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Cocchi, Michael

Deputy Executive Director, Data Operations and Chief Data OfficerIndependent & Quasi-public Agencies
  • Agency Independent & Quasi-public Agencies
  • Division Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA)
  • Title Deputy Executive Director, Data Operations and Chief Data Officer
  • Address 501 Boylston Street, 5th Floor
    Boston, MA 2116
  • Phone 617-701-8211
  • Email michael.cocchi@state.ma.us

Official Record

  • Year Started Current Position 2013
  • Years in Current Position 14
  • Job Description Direct CHIA's Date Operations and Technology Unit, which encompasses date management and delivery, carrier and hospital intake, data user support, application development, data security, and IT infrastructure teams; collecting data from CHIA's five hundred disparate data submitters and building data products for CHIA's customers.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth 2/12/1955
  • Place of Birth Weymouth
  • Marital Status Married (Constance)
  • Children 2

Education & Career

  • Education
    • B.S. Computer Systems Engineering, UMass, Amherst
    • Society for Information Management, Northwest Regional Leadership Forum
    • 2016 Greater Boston Executive Program, MIT Sloan School of Management
    • Executive Certificate of Management and Leadership. MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Previous Employment
    • Managing Director, Enterprise Data, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
    • First Vice President, Business Intelligence, Washington Mutual/JP morgan Chase
    • Sr. Systems Developer, MassMutual Financial Group
    • Systems Developer, Unicare Life & Health