Kiran Sekhri is the Chief Innovation Officer at Wayne County Community College District. She has more than 35 yrs of experience in IT including higher education and corporate.  Kiran has served in different capacities during her career span as a Programmer, Systems Analyst, DBA, Director, CIO and Vice Chancellor. Her career has progressed from implementing enterprise applications, managing the IT operations to implementing strategic Information Technology transformation Plan.

Kiran is the Chair of the Education Committee for the SIM (Society for Information Management) Detroit Chapter and has been instrumental in starting the STEM scholarship program for high school seniors. Kiran has also worked on multiple STEM initiatives in coordination with the philanthropy committee. 

Kiran holds double masters degrees,  Masters in System Administration and Masters in Business Economics.