Tracy Futhey

As chief information officer (CIO) at Duke, Tracy Futhey presides over the university's information technology endeavors, which extend to a global network in support of Duke Kunshan University in China and various other international programs and sites.

Throughout her career as a technologist, Futhey has provided leadership in the use of commercial technologies within universities. In the 1990s this included pioneering the pervasive deployment of wireless networks and experimentation with early handheld devices at Carnegie Mellon University, where she spent 17 years prior to Duke.

Over her 35 year career she has influenced the higher education technology landscape regionally and nationally, leading the introduction of the nation’s first national research and education optical network and as an active member of regional and national higher education organizations. She is a frequent advisor to research projects, startups and Fortune 100 technology companies, has been Principal Investigator on numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, and has received awards regionally and nationally for her technology vision and leadership.

She holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a computer science concentration and a master's degree in industrial administration, both from Carnegie Mellon.