Mary Baumgartner

Mary Baumgartner is the Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Bowdoin College. Before joining Bowdoin, she was a partner at Garrand Mohlencamp, a communications firm in Maine, where she spearheaded strategy and account services for a wide range of clients, including local, national, and international firms. Mary also has extensive experience from her long tenure at HBO, where she worked in marketing, led an interactive team responsible for managing hbo.com, exploring interactive TV (for which her team won an Emmy!), and launching the network’s e-commerce business.

For over a decade, Mary has also served as a moderator for Collaborative Gain, where she facilitates a peer-learning executive council focused on enhancing leadership skills and business capabilities across industries. Mary holds a degree in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.

 

Michael Cato

Michael leads Bowdoin College's Information Technology (IT) strategy and operations through the Information and Technology department and has spent over 20 years in Higher Education IT. He previously served in IT roles at Vassar College, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michael is active in a number of professional organizations with an emphasis on leadership development, inclusive leadership, and aligning IT with strategic priorities. He is the 2022 Technology Executive of the Year – Education award winner from the IT Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), and the 2021 recipient of the EDUCAUSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Award.

Michael is faculty director for the Next Leaders Fellowship, a program that identifies, develops, and advocates for information and technology professionals in higher education, with a special emphasis developing leaders from historically excluded backgrounds. He is a faculty member of the Council of Australasian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) Leadership Institutes. Michael is a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), an EDUCAUSE Leading Change/Frye Fellow, and an alum of Leadership North Carolina. He previously served as a faculty member for the EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership and Management Programs, the State University of New York (SUNY) SAIL CIO Academy, and has served as a mentor in the EDUCAUSE Hawkins Leadership Roundtable.

Michael currently serves on the board for Educate Maine, the Seguinland Institute, an educational non-profit in Georgetown, Maine, and Bangor Savings Bank. He holds a B.S. in Zoology from Andrews University and an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University.

Michael loves to learn, read, eat, and occasionally cook, and starts most weekdays being humbled by CrossFit. He is raising an awesome son with his partner and wife Heather.

 

Keith ‘Mac’ McIntosh

Keith W. McIntosh is the Vice President (VP) for Information Services and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the University of Richmond.  Reporting to the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, he is responsible for the day-to-day management and strategic development of the University’s Information Services organization. He is a member of President's Cabinet where he provides advice and counsel to the President.   He works collaboratively with university leadership leveraging its collective knowledge and expertise to ensure that the University’s information technology investments remain ambitious, aligned with the institution’s strategic objectives, and committed to advancing the University's mission and vision.  

He served previously as the Associate Vice President for Digital Instruction and Information Services and CIO at Ithaca College. Prior to this he was the Vice Chancellor for Information Technology (IT) and CIO at Pima County Community College District and held various progressive leadership and management positions within IT during his distinguished 24.5 year service in the United States Air Force including a combat tour in Northern Iraq.   

Keith holds an MBA degree (Summa Cum Laude) with a concentration in Information Technology Management from Trident University International and a BS in Management Information Systems from Bellevue University.  Keith was in the Inaugural Cohort of the Institute for Leadership & Governance in Higher Education through the Association of Governing Boards (AGB) in 2019  He completed the Leading for Organizational Impact: The Looking Glass Experience (LOI) through the Center for Creative Leadership in 2016.  He is a 2012 Leading Change Institute (formerly Frye Leadership Institute) Fellow, CLIR/EDUCAUSE, 2012.  He completed his second year in the CIO Executive Council (CEC) - Pathways Leadership Development Program in June 2011. He is a 2009 EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership Program graduate.

Keith has been active in several higher education organizations. He served on the Advisory Board for the Center for Higher Education Chief Information Officer Studies (CHECS), Inc. from 2011 to 2018 and was its Chair from 2013 to 2015.  He is the first CIO to be selected to serve on the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) Board with a 3-year term that started on August 1, 2016. He was reappointed to serve a second 3-year term in 2019 and tapped to serve on the Executive Governance Committee.

His peers nominated and elected him to serve on the EDUCAUSE Board for a four-year term starting on October 30, 2017.  He currently serves as their Vice Chair.  Previously, he served as the EDUCAUSE Board Treasurer and chaired the Finance and Investment Committee for two years.  He also serves on The Leadership Board for CIO's. He has written or co-written articles for the EDUCAUSE Review and Business Officer Magazine. He served as Program Faculty for the EDUCAUSE Institute Management Program (2012-2014), a role he is doing again for the Online EDUCAUSE Managers Institute (2021).  Keith served on the 2018 EDUCAUSE Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion which put forth ten recommendations to EDUCAUSE leadership that, taken together, elevate attention to DEI as a critical and strategic issue.  The CIO Commitment was one of those recommendations and he was the 8th CIO to sign it.

He was recognized as the 2020 Capital CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Award Winner | Non-Profit Sector, for the Capital CIO Leadership Association.  He also made The 2020 Dean's List: 30 Higher Ed IT Influencers selected by Ed Tech Magazine. He was the inaugural recipient of the EDUCAUSE Rising Star Award in 2011. The Governor of Virginia appointed him to serve on the Virginia War Memorial Board starting July 1, 2017 and concluded February 29, 2020.  He is a skilled author and sought after speaker who has delivered opening and closing conference keynote addresses.

 

Jennifer Sparrow 

Jennifer Sparrow is the Associate Vice President for Research and Instructional Technologies and Chief Academic Technology Officer at NYU.  She previously worked as an Executive Education Advisor at AWS.  She was formerly the Deputy CIO and Associate Vice President for Teaching and Learning Technology (TLT) at Penn State. TLT works to help PSU faculty take advantage of information technology to enrich the educational experiences of their students and to champion the creative and innovative uses of technology for teaching, learning, and research. Prior to her work at PSU, she was Senior Director of Networked Knowledge Ventures and Emerging Technologies at Virginia Tech. 

For more than 20 years, Jennifer has championed the use of technology to engage students in the learning process. She has a passion for working with faculty to explore new technologies and their potential implementations in teaching and learning. She loves working with faculty who are willing to push the boundaries of the leading edge of technology in teaching, learning, and research. Her teaching and research projects included examining the convergence of technologies and learning spaces to create interactive and engaged learning opportunities. Jennifer's conversations around technology focuses on increasing digital fluency for students, faculty, and life-long learners. Jennifer received her bachelor's degree from Smith College, her master's degree from Florida Gulf Coast University, and doctorate from the University of Central Florida. Jennifer is the winner of the 2013 EDUCAUSE Rising Star Award.