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Industry Advisory Board

The MSIT Industry Advisory Board (IAB) was created in 1998 to help guide the future direction of the MSIT program. The IAB includes IT industry leaders from sectors such as manufacturing, transportation, pharmaceutical, and consulting. Members help ensure the continued success of MSIT by:

  • Ensuring the program continues to address industry needs
  • Performing regular review of the program’s curriculum and course offerings for relevance and usefulness
  • Developing and implementing strategic plans
  • Assisting in program promotion, marketing, and recruitment 


Current IAB Members
Navdeed Asem Head of Global Analytics and Insights, Avalara, MSIT Class of 2013
Brett Bernstein VP, Brad's Deals, MSIT Class of 2001
David Carr Associate VP Cyber Infrastructure, Northwestern University, MSIT Class of 2000
Todd Fitzgerald Managing Director/Cybersecurity Leadership Author
Kevin Glynn Managing Principal at The Laminar Group LLC, and board chairman
Jibran Ilyas Director, Incident Response at Mandiant, MSIT Class of 2009
Dimitra Kane Enterprise Architecture Sr. Manager, Discover Financial Service, MSIT Class of 1999
Varun Milind Kulkarni Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, NU Class of 2016
Lowell Lindstrom President and Founder of The Oobeya Group
Wayne Montague Founder, CEO at Castletown Innovations, MSIT Class of 2000
Yusuf Ozturk Chief Technology Officer at Rand McNally
Pramod Sadalage Director Data & DevOps @ ThoughtWorks Inc, MSIT Class of 2020
Rohit Verma Chief Executive Officer at Crawford & Company, MSIT Class of 1999
Sausan Yazji Sr. Advisory Consultant, Amazon Web Services