Soheil Katal | Chief Information Officer
Los Angeles Unified School District

Soheil Katal is an enterprising, innovative, solution-focused IT leader, experienced in enterprise architecture management, and a proven successful project leader. Twenty years of experience in both the public and private sectors and well-rounded expertise in business insight and technology innovation catapulted him forward to serve as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation’s second-largest school district. As CIO, Soheil oversees one of the largest technology environments in the nation, with over 500,000 student and employee devices accessing a network of nearly 100,000 access points daily, 30,000 miles of cabling, and 12 petabytes of storage, 1,000 times the size of the Library of Congress.