Marian Moore is the first Vice Chancellor for Information Technology for The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation's oldest public university. Ms. Moore was appointed to this position in July of 1997. As Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, she is responsible for managing the University's extensive information technology systems - both administrative and academic. Her duties include the development and implementation of technologies to support the University's mission of teaching, research, and public service.

She is also the first Chairman of the Board of the North Carolina Networking Initiative. NCNI is a collaboration of the triangle area research universities (UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State University) and their industry partners. NCNI was created to explore and develop leading edge networking technologies and to operate the North Carolina GigaPop, one of the first Internet2 sites in the country to connect to the vBNS.

Prior to her appointment at UNC, Ms. Moore was a senior manager at SAS Institute in Cary, North Carolina. SAS Institute is the largest privately held software company in the nation. Employed at SAS since 1989, she managed the company's distributed systems and networking infrastructure groups. She successfully led a $20 million overhaul of the company's network and desktop environment.

Previously, Moore served as Executive Director of Information Technology at Boston University where she was responsible for the Academic Computing Center. During the thirteen years she spent at Boston University, she also held a joint appointment in the Computer Science Department where she taught courses in operating system theory, design, and programming.

She has managed computing systems at Yale University, Ohio State University, and Wells Fargo Bank where she was Vice President for Distributed Systems.

Ms. Moore was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She holds a bachelor and master of science degrees in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University.