John Hinshaw

Biography

John Hinshaw is a board director, angel investor, vintner, and former senior executive of HP, Boeing, and Verizon. He was most recently the Chief Customer Officer for Hewlett Packard Enterprise until November 2016. In this role, he led the strategic accounts and strategic alliances organizations as well as the information technology and cyber security functions for the company. John joined Hewlett-Packard in 2011 as the Executive Vice President of Technology & Operations, which had the information technology, sales operations, shared services, procurement, real estate, and security organizations reporting into him. He led that organization until the formation of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in November 2015. Previously, John spent nearly five years at The Boeing Company, serving as the General Manager of the Information Solutions business unit, and earlier as their CIO. He also led Boeing’s company-wide corporate initiative on Information Security and Information Management. While at Boeing in 2009, John was named CIO of the Year by the Executives’ Club of Chicago and the Association of Information Technology Professionals. Prior to Boeing, John spent 14 years at Verizon where he served as Senior Vice President and CIO of Verizon Wireless. He also held a number of key positions focused on enabling business growth, reducing costs and improving business productivity. Earlier in his career, John served as a consultant with Accenture. John is a member of the board of directors of The Bank of New York Mellon, where he serves on the Technology and Risk Committees. He is also a member of the board of directors of DocuSign where he serves on the Audit and Nominating and Governance Committees. John also serves on the board of directors of the National Academy Foundation (NAF), which helps 100,000 high school students be college and career ready. He chairs the STEM committee of the NAF board. John has done a half dozen angel investments in technology and wine industry companies. He and his wife Julia have been making Hinshaw Family Wine since 2012 producing Chardonnay, Merlot, and Syrah.

Research Interest

Informatics