Patrick Collins is the Chief Information Officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.  He heads the Foundation’s IT department, participates in the evaluation of IT-related grant proposals, and manages a small portfolio of special projects grants.

Prior to joining the Hewlett Foundation in 2005, Mr. Collins was the Director of Information and Communication Services at the University of California Office of the President.  There he directed a sixty-five member information technology group that provided IT services for 2,200 employees at UC’s headquarters and managed the corporate data warehouse for the system’s ten campuses and five medical centers.  He also developed and directed the University’s IT Strategic Sourcing Program, which involved negotiating and managing contracts for $200 million in annual IT purchases.  Mr. Collins’ innovative work in the area of IT purchasing was recognized in a Redmond Magazine cover story in November 2004. 

Before entering university administration Mr. Collins directed two academic data centers – the California Census Research Data Center located at UCLA and UC Berkeley, and the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University.  In addition to administering these centers, he contributed to many scholarly publications as a data analyst, statistician, and author. 

Mr. Collins has a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he graduated first in his class.