Anand Padmanabhan, vice president and chief information officer at Fordham University, is a global technology leader and a creative, strategic, and entrepreneurial chief information officer. He has led several organizations through digital transformation efforts, conceptualizing strategies and delivering platforms that align technology with business objectives. He has built a reputation for taking on transformative assignments that require collaborations across organizations, innovation, and decisive actions to achieve significant and impactful results. He has been a CIO at multiple universities, a global startup, and corporations.