MSIS Advisory Council

Advisory Councils keep us actively engaged with industry leaders and experts, who bring their real-world experience to help shape what students learn, match classroom lessons to real-world needs, and widen the pipeline for internship and job opportunities.

Norma McCowin – Chair
Senior Director, Program Delivery
Kaiser Permanente

Matt Gilbert – Co-chair
Principal
Baker Tilly

Alex Attumalil
Global CISO & VP
Under Armour

Kapil Bakshi
Senior Director & Distinguished Engineer, Office of CTO
Cisco

Don Barber
Sr. Solutions Architect Mgr., Strategic Accounts
Amazon Web Services

Lauren Craig
Vice President
IBM

Ankita Darda
Senior Product Manager
Salesforce

Nikhil Deshmukh
Global Enterprise Software Asset Manager
Meta

Catherine "Katie" Dodson
Senior Manager
Hive Systems

Mahendra Durai
SVP & CTO
Hearst Corporation

Shayan Hobbi
Senior Manager, Health Analytics
Accenture

Jeffrey Hollingsworth
CIO
UMD

Lauren Holmes
Chief Information Officer
Majesco

Bryan Kissinger
Vice President, CISO
Trace3

Diane Levin
CIO
McCormick & Company

Cj Li
Chief of Staff & COO, Data Science Solutions
Blend360

Marcela Lopez
Head of Global Transfer Pricing & Controversy
PayPal Inc.

Ankit Mangal
Director
Wayfair

Gaurang Manjrekar
Technical Program Manager
Amazon

Stuart McGuigan
Senior Advisor & Serial CIO
McKinsey

Rachel Michele
CTO & Founder
Arjuna Solutions

John “JT” Miller
Operations Research/Systems Analyst
United States Cyber Command (Resources and Capabilities Directorate)

Corbin Neiberline
Partner
KPMG

Rena Nigam
Founder & CEO
Meytier Inc

Prachiti Phadke
Product Manager
Capital One

Sindhu Rajan
Vice President
Hughes

Josh Rosenthal
Chief Customer Officer
BoostSecurity.io

Ishwarya Sethuraman
Manager, Cybersecurity & Privacy
PwC

Keyur Shah
Principal Product Manager
Opendoor

Miao Song
Chief Information Officer
GLP

Rahul Srivastava
Principal Product Manager
Amazon

Darien Tillinghast
Vice President
Deloitte

Jared Townshend
Managing Director
Deloitte

Nicol Turner-Lee
Senior Fellow - Governance Studies; Director - CTI
Center for Technology Innovation, The Brookings Institution

Brian Wilkinson
Principal, Cyber Security
EY

Jackie (Huixian) Xu
Director Of Business Operations
Technology Transformation Services (TTS)

Suhas Yerra
SVP & CIO
USAA

Peyman Yousefian
Director, Data Science
Humana

Syed K. Zaidi
Chief Executive Officer
System Pavers