authority

Joseph Cevetello

Programs Event Chair

Director Public and Social Impact, Slalom

Beth Apillanes

Overall Programs Chair

Manager, Service Delivery, Strategy & Operations (Enterprise Technology), Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)

Thomas Phelps

Chief Strategist & Gartner Events Chair

SVP & CIO, Laserfiche

Faculty & Campus Liaisons

Lucy Avetisyan

UCLA CIO

Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer, UCLA IT Services

Bill Goodin

Faculty Advisor (Samueli)

Faculty Advisor, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science

Heather Felix

Anderson Advisor

Program Director, UCLA Anderson’s Easton Technology Management Center

Members-at-Large

Rob Devers

Sponsorship Committee

VP & CIO, Majestic Realty Co.

Heidi Pease

WIT, Executive Leadership Awards (ELA) Committee

CEO, LA Blockchain Lab Wave Financial, Head of Special Operations

Michael Wang

Sponsorship Committee

CIO / CISO & Vice President, Digital Innovation, Epson America Inc.

Piper O'Brien

WIT Committee

Client Solutions Manager, iSpace

Man Jit Singh

Executive Leadership Awards (ELA) Committee

CEO, SR Labs, Inc.

Randi Levin

WIT Committee

Former CIO, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)

Tammy Choy

WIT Committee

Director of Cybersecurity, LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games

Beverly Macy

Executive Leadership Awards (ELA) Committee

Educator, UCLA

Trent Johnson

Industry/Academic Partnerships

Chief Strategy Officer, Cie

Melanie Hildebrandt

WIT, Industry/Academic Partnerships

EVP & CIO, Endeavor & TKO

Ghalib Kassam

Programs Committee

CIO, Los Angeles Times

Nyariana Maiko

CIO, Port of Long Beach

Administrative Support

Snezana Sibalic

Program Manager

UCLA/OARC