Krishna Edathil
Chief Technology Officer/Assistant Commissioner at the State of Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Krishna Edathil is the Chief Technology Officer for the Texas Higher Education Department in an Assistant Commissioner rank. In this capacity, he would provide technology leadership and stewardship to support the agency to achieve a Talent-Strong Texas and make Texas a global leader in higher education.
Krishna has more than two decades in technology start-up and leadership roles. He served as
the Division Director of Enterprise Solution Services at the Texas Department of Information Resources on Cloud, AI, and emerging technologies. Before that, he was a senior technology executive for Accenture’s Intelligent Software Engineering Services group.
Krishna has an executive certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management in Leadership and Management including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things. He also graduated from UT's ELITE program for Texas State technology leaders.
Ep.151 From the Red Zone to the End Zone: CISO Cyber Strategies that Won't Bust Your Bracket
Featuring Ryan Murray, State CISO, State of Arizona; Krishna Edathil, CTO/Assistant Commissioner, Texas Higher Ed. Board, and Tim Roemer, ThriveDX President & Fmr. State CISO, State Arizona
We're all talking to the same people... How do we replicate that out to those other entities and then help give them the resources to do it? ~ Ryan Murray
I'm not the CTO; I'm the Chief Trust Officer... You can achieve [that] through the people and the relationship and then the trust that you bu...
