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PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY OF ANTHONY K ADADE, Ph.D.

Dr. Anthony Adade has extensive leadership and management experience in business information technology services delivery and support, as well human resource administration. In 2015, he served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Worcester State University (WSU), a public institution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. At WSU, he was responsible for providing overall vision and leadership for the development and implementation of innovative institutional technology services that support its mission and strategic goals. Before being recruited to join Worcester State University, Dr. Adade was the Chief Information Officer at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), a constituent institution of the State of North Carolina, where he led the institution to complete many projects including its Payroll system and Banner ERP implementations. At ECSU, he managed the implementation of a ground-breaking TeraGrid supercomputing network for teaching and research, in partnerships with Indiana University, and with funding from the National Science Foundation. He was also involved in collaborative efforts with regional and national technology groups designed to bring high speed broadband connectivity to remote areas of northeast North Carolina. He served on numerous technology leadership councils, including the UNC system’s CIO Shared Services Alliance Board, and the advisory committee for the North Carolina Regional Education Network (NCREN), a group responsible for high speed internet connection backbone for educational institutions in the state of North Carolina. In early 2010, he worked with representatives from NCREN (also known as MCNC) and other groups to secure funding for a project that brought high speed broadband Internet connectivity to rural northeast North Carolina. As a result of that project, Elizabeth City State University became an anchor institution for a $75.75 million U.S. Department of Commerce award in August, 2010 in a second round of Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP2) funding to support the Golden Leaf Rural Broadband Initiative. Besides his extensive technology leadership experience in higher education, he has also worked in private business, particularly the financial sector managing technology projects and training in a corporate setting, including Thomson Financial Services and Deutsche Bank. Before joining Elizabeth City State University, he worked as technology project leadership consultant at Deutsche Bank, at the time, the 4th largest bank in the world with worldwide workforce of more than 60,000. At Deutsche Bank, he led a large technology services delivery and support engineering group that covered technology support for all of the bank’s locations in the United Kingdom, the continental US corporate headquarters at 60 Wall Street, and locations in Bangalore India. In addition to having those many years of progressively responsible professional experience, he has a doctorate degree with a concentration in technology leadership development. His research interest is in professional development for technology service managers, with a focus on quality evaluation of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) training and implementation. Dr. Adade is a team-builder who believes that establishing trust is the key to motivating others, and he is a decision-maker who not only embraces but inspires reasonable risk-taking, while acting as a catalyst for change. He is an open, fair-minded, and accessible leader who believes in and practices shared governance. The Information Technology industry is proud to have Dr. Adade as a key representation of executive leadership.