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Jane Alexander is the Chief Digital Information Officer for The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). As CIO, Jane is responsible for creating awe-inspiring and iterative digital projects that support a vision of innovation, technology implementation, and digital transformation that best exemplifies the mission of CMA. With an eye toward organizational transformation, Jane spearheads the strategy, concept, design, and implementation of interactive experiences. Additionally, she leads the department that oversees applications, technical, media and support services.
 
Since 2012, Jane has led the many iterations of ARTLENS Gallery, the multi-faceted, innovative experience that inspires visitors to the museum to look closer and dive deeper in order to establish a connection with the museum's extensive collection. In 2019, Jane led the CMA’s comprehensive Open Access initiative, which allows the public to share, collaborate, remix, and reuse high resolution images of 30,000 public-domain artworks and metadata for 61,000 artworks for commercial and non-commercial purposes. Both of these projects have won numerous national and international awards and have been featured in a wide variety of national publications.