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Leadership

The UIT Leadership Team comprises CIO Steve Gallagher and the leaders of the eight units that report directly to him.

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Steve Gallagher

Chief Information Officer

Steve Gallagher is the Chief Information Officer of Stanford University. He leads University IT, a world-class technology services organization that partners with faculty, students, staff, and alumni to advance the teaching, learning, research, and healthcare mission. UIT manages Stanford’s enterprise business applications, collaboration technology, data warehouse, business intelligence, network engineering, telecommunications, web services, client services, and advancement systems. He jointly leads the Information Security Office and the Research Computing group.

Steve serves as a member of the University Cabinet and on the SLAC National Laboratory Board of Overseers Committee on Business, Technology, Audit and Compliance. He also co-chairs the Stanford CIO Council which is comprised of Stanford’s technology leaders from across campus. Steve reports to the Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer.

Steve previously served as the CIO of the Harvard Business School and as CIO of the University of San Francisco. Before his time in higher education, he served in executive leadership roles in the venture capital and financial technology sectors in San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

Steve has a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Sylvie Cosgrove

Executive Director for IT Infrastructure

Sylvie Cosgrove is executive director for IT Infrastructure in University IT, overseeing all enterprise on-premise data center and technical facilities; networking; and communication technologies and services. In particular, she provides strategic and operational direction to UIT’s workgroups for Stanford’s three primary administrative data centers and hosting services, Stanford Network (SUNet), Stanford Voice and Video Infrastructure, Systems and Services, and UIT's business continuity and disaster recovery planning and process coordination. Her oversight also includes telephony, contact center, and critical messaging services for the university, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and Stanford Healthcare.

Sylvie joined Stanford in June 2019, with more than 30 years of experience in technology, manufacturing, and healthcare. She served as head of IT at Cloudflare, a global web optimization and security services company, where she led initiatives to transform the IT organization, infrastructure and enterprise systems to ensure a successful path to the initial public offering. She has also held technology leadership positions at NEC Electronics, Agilent, Advantest, Acadia Healthcare, and Google, where she drove digital and operational  transformations to enable business goals.  

In addition to her role at Stanford, Sylvie chairs the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC), a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance education and research by providing a world-class network essential for innovation, collaboration and economic growth. Sylvie is an alumna of San Jose State University.

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Brad Immanuel

Executive Director for Client Experience & Solutions

Brad Immanuel is the Executive Director for Client Experience & Solutions (CXS), a senior role on the UIT leadership team. CXS is the face of UIT services, helping Stanford University and Stanford Medicine clients acquire and use technology successfully.

CXS teams span many functions, including solution-building teams (Endpoint Engineering and Development, Stanford Web Services, the Technology Consulting Group, Client Infrastructure Services Group, Card Services, Technology Training, and the Office of Digital Accessibility), as well as end-user services teams (UIT Service Desk, Healthcare Account Team, Computer Resource Consulting, Mobile Device Services, Paging Services, the Stanford University Hardware Program, and Cardinal Print, and two 24/7 teams: Operator Services Center and IT Operations Center).

Brad joined Stanford in 2011. He previously served in several positions at UCSF, including IT director for the Department of Anesthesia. Prior to joining academia, he worked as an IT manager at the Center for Citizen Initiatives in San Francisco, providing economic development programs to former Soviet republics shortly after the Cold War.

Brad received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Pepperdine University.

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Ganesh Karkala

Associate Vice President for Enterprise Technology

Ganesh is the Associate Vice President for Enterprise Technology. He is responsible for the implementation and support of the core administrative applications and systems that run the business of the University. In addition to supporting the major enterprise systems (financials, HR, student records, research administration, alumni and donor), Ganesh partners with schools and business units to identify and implement efficient, cost-effective IT solutions. Learn more about Enterprise Technology.

Ganesh has more than 20 years of experience leading technology operations and initiatives across large-scale, complex organizations, both in the US and internationally. His expertise spans application development, infrastructure management, program office management, mergers and acquisitions, and prudent application of business and technology standards such as COBIT, ITIL, and PMBOK.

Ganesh joined Stanford as the Director of Financial Systems in 2006. In 2007 he became the Executive Director of Administrative Systems and was promoted to Associate Vice President in 2009. Prior to Stanford, Ganesh was the Senior Director for Technical Services at Oracle USA. At Oracle, he managed large-scale development projects and programs, including Oracle’s Global Single Instance technical consolidation program, which resulted in $2 billion in savings for the company.

Ganesh has a Bachelor of Science in Instrumentation Technology from the University of Mysore and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University.

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Ruth Marinshaw

Chief Technology Officer, Research Computing

Ruth Marinshaw is CTO for Research Computing at Stanford University, leading the Stanford Research Computing Center (SRCC). Jointly reporting to the Dean of Research and the Stanford CIO, Ruth and the SRCC team engage with researchers and technologists across a wide spectrum of disciplines to support a growing portfolio of research technologies and cyberinfrastructure services. Her team is focused on ensuring that all campus researchers have access to strong, sufficient, relevant and robust data and computational platforms and services to accelerate scientific discovery and scholarship, advancing Stanford's research mission. Learn more about Research Computing.

With more than 25 years of experience in supporting, managing and leading technology teams and programs in higher ed, Ruth is especially interested in extending the potential of high-end computing to research areas whose compute and analysis needs cannot be met by traditional HPC solutions.

Ruth is actively engaged in the broader national HPC and Research Computing communities through participation in the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), the Campus Research Computing Consortium, XSEDE Campus Champions and SP Forum, and other initiatives. She serves on the advisory committees for the Pacific Research Platform, the NSF DesignSafe project, and Canada's WestGrid. As a member of Stanford's CIO Council, Ruth is a co-sponsor of the Stanford Women in Technology (WiT) program.

Prior to joining Stanford in 2012, Ruth held a variety of IT and Research Computing-related positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including Assistant Vice Chancellor for Teaching, Learning and Research Computing, as well as Director of the RENCI Engagement Center at UNC. A life-long Tar Heel fan, Ruth earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Chapel Hill.

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Molly Reynick

Executive Director for Financial Services

Molly Reynick is the Executive Director of Financial Services in University IT. Her organization is comprised of Finance, Vendor Management, and Service Systems & Solutions. Together, these teams ensure outstanding stewardship of university resources. As UIT’s financial portfolio regularly expands in size and complexity, so does our portfolio of vendor contracts and the range of services that require charge-back to users.

Molly joined Stanford in May 2002 and spent two years each in the H&S Dean's Office and the Office of Human Resources before joining IT Services as a Senior Financial Analyst in 2006. Since then, Molly steadily worked her way through various financial positions within the IT organization before her promotion to Executive Director. In her current role, Molly oversees UIT’s $250+ million annual budget and a team of more than 25 professionals.

Molly holds a Bachelor of Science in Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis and a Master of Business Administration from Notre Dame de Namur University.

Amy Steagall

Chief Information Security Officer

Amy Steagall is the Chief Information Security Officer at Stanford University. She reports to the Chief Information Officer of Stanford University and to the Senior Associate Vice President and Chief Risk Officer.

Amy leads the Information Security Office which oversees Stanford’s efforts to protect its computing and information assets and to comply with information-related laws, regulations, and policies. Learn more about the Information Security Office.

Amy joined Stanford in 2020. Prior to joining the Stanford team, Amy retired from the United States Air Force after 25 years of distinguished and honorable service. Throughout her career she consistently led large organizations and teams culminating in her role at the Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber at NSA Texas where she led cyber mission teams operating in complex security environments and specializing in offensive and defensive cyberspace operations.

Amy holds a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity Management and Policy from University of Maryland

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Sam Steinhardt

Assistant Vice President for Service Strategy

Sam is the Assistant Vice President for Service Strategy. His unit plays a key role in driving the organization's strategic direction through the proactive management of the UIT service portfolio, and by aligning UIT’s resources with its overall strategy. Sam provides executive oversight for UIT’s service management, business relations, project management, and financial and vendor management efforts. Learn more about Service Strategy.

Sam has been at Stanford since 1999, providing administrative leadership in a number of areas. Initially, Sam was the Chief Financial and Operations Officer for Learning Technology and Extended Education, where he directed an array of organizations utilizing new media to export academic content to non-traditional audiences. From 2002 to 2006, Sam was the Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL) and Wallenberg Hall, which provided advanced resource classrooms and state-of-the-art facilities for research in learning and education, both locally and in collaboration with international partners. From 2006 to 2015, Sam served as the Executive Director for Business Services in Stanford’s IT Services organization.

Prior to joining Stanford, Sam was the CFO for a privately held systems integration firm. Earlier in his career, he spent six years at KPMG (now Bearing Point) and then founded and managed Steinhardt Associates, a general management consulting firm.

Sam holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Stanford and an Master of Business Administration from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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Nancy Ware

Chief of Staff, Office of the CIO

Learn more about the Office of the CIO.