Mayo Clinic has named Arun Kumar Bhaskara-Baba as its chief information officer, according to an industry roundup of technology leadership appointments published on September 9, 2026. The move places a veteran technology executive at the head of information systems for one of the largest nonprofit academic medical organizations in the United States. Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minnesota, runs a network of hospitals and clinics that treats large numbers of patients each year and depends on complex technology to support its care and research.
Bhaskara-Baba joins Mayo Clinic from Honeywell Aerospace and Defense, where he served as chief information officer. In that role he directed the unit’s digital strategy and worked to expand its use of artificial intelligence. The appointment brings a leader from a large industrial technology operation into a health system that relies heavily on data, connected devices and clinical software to run its hospitals and research programs.
Earlier in his career, Bhaskara-Baba held a series of leadership positions at Johnson & Johnson. There he managed global manufacturing information technology across the company’s pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer businesses. The work placed him in charge of technology operations across regulated industries and in settings where reliability and compliance carry particular weight, and it spanned the kind of large, distributed systems now common in major health organizations.
His academic background spans engineering and business. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Sri Venkateswara University in India and a master’s in business administration from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The combination points to a career that moved from technical training into senior management, ending with responsibility for large technology organizations.
As chief information officer, Bhaskara-Baba will oversee the technology that supports Mayo Clinic’s clinical and administrative work. The appointment continues a pattern of health systems recruiting technology leaders from outside the sector, drawing on experience built in aerospace, manufacturing and consumer industries. Health organizations have increasingly sought executives who have managed digital strategy and artificial intelligence programs elsewhere. The announcement did not include a start date for the new chief information officer or a detailed account of his initial priorities in the role.
