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HEDW Executive Board

Executive Officers

President

Dave Baugh

Deputy CIO

University of Louisville

david.baugh@louisville.edu

Secretary

Reena Khosla

Director, Data Warehouse Design and Development

Kansas State University

reenak@ksu.edu

Treasurer

Sherri Flaks

IT Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics

Johns Hopkins University

sflaks@jhu.edu

Past President

Patricia White

Associate Provost, Institutional Research and Strategic Analytics

Belmont University

patricia.white@belmont.edu

communications Chair

Christian Sobek

Data Governance Coordinator

University of Minnesota

sobek006@umn.edu


Chairs

conference Chair 2026

  Rainbow Di Benedetto

  Director, Functional Team, Data to Insights Initiative

  University of Texas - Austin

  rainbow@austin.utexas.edu


  Program Chair 2025



Executive Board Members at Large

Nadya Balabanova

Data Warehouse Systems Analyst

University of California - Irvine

nbalaban@hs.uci.edu

Meghal Parikh

Director of Enrollment Research and Analytics
Office of the Vice President
Division of Enrollment Management
University of Florida

meghalparikh@ufl.edu

Michael Neuman

Senior Director, Data Engineering & Analytics

Center for Data, Analytics and Reporting

Princeton University

michael.neuman@princeton.edu


Ravneet Chadha

Chief Data Officer and VP for Enterprise Planning

University of Utah

ravneet.chadha@utah.edu

Saleha Rizvi

Associate Director of Business Systems

University of Illinois Chicago

srizvi1@uic.edu

Past Conference Chair

Nick Chaviano

Director Data Services

Georgia Institution of Technology

nick.chaviano@gatech.edu