Michael Schnabel is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for UT San Antonio. He superintends the university’s overarching technology environment, including critical IT enablement for research and teaching activities of faculty and students, all information applications and infrastructure related to administrative information technology, information security, and technical services for faculty, staff, and students.
Michael joined UT Health San Antonio in 2013 and served as the chief information security officer and assistant vice president of information security and operations for more than a decade. In that time, he advanced UT Health San Antonio’s cybersecurity and network infrastructure to modernize IT operations and foster transformational growth. He has a proven record of executing critical information security, cyber operations and data governance programs across academic, research and patient care domains. Michael is a strategic leader, routinely interacting with executive leadership, faculty, staff and students as well as our UT System administration and systemwide colleagues on important initiatives.
Prior to joining UT Health San Antonio, Michael served as information security officer for City of Hope National Medical Center, where he transformed cybersecurity operations and information security assurance supporting City of Hope’s medical center, Beckman Research Institute, graduate school and philanthropy entities. Prior to his time at City of Hope, he worked in the financial sector, serving as senior vice president and chief information officer at Gateway Business Bank. He holds an MBA in Information Technology Management and a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from Western Governors University.