Name:Garret Yoshimi
TitleCompany:Vice President for IT & CIO, University of Hawaii, USA
Bio:As the University of Hawai‘i’s VP for information technology and CIO, Garret Yoshimi is responsible for UH systemwide
information technology systems and services. Yoshimi provides executive leadership in collaboratively setting forth the
overall vision, goals, strategies, and plans for the effective and appropriate use of information technologies to advance the
UH System.
Yoshimi returned to UH in January 2015. He previously served as the first CIO for the Hawai‘i Judiciary, senior technology
executive for the East-West Center. Yoshimi also previously served as [a] telecommunications manager before being
promoted to director of technology infrastructure for the University of Hawai‘i.
He actively represented the University of Hawai‘i in state and national venues as a member of EDUCAUSE, Internet2,
and ACUTA.
A native of Honolulu, Yoshimi earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a graduate certificate in telecommunications and information resource management from the University of Hawai‘i at
Manoa.