Vince Kellen

Dr. Vince Kellen currently serves as the chief information officer for the University of California, San Diego. UC San Diego is recognized as a top university world-wide with an $8 billion budget, $1.7 billion in annual research funding, 44,000 students, 16 Nobel laureates who have taught on its campus and 161 faculty with national Academy memberships. Dr. Kellen is a 2019 CIO Hall of Fame inductee, a three-time recipient of the CIO 100 award in 2007, 2014 and 2020, one of Information Week's CIO's of the year in 2013. He has authored more than 200 industry articles and speaks at international and national venues on strategic IT topics. Dr. Kellen was invited to join the Cutter Consortium, a premier information technology industry think-tank of 150 experts from across the world, both as a fellow and senior consultant. Dr. Kellen also was an instructor at the University of Kentucky’s College of Communications and at DePaul University’s College for Computing and Digital Media, where he taught classes on IT and strategy, enterprise architecture and distributed systems. Dr. Kellen contributed in an advisory capacity for key organizations in higher education, including Educause, Internet2, and the APLU (Association of Public and Land-grant Universities). He has also served on advisory boards to top IT companies such as Dell, SAP, Microsoft, AT&T, and Apple and was on 1EdtTech's Board of Directors from 2016-2024. Prior to joining UC San Diego, Dr. Kellen had served as CIO at University of Kentucky and DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Before entering higher education, Dr. Kellen was an IT and strategy consultant and has worked in various industries, most notably consumer packaged goods, oil and gas and manufacturing.