John Wetsch, Ph.D., has over 30 years of experience working in industry, government, and higher education. He is a recognized industry leader in large-scale information systems development and deployment, software engineering, systems analysis and design, cybersecurity, cloud migration, risk management, and related technologies. Dr. Wetsch currently serves as the program director for cloud computing at Wake Technical Community College.

Dr. Wetsch has received numerous career recognitions including appointment as a Northrop Grumman Technical Fellow, recipient of Computerworld Magazine's 100 Premier IT Leaders, and Trustee Emeritus with Excelsior University. He has a Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University in Information Systems, a Masters of Astronomy from Western Sydney University, an M.A. from Antioch University in historical astronomy, a B.S. from Excelsior University in physics, and a B.S. from the University of North Dakota in interdisciplinary studies in physics and philosophy.