Name: Arun Kumar Bhaskara-Baba
Previous title: Chief information officer, Honeywell Aerospace and Defense
New title: Chief information officer, Mayo Clinic
Bhaskara-Baba joined Mayo Clinic as CIO in May, the Minnesota-based health system confirmed in a statement. He’s at the helm of Mayo’s information technology systems across its network of 16 hospitals and 45 multispecialty clinics.
Bhaskara-Baba is succeeding Cris Ross, who retired in 2024 after 12 years in the role.
Bhaskara-Baba brings more than 25 years of tech experience to the role. He joins Mayo from Honeywell Aerospace and Defense, where he directed digital strategy and scaled the company’s artificial intelligence capabilities as CIO.
Before joining Honeywell, Bhaskara-Baba held several leadership roles at pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, directing global manufacturing IT across the company’s pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer arms.
He’s also worked in senior IT roles in risk management, quality and compliance and information security, both at Johnson & Johnson and Dell.
Bhaskara-Baba's experience scaling AI capabilities will likely prove useful for Mayo Clinic as the academic medical center builds out its AI capabilities.
In June, Mayo announced a partnership with Microsoft to build a “frontier” AI model that aims to make diagnoses earlier and plan treatment. The same month, Mayo deployed advanced AI infrastructure created by computer chip maker NVIDIA that it said would further drug discovery.
