Cole Camplese

Building technology organizations that serve people

Cole Camplese brings more than 25 years of information technology leadership experience to his role as Vice President for Technology and Chief Information Officer at UT Austin. He leads Enterprise Technology — a unified organization of more than 500 staff responsible for the technology infrastructure, services, and digital experiences that support 70,000+ students, faculty, and staff across one of the nation's largest public research universities.

At UT Austin, Cole is driving a multi-year digital transformation across five signature areas: advancing the university's AI strategy through UT.AI, modernizing campus identity infrastructure through the Digital ID initiative, strengthening security through the Controlled Unclassified Information program, supporting Dell Medical School through the UT Medicine ERP implementation, and centralizing network management across the full campus footprint.

His career is defined by an ability to build high-performing teams and deliver large-scale change — from enterprise system implementations to campus-wide digital transformations. Before joining UT Austin, he served as VP for IT and CIO at Northeastern University, where he led the implementation of Workday HCM and Finance, launched the Student Hub digital platform, and managed the technology integration for the Mills College acquisition. Prior to that, he held similar roles at the University of Chicago and Stony Brook University, each time reshaping IT organizations to better serve their academic missions.

Cole began his career at Penn State University, where he spent 15 years culminating as Senior Director for Teaching and Learning with Technology and as co-director of the Center for Online Innovations in Learning. That foundation — rooted in how people learn and how technology can make that experience better — continues to shape how he thinks about IT leadership at a research university.