At a glance
Name: Subbarao Mupparaju
Title: Director, Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal)
Appointed: May 2026, by Governor Gavin Newsom
Based in: Sacramento, California
Prior roles: Chief Deputy Director & CIO, FI$Cal; CIO, California HCD; State Chief Enterprise Architect, CDT
Short bio (50 words)
Subbarao Mupparaju is Director of the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal), appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in May 2026. A technology executive with more than three decades in the public and private sectors, he leads the modernisation of California's statewide financial systems, including the State's official accounting book of record.
Quotable
“In government technology, the system's job is to be dependable for the people who rely on it. Trust is the real deliverable.”
“Reliable public infrastructure should be invisible. When it works well, most people never have to think about it — and that is exactly the point.”
“Modernising the systems that manage a state's finances is never truly finished, but reaching the book-of-record milestone is a meaningful marker of how far California has come.”
Official references
- Official biographyFI$Cal, State of California
- Gubernatorial appointment announcementOffice of the Governor of California
- Book-of-record milestone (authored)FI$Cal, July 2026
- LinkedInlinkedin.com
Photo
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Media enquiries
Media enquiries relating to FI$Cal should be directed through the department at fiscal.ca.gov. General professional contact is available via his LinkedIn profile.