Eric Denna joins Knod's team of advisors

Eric is an active consultant, investor, advisor/mentor to startups, author, and professor. He is married to Lyn Hoggan and they are the parents of seven children and a growing number of grandchildren.  

He worked for Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse, and Coopers & Lybrand as a consultant.  He was the Deloitte-Touche Faculty Fellow and associate professor of information systems at BYU’s Marriott School of Management. 

After leaving academe he was chief information officer for Times Mirror Corporation, for BYU, and for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over a 12 year period. Subsequently, he was the Chief Operating Officer of The RBL Group (www.rbl.net) and SVP, Global Operations and Process Design at Ascent Media.  

He then returned to higher education as the Chief Information Officer for The University of Utah and the Utah System of Higher Education, and was co-chair of the Utah Education Network board of directors. He is also Vice-Chair of the Kuali Foundation (www.kuali.org). In July 2014 he became the CIO at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Eric is an advisor and is on the board of directors of several organizations. He has written five books and several scholarly and professional articles on the strategic use of information technology and has spoken or taught at conferences and universities around the world.  

Eric has a bachelors degree in accounting from BYU, a masters degree in information systems from BYU, and a Ph.D in Information Systems from Michigan State University where he was the Coopers & Lybrand Doctoral Scholar.