Mr. Band serves as senior vice president and CIO at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he leads more than 230 professionals across IT operations, infrastructure, software development, cloud, digital, information security, contracting, training and adoption, change management, and application support. With more than two decades of experience across healthcare, nonprofit, financial and technology sectors, he brings a broad enterprise perspective to pediatric healthcare transformation. Mr. Band joined CHLA in 2017 as CISO, where he built and matured the organization’s information security program before transitioning to the CIO role in 2021. He has since developed a multi-year strategic roadmap to shift the organization from infrastructure-centric IT to enterprise-aligned technology delivery, emphasizing cloud modernization, digital transformation, legacy system migration and workforce re-skilling. Under his leadership, CHLA has advanced AI integration, including deployment of an ambient AI scribe solution that generates encounter transcripts and summarizes clinical documentation, improving clinician satisfaction and operational efficiency. Previously, Mr. Band served as vice president of IT operations at another California-based health system, overseeing IT services across six hospitals and leading cost optimization, insourcing initiatives and EHR modernization efforts.
