Henry Geng has been appointed assistant dean for development and chief development officer at the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). His first day at Berkeley is Oct. 1.
Geng will lead CDSS development activities during a period of growth and change. CDSS is the first new college at UC Berkeley in more than 50 years. Faculty, staff and students recently moved into the college’s physical home – the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway – a new campus building including research labs, classrooms and lecture halls, and an event center.
Collaboration across the college and campus has led to the development of new research and education programs – including the Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative, and other interdisciplinary initiatives at the intersection of AI and computing.
Reporting to CDSS Dean Jennifer Chayes, Geng will be responsible for leading the strategic direction for the college’s development team, supporting the CDSS advisory board, and partnering with leadership on interdisciplinary programs and initiatives. He also has a dotted reporting line to University Development and Alumni Relations (UDAR) and will closely collaborate with development officers across campus.
“We are delighted to welcome Henry to UC Berkeley and the CDSS team,” said Chayes. “His partnership in securing philanthropic support for our excellent research and education programs comes at an opportune time in our college’s growth. I look forward to the vision and energy he will bring to our development initiatives in coordination with colleagues across campus.”
Geng joins CDSS from the UC San Diego Rady School of Management, where he led a comprehensive development and alumni relations team and served on the dean's leadership cabinet. His team secured significant philanthropic support for the school and achieved record alumni giving and volunteer engagement, expanding access for students, deepening support for faculty research, and building a stronger philanthropic pipeline for the school’s future.
Before UC San Diego, Geng held senior roles at Boston University, where he secured significant gifts for the university’s top institutional priorities. He began his career at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, raising gifts from patients and families to improve clinical care, research, education and capital projects for obstetrics, gynecology and pediatric newborn medicine.
Geng completed a bachelor’s degree in environmental economics from Bates College and a master’s degree in business administration from Boston University.
