Former A&T Chancellor Lloyd V. Hackley appointed Vijay Verma on January 2, 2007, as interim vice chancellor for information technology and telecommunications (ITT) and chief information officer.

Verma had served since 2003 as associate vice president and associate chief information officer for the University of North Carolina General Administration in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was vice president and chief information officer for the University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Md.; director of information technology and CIO for the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C.; and manager of information technology for Philips Electronics North America in Ann Arbor, Mich. During his tenure at Seton Hill University in Greenburg, Pa., Verma served in several administrative and faculty positions including director of information and communication technologies and CIO and associate professor of business management.

Verma is a successful fund-raiser, grant writer, and executive trainer who is connected in both the higher education as well as the for-profit business communities. He founded the renowned National Education Center for Women in Business at Seton Hill University and a regional higher education technology consortium (Consortium for Computing in Undergraduate Education originally established at Carnegie Mellon University). In addition, he founded, developed, and sold CompuTrain Associates, Inc. which specialized in a wide range of technology training with a special focus on high quality training for executives.

An experienced faculty member, Verma has taught different courses at various levels and understands the power and role of technologies in education and research. On two occasions, he received the Apple for the Teacher Award at the University of Pittsburgh. A proven information technology innovator, Verma has worked with every generation of microcomputers from the very first one and engineered the "microcomputer revolution" at Seton Hill University, based on the belief that distributed computing was a fundamental shift. In 1985, he began working in networking to facilitate information sharing between islands of distributed computers.

Verma describes his leadership style and philosophy as highly visible, fully engaged, hands on as necessary, customer focused, decisive yet deliberative, participatory, and consensus seeking/building.

A graduate of Panjab University in India, Verma received his B.S. degree in biology with honors and his M.S. degree in biochemistry as the valedictorian. He also has a M.S. degree in management from Yale University and a M.A. degree in business economics from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently completing his dissertation for the Ph.D. degree in business economics at the University of Pittsburgh.

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