Patty Patria

Patty Patria is the Chief Information Officer at Babson College. She is an innovative, strategic thinker with 20+ years of experience in higher education, collaborating with faculty, students, and staff to envision and implement transformative solutions. She is responsible for providing strategic leadership in long-term and short-term planning, managing administrative and academic technology, and proving oversight for the management of security, networks, service desk, enterprise applications, web applications, institutional research, analytics, AI and the library.

Patty was a Co-Chair for EDUCAUSE’S Higher Education Information Security Committee (HEISC) from 2018 to 2022, is a Trustee for NERCOMP, and is the recipient of the 2023 HMG Global Leadership Award. Her team also received a 2024 CIO 100 Award for innovation, and Patty was the Boston Orbie CIO of the Year for the Non-Profit sector in 2024.

Patty holds a Master of Business Administration from Suffolk University. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Prosci Certified Change Management Professional.