Biography

Dr. Vince Kellen currently serves as the chief information officer for the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), as well as a member of the Chancellor's Cabinet, and vice chancellor and chief financial officer's senior management team. UCSD is recognized as a top 15 university world-wide and 7th best public university in the world, with over $1 billion in annual research funding, 34,000 students, 16 Nobel laureates who have taught on its campus and 161 faculty with national Academy memberships. Dr. Kellen was previosly Senior Vice Provost & CIO at University of Kentucky and CIO at DePaul University. 

Dr. Kellen is a recipient of the coveted CIO Magazine “Top 100” award in 2007 and 2014, was one of InformationWeek’s “Chiefs of the Year” in 2013, received the Computerworld “Honors Laureate” award in 2013, and was one of four recipients selected globally for Dell’s 2012 “Transformational CIO” award. Dr. Kellen is a Fellow with Cutter Consortium, a leading IT industry think tank. He writes on digital transformation and data and analytics topics and is a a Cutter Consortium Summit speaker. Before his tenure in higher education, Dr. Kellen was an IT strategy consultant working with Fortune 500 firms on marketing and CRM digital transformations. Dr. Kellen has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on IT strategy and enterprise systems at DePaul University and University of Kentucky. Dr. Kellen served as a consultant in industry advising fortune 500 clients on IT strategy, customer and marketing strategies, analytics and data warehousing.

He earned his Ph.D. in computer science, an M.S. degree in information systems, and a B.A. degree in communications from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.