Daren Hubbard is currently Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice President for computing and information technology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Wayne State University is a large urban research university with the largest single campus medical school in the United States. In his role as CIO, Mr. Hubbard is responsible for the university’s computing and networking facilities, datacenter operations, enterprise software applications, learning management environments, high-performance research computing, voice services, information security, and information technology support services. With over 20 years of experience in higher education leadership, Daren has expertise in application development, project management and mobile technology. He has led many successful development teams winning national recognition for several of those efforts. Mr. Hubbard and the IT organization are presently helping drive Wayne State forward to support its urban research university mission, by working with the campus to provide a superior technology experience to students, faculty, staff and other constituents. Daren is a certified project manager and holds a B.A from the University of Michigan, and an M.L.I.S. and M.B.A. both from Wayne State University.