Information Systems & Analytics Area - Board of Advisors

The Information Systems & Analytics Area is comprised of the Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems programs. The industry-ready curriculum is guided by an Advisory Board of distinguished leaders across multiple disciplines, ensuring students receive the skills and opportunities needed to succeed after graduation.

Financial Services

  • Siddhartha Dalal, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University

  • Bob Das, Global Head of Enterprise Consulting & Architecture Governance, Munich Re

  • Venu Guntupalli, Senior Director Analytics, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service

  • Wayne Huang, Head of Data Science, Pacific Life

  • Caolan Kovach-Orr, Vice President - Intelligent Automation Strategic Analytics North America, Arch Insurance Group Inc.

  • Sandeep Sacheti, Co-founder, Editlingo Solutions

  • Farhan Shah, CEO, Trivora Insurance Services

Industry/Services

  • Rishikesh Bhosale, Head of Data and AI, Hartree Partners

  • Portia Crowe, Chief Data Strategist, Accenture Federal Services, Arlington, VA

  • Ram Iyer, Managing Director, Financial Services, Ernst & Young

  • Tom Kielty, Director, President and CEO, Connectivity

  • Mohammad Nikouei, Principal Data Scientist, Dun & Bradstreet

  • Anne Robinson, Chief Strategy Officer, Kinaxis

  • Patricia Saporito, CEO, Digital Business Creations

  • Kevin Schwesinger, Managing Partner, PRI Technology

  • Vibhuti Ranjan Singh, Founder & Product Partner, Product Advisors

  • Prakash Upadhyayula, CIO, ADP

IT/Software Services

  • Katherine Dwyer, Global Managing Director - MetLife, IBM

  • Todd Friedman, Shopping Product Lead, Emerging Artificial Intelligence/Gen AI Solutions, Google

  • Winter Mason, Data Scientist, Meta

  • Michael Michelini, Vice President, Information Technology, Cadent

  • Venkat Mukkamala, Director, Corporate Reporting and Analytics, Google

  • Catherine Truxillo, Director, Analytical Education in the Education Division, SAS

  • Peter Ward, CEO, SoHo Dragons

Life Sciences

  • Demissie Alemayehu, VP, Head Statistical Research and Data Science, Pfizer

  • Rupinder Bhullar, Director, Digital Enterprise Automation Services, Pfizer

  • Trish Bousfield, CIO, Hikma Pharmaceuticals

  • Garrett Goodwin, Regulatory AI Strategist, Pfizer

  • Sanjiv Koshal, Head of Data Engineering and Operations, Johnson & Johnson

  • Marcia Levenstein, Senior Advisor. Vivli

Media/Communications

  • Andreas Damianou, Chief, UN Webcast, News and Media Division, United Nations

  • Matthew Don, Chief Innovation Officer, Doremus

  • Tom Kielty, Chairman & CEO, NeXtworX Group

  • Mehul Trivedi, Group Vice President Technology, Wiley

Telecommunications

  • Forough Ghahramani, Associate VP for Research, Innovation, Sponsored Programs, EDGE

  • Anand Rai, Principal Engineer/ AI Product Lead , Verizon Wireless

  • Richard Stemper, Associate Director of Data Warehousing and BI, Verizon Wireless

Academic

  • Chris Asakiewicz, BI&A Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology

  • Siddhartha Dalal, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University

  • Ted Stohr, Emeritus Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology