Vince Kellen Senior Consultant

Vince Kellen is a Senior Consultant with Cutter's Business Technology Strategies and Data Insight & Social BI practices. Mr. Kellen's 25-year experience involves a rare combination of IT operations management, strategic consulting, and entrepreneurialism. He is currently CIO at the University of Kentucky, one of the top public research institutions and academic medical centers in the US.

Mr. Kellen previously served as VP for Information Services (CIO) at DePaul University, where he won CIO magazine's coveted Top 100 award in 2007. He also served as a partner with strategy consulting firms, where he helped Fortune 500 and midsized companies with business and IT strategies, IT organizational development, customer experience management, customer relationship management (CRM), and data warehousing and analytics.

A national and international speaker on business and IT strategy issues, Mr. Kellen has authored four books on database technology and more than 120 articles and presentations on IT and business strategy topics. He holds a master's degree from DePaul's College of Computing and Digital Media and is currently completing his PhD in computer science at DePaul. Mr. Kellen was also an adjunct faculty member at DePaul for 10 years, where he helped launch the graduate program in e-commerce -- one of the nation's first graduate programs concentrating on e-commerce -- and designed and taught graduate courses in enterprise architecture, CRM technologies, and portals. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.