Dr. Brad Wheeler is Vice President for IT and CIO at Indiana University where he leads university-wide IT services for IU's eight campuses. As CIO at Indiana University, Wheeler helped spearhead the university becoming a pilot site for Internet2's Innovation Platform. The partnership resulted in the development of the Open Exchange Software Suite (OESS) and FlowSpace Firewall (FSFW).

Dr. Wheeler has published on topics such as cyber-infrastructure and cloud services, community-source software, and organizational leadership. He has co-founded and led open source software and service collaborations such as the Unizin Consortium, Kuali, and the HathiTrust. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, where he is also a Professor.