Mikel Etxeberria leads the Digital Foundry team to promote innovation, accelerate the adoption of leading industry practices, and foster cohesive ways-of-working across technology teams and technology modernization portfolios. The Digital Foundry offers accelerators, methodologies, tools, and immersive labs that enable technology teams to rapidly pilot and implement new ways-of-working in support of academic and administrative activities. The key focus areas of the Digital Foundry include human-centered design, cloud and engineering strategy, and the design of modern solution architectures. As part of the innovation agenda, Mikel actively supports the GenAI discovery, socialization, and activation efforts at UCLA.
Mikel joined UCLA in January 2024 from Deloitte Consulting, where he was a Technology Strategy Manager working with Fortune 500 organizations to define value-first technology strategies, redesign operating models and ways of working, develop actionable roadmaps, and drive cross-functional alignment. He previously worked at Huron Consulting Group, supporting university CIOs in IT operations and security. Before his management consulting work, Mikel spent most of his career in higher education, holding technology management roles at UC Irvine and the University of Central Florida.
He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from Mondragon University and is ITIL, PMP, and AWS CCP certified. Outside of work, Mikel, originally from Spain, is a competitive tennis player and award-winning amateur winemaker.
