Kathy Wetzel was the CIO at the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) for 10 years. She has spent over 20 years in IT and has held many roles in manufacturing, supply chain management, accounting and customer service. Last year she was honored with the IT Executive of the Year. Her key accomplishments include strengthening IT leadership skills and succession planning, focused on technology education throughout the organization, implemented a disciplined approach and technology to govern TASBs Master Data, implemented an Enterprise Service Bus to better manage data integrations and improve cyber security processes both to better protect the data and incident response.  A few other notable achievements include facilitating the implementation of a mobile app within a franchise organization, awarded an innovation award for reducing inventory by 10% using Kanban methodologies and managed the organization through a data breach. Kathy is an active member of the Society of Information Management, Austin Chapter and involved in CIO forums.