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Chief Information Officer, Province of British Columbia
Dave Nikolejsin has served as Chief Information Officer for the Province of British Columbia since July 2005. In his role as chief technology strategist for the Province, Dave promotes and guides government’s management of information as a strategic business asset. This includes driving value for information management and information technology investments, and enabling the transformation of government services through information sharing and strategic partnerships.
Prior to his appointment as Chief Information Officer, Dave spent two years as the Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for the Network BC initiative. Through his leadership in this project, Dave played a pivotal role in bridging the digital divide by connecting many rural and remote communities in British Columbia to high-speed broadband.
Dave has a strong technical background, and spent nearly twenty years working in management positions of progressively more responsibility in network services, both in the B.C. government and with SaskTel in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Dave is a member of the Board of Directors for BCNET and an active participant in the cross-jurisdictional Public Sector Chief Information Officer Council.
Dave graduated with Honours with a Diploma in Electronics Engineering from the Saskatchewan Technical Institute in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. In 2001, Dave completed the executive program in Public Sector Leadership at Royal Roads University. More recently, Dave joined a small group of executives at the Harvard Business School for the cross-disciplinary program entitled “Delivering Information Services.”
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