Jorge Martinez

CTO, Knight Foundation

Jorge joined the foundation in June 1996 as Manager of Information Technology. In March 2003, he was promoted to Director of Information Systems. Jorge leads the foundation’s information systems department and its initiative to achieve Universal Wireless Access in its 26 communities.

He has 25 years of experience in the IT field. Before joining the foundation, he worked in the advanced systems department of the Miami Herald Publishing Company. Prior to that, Jorge was a Systems Engineer for MicroAge, whose clients included Dade-Baxter, Baptist Health Systems, Knight-Ridder and Ryder Systems.

Jorge is an alumnus of Leadership Miami. He is a board member and former Chairman of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) of the Council of Foundations. He is a board member of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (N-TEN) and a member of the Foundation Information Systems Managers group.