About Our CIO

Brian D. Voss was named Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) in February 2022, removing the previous interim status from his hire on May 18, 2021. Voss previously served as Clemson’s interim CIO in 2016-17.

Voss brings broad and deep experience across the spectrum of higher education information technology (IT), built through over 40 years of career achievements in IT leadership: strategic planning, user services, teaching and learning support, networks/ telecommunications, academic and research computing and enterprise-wide University information systems.

Voss has served as vice president and CIO at the University of Maryland College Park, vice chancellor and CIO at Louisiana State University, and held increasing positions of responsibility in IT at Indiana University over a nearly 20-year span. He also was interim CIO at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to rejoining Clemson, he led a project focused on using cloud cyberinfrastructure to support research for the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University; he then served as interim executive director of the PTI until he returned to Clemson. He has held private-sector jobs with Mead Data Central and Westinghouse Electric. He has served on the board of directors for EDUCAUSE, National LambdaRail and the Kuali Foundation, and various advisory groups for Internet2. Voss also served as the first presidential Fellow for EDUCAUSE where he focused his work on the role of the CIO in higher education.