Virginia Evans

Higher Education IT Executive of the Year

Virginia Evans is the vice president and chief information officer at the University of Virginia, where she is responsible for planning and delivering central IT infrastructure, applications, IT support, and information security and IT policy, as well as research computing for the university. Evans has more than 35 years of IT experience, ranging from IT consulting with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and independent IT consulting, to 30 years managing IT at the University of Virginia at both the central and school levels. She is an active participant in national IT organizations of large research universities — CSG (Common Solutions Group) and RUCC (Research University CIO group), as well as Internet2.