Governor Josh Green, M.D., has appointed Christine Sakuda as State of Hawai‘i Chief Information Officer.
Sakuda replaces Doug Murdock who retired last month.
Sakuda received her Bachelor of Science degree from Santa Clara University in 1991, and later received her MBA from the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa College of Business Administration in 1997.
Christina Sakuda has been named the State’s CIO.
She has nearly 20 years of experience leading IT transformation initiatives in healthcare and government, on top of 15 years of experience leading nonprofit organizations.
For the past seven years, she has been the Executive Director of Transform Hawai‘i Government (THG), a nonprofit organization established to catalyze the transformation of digital government services through people, process and technology to help Hawai‘i thrive.