CIO & VP for Information Technology Services, California State University, San Bernardino
Sudhakar provides leadership to Academic, Administrative, Infrastructure Technologies, and Information Security and Compliance initiatives. Since joining CSUSB in 2013, Sudhakar has turned IT Services into a proactive, customer-centric division with priority on providing world-class customer services to students, faculty and staff, fostering and supporting faculty led innovation, and improving operational efficiency in all areas of university operations. Previously, under his leadership as CIO, Carl Sandburg College was ranked first in the nation for digital technology by the Center for Digital Education, and has been named among the top 10 in that category from 2006 to 2013. Sudhakar was named among the top 50 educational technology innovators in 2011 by Converge Magazine. He holds a PhD in business administration from Northcentral University, an MBA from St. Joseph’s University, and a BS in engineering from Bharathiar University in India.