Nader Mherabi, 2014 Honoree

- Title
- Senior vice president, vice dean and CIO
- Employer
- NYU Langone Medical Center
- Location
- New York
- New titles in your IT organization:
- Data architect, CTO, business partner, program manager.
- How many times have you had to reinvent yourself in your career?
- Several times, as I moved first from application development to the business side of international banking, and then into healthcare. I have been an applications and then infrastructure guy, a CTO and a CIO.
- A recent example of your leadership style:
- After the center's power failed during Hurricane Sandy, I joined an all-hands effort to evacuate patients from the hospital. Immediately afterward, I gathered my team in a hotel conference room, where we established an emergency command center and began to tackle the massive recovery effort.
- How do you evaluate emerging technologies?
- Our new innovation center was designed to showcase new business processes and technologies. We are establishing a complementary innovation community to harvest faculty, staff and student ideas via our new socially-driven digital platform.