Lead with intelligence. Deliver with purpose.

Connect with Huron at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference | Oct. 27 – 30, 2025

Join us at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference

The future of higher education is being shaped by how institutions embrace AI — responsibly, strategically, and with purpose. At Huron, we help leaders harness AI to tackle their most pressing challenges, from streamlining operations to enhancing the student experience.

Join us at EDUCAUSE as we explore how AI can unlock new possibilities and overcome the complex changes facing higher education today.

Let’s talk AI — visit our booth

Booth 637

Today, AI is top of mind for higher education and research leaders. At our booth, we’ll be diving into the opportunities and challenges it brings for institutions like yours, including:

How to use AI responsibly and with confidence
Real ways AI can boost student success and efficiency
What it takes to move from an agentic AI pilot to strategy
How to manage change across your campus
Why the right partner makes all the difference

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IT strategy and cloud readiness

Roadmaps, process improvements, and partner ecosystems, including Oracle, Workday, and Salesforce

Cloud ERP

Deployment, optimization, and managed services .

Huron Research Suite

Unified cloud-native platform for research administration

Data and analytics

Data governance, insights, and analytics, including Huron’s Higher Education Performance Analytics (HEPA) suite

Student lifecycle systems

SIS, LMS, and CRM implementation and optimization

Finance and procurement

Spend management and procurement transformation

Jeff Dixon

Managing Director

Jeff brings 20 years of experience in higher education administration and research.
Contact Jeff
Laura Zimmermann

Managing Director, Education & Research Digital Leader

Laura has more than two decades of higher education consulting experience that she applies to help position institutions to achieve strategic enrollment goals and support the student lifecycle.
Contact Laura
Geoffrey Corb

Managing Director, Education & Research Digital

Geof has over 20 years of experience delivering technology-enabled growth and operational excellence in provider and consumer roles for higher education and healthcare institutions.
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Ty Duval

Principal

Ty has more than 22 years of information technology management consulting experience with large organizations across the globe.
Contact Ty
Selim Burduroglu

Managing Director

Selim has more than 30 years of experience advising education and government organizations on digital transformation, strategy, development, modernization, and implementation of applications and infrastructure to optimize processes and enhance organizational output.
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Bill Anderson

Managing Director, Digital, Oracle

Bill transforms colleges, universities, and academic health centers by innovating how they deliver services to advance their academic, research, and clinical mission.
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Derek Smith

Managing Director, Spend Management

Derek has more than 20 years of consulting and project management experience, helping organizations across industries transform their procurement, travel program and strategic sourcing operations.
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Mark Cianca

Principal, Strategy and Operations

Mark Cianca has over 35 years of experience as a higher education leader, with an extensive portfolio of accomplishments in information technology, business transformation initiatives, enterprise resource planning deployments, strategic planning and leadership development.
Contact Mark
Jonathan Krasnov

Managing Director, Strategy and Operations

Jonathan helps education and research institutions, academic medical centers, and higher education-focused third parties enhance business planning, digital strategy, operations, organizational design, and performance improvement with consideration for market trends, go-to-market positioning, the scalability of operations, and IT modernization timelines.
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Ronn Kolbash

Principal

Ronn has more than 25 years of experience assisting higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations with transforming their operations through strategy, operating models, process improvements, and technology implementation.
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Kelsey Coleman

Managing Director, Digital, Workday Education & Research

Kelsey has more than 10 years of experience helping higher education organizations prepare for cloud implementations and implement Workday Human Capital Management, Finance, and Student solutions to increase efficiencies; improve the student, staff, and faculty experience; and further the mission of the institution.
Contact Kelsey
Rob Bielby

Managing Director, Strategy and Operations

Rob brings 10 years of experience in higher education and analytics as he leads colleges and universities through transformation in their enrollment strategy, recruitment campaigns, student-retention solutions and financial aid policies.
Contact Rob