Cheryl Lynn Baterna

As Director for IT Service Operations for Marymount Manhattan College, she served in various PM roles as an IT consultant and project lead to enable full potential implementation and adoptions of new and emerging technology. For over 15 years in Higher Ed, she loves working with the faculty and staff that challenge the technological needs of pedagogy to aligning with institutional strategies.  She also enjoys mentoring and developing future IT professionals in her team to be IT empowered lifelong learners.
 

Jeff Berliner

Jeff Berliner has served as the Chief Information Officer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ since 2007. In this role, he is privileged to manage a diverse and dynamic team of 25 staff and oversees all aspects of technology strategy, planning, policy, and service delivery for one of the world’s foremost centers of intellectual inquiry and theoretical research.

Before joining IAS, Jeff served as the Director of Systems for the NYU School of Medicine and the NYU Medical Center. In addition to these roles, Jeff has served as both Chair and Vice-chair of the NJ CIO Forum. He has chaired three visiting committees for the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute
and currently serves as a member of their IT Advisory Committee. Jeff has been a speaker and
moderator for many regional and national events including those for Educause, NJEdge and NJ Boys State, and currently serves as a mentor in the ACM’s SIGUCCS mentoring program.

On behalf of NERCOMP, Jeff is the Co-Chair of the Professional Development (PD) Committee and currently serves as chair of the Data Analysis Task Force. He has been a speaker and moderator for NERCOMP webinars, a facilitator for the NC20 and NC21 conferences, and a participant in Idea Planning Day. He served on the annual conference planning committee in 2021 and 2022, chairing the Systems and Solutions track, and is currently serving as Vice-Chair for the 2023 conference. Jeff is also the Institute for Advanced Study’s NERCOMP Institutional Representative.

Jeff holds a Master’s Degree in the Management of Technology from the NYU Polytechnic Institute (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University at Albany.

 

Erin DeSilva

Erin DeSilva is the Associate Provost of Digital and Online Learning at Dartmouth College. She works with a team of talented learning designers and educational technologists to support faculty in their course design as well as to manage the technology that helps facilitate student learning. Prior to joining Dartmouth in 2015, Erin worked as an Instructional Designer at Brown University and an Educational Technologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where her responsibilities included training and supporting faculty, designing and building courses, and other front-end infrastructure support. Erin has been involved in NERCOMP since 2009, facilitating SIG/Professional Development Opportunities and serving on the conference Program Committee, where she is currently vice-chair of the 2021 Annual Conference. She has led NERCOMP sessions on learning management systems, collaborative writing, assessment technologies, library/IT collaboration, and accessibility, among other topics. Erin is also a beneficiary of NERCOMP’s member services, and a strong believer in NERCOMP’s inspirational ability to lift up individuals while excelling in the innovation and important maintenance of the consortium.

Erin earned her Bachelor’s degree at Simmons College and her Master’s degree in Educational Media at Boston University. She lives in Norwich, VT, with her husband Jerry and children Ben and Josie. She owes so much to NERCOMP that she is thrilled to chair the 2022 Annual Conference and to serve on the Board.

Allison Dulin Salisbury

 Allison is an entrepreneur focused on building social impact companies. She is particularly interested in building companies that use AI to maximize human potential, especially for low opportunity learners and workers.

Allison spent four years building go-to-market teams at Guild, where she helped Fortune 500 partners such as Walmart, Disney, and JPMC put learning and career mobility at the center of their talent strategy. She served on the leadership team at Guild through a four year period of hyper growth and a Series F fundraise and $4.4 billion valuation.

Prior to Guild, she was a leader at Entangled, an edtech venture studio. At Entangled, she supported the launch of six new ventures with positive growth and/or exits. Entangled was acquired by Guild in 2020.

Previously, Allison held leadership roles at Edsurge, a vertical media business, and Davidson College, where she led strategic initiatives from the President’s Office. She started her career as a community organizer in the rural south with a focus on economic opportunity.

Allison is a mom of three -- Pax, Nora & Jack -- and lives in the Presidio of San Francisco with her husband Rex.