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10 Kaiser Permanente IT leaders
These ten technology leaders have held director-level or more senior IT roles at Kaiser Permanente. A reader can learn from them how IT strategy, infrastructure, applications and service operations are planned and run inside a large integrated healthcare organization.
Professionals to explore
01—10Boris Fernandez
LinkedInExperience: IT Executive Director IT Operations & IT Site Leader · Kaiser Permanente
IT Executive Director IT Operations & IT Site Leader at Kaiser Permanente since 2025, and former Director, Business Service & Program Transformation GCC Transition and Optimization at Kaiser Permanente (2023–2025). The profile says the current role leads the Global Capability Center, an organization of 600+ IT professionals across two large domain capability areas, with direct oversight of eight senior leaders.
Boyd Novak
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Cloud & Infrastructure Services · Kaiser Permanente
Senior Vice President, Cloud & Infrastructure Services at Kaiser Permanente since 2025, and Head of Cloud & Infrastructure Services there since 2024. Former Vice President Information Technology Infrastructure at Kaiser Permanente (2016–2024). The profile says the current role leads enterprise cloud, infrastructure, resiliency, automation and platform strategy.
Bridget Karlin
LinkedInExperience: SVP of IT · Kaiser Permanente
SVP of IT at Kaiser Permanente since 2021. Her profile describes the role as senior vice president, Information Technology, Services & Operations, driving digital transformation at Kaiser Permanente, which it calls a $100 billion healthcare business with more than 88,000 physicians and nurses providing care to 12.6 million members.
David Tuttle
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Corporate Services, Technical Services · Kaiser Permanente
Vice President Corporate Services, Technical Services at Kaiser Permanente since 2020, and Executive Director - CS BIO Shared Services Organization there since 2013. Former Director, Shared Services Infrastructure Management at Kaiser Permanente (2011–2013). The profile says the current role leads technical shared services for the corporate services organization, including quality management and engineering.
Jim Gruher
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, IT Service Systems · Kaiser Permanente
Executive Director, IT Service Systems at Kaiser Permanente since 2020. Former Executive Director, Technology Inventory Management Program (2016–2020), Executive Director, Sales and Marketing Systems (2014–2016) and IT Director (2010–2014) at Kaiser Permanente. The profile says the current position is accountable for service management systems, technology asset and application inventory tools, and data management supporting operations.
Rahul Kulkarni
LinkedInExperience: Director of Information Technology · Kaiser Permanente
Former Director of Information Technology at Kaiser Permanente (2019–2023) and former Director -Operations and Application Resiliency at Kaiser Permanente (2017–2019). The profile says the director role involved shaping and executing the technology vision for Kaiser Permanente and guiding and directing its technology strategy and standards.
Rakesh Patel
LinkedInExperience: VP of Claims Technology · Kaiser Permanente
VP of Claims Technology at Kaiser Permanente since 2000 and Senior Vice President at Kaiser Permanente since 2020; the profile lists both roles as current. It says Rakesh Patel leads Kaiser Permanente's IT Claims Technology, and it lists the Senior Vice President role as based in California.
Rob Alger
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Health Plan Technology · Kaiser Permanente
Senior Vice President, Health Plan Technology at Kaiser Permanente since 2005. The profile says the role involves leading national multi-year IT and capability strategy development for the Health Plan at Kaiser Permanente. Other roles shown include CTO at Skylight Healthcare Systems (2001–2006) and CIO at Blue Shield of California (1991–1995).
Sandra Schuck
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Application Services · Kaiser Permanente
Vice President, Application Services at Kaiser Permanente since 2026. Former Executive Director at Kaiser Permanente (2017–2026) and former Director KPHC Operations at Kaiser Permanente (2016–2017). The profile lists the current role in engineering and technical, and says the Executive Director role provided operational leadership for production support.
Trevor Hogberg
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director Information Technology · Kaiser Permanente
Executive Director Information Technology at Kaiser Permanente since 2014, based in Oakland, and former Director Information Technology - Integrated Systems Delivery at Kaiser Permanente (2011–2014). The profile describes the current role as Executive Director of the Facilities Strategic Solutions & Clinical Operations organization.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area of IT to your question, since infrastructure, applications, claims systems and IT operations leaders see different parts of the same organization. For enterprise strategy or budget decisions, favor people with vice president or senior vice president scope; for delivery and operations questions, directors and executive directors may be closer to the day-to-day work.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a health system of this size decide which IT work to run centrally and which to leave to regions or business units?
- 02What did it take to move core infrastructure or applications to new platforms while keeping clinical and member services running?
- 03How do you measure the performance of IT service delivery, and which metrics did leadership actually act on?
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