Brice Knotts

Chief Information Officer

Brice Knotts was named Chief Information Officer in August 2022, after serving for more than a year as interim Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Knotts leads the strategic planning and implementation of technology solutions that create opportunities for people to connect, discover and innovate to solve real-world problems within the University’s pillars of education, healthcare, prosperity and purpose.

Under Knotts’ leadership, Information Technology Services (ITS) is transforming the University’s business capabilities to differentiate WVU as the model land-grant university and preferred higher education destination.

As one of the executive sponsors, Knotts plays a critical leadership role in the WVU Modernization Program. The program aims to prepare WVU for future challenges by establishing a flexible, resilient foundation built on modern technology and efficient, effective business processes that enable and support compelling digital experiences for students, parents, employees and alumni.

Knotts has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from WVU, as well as a master’s in business administration. He has been with the University since 1995, starting as a manager of administrative networking and moving to assistant director of Student Affairs IT in 1999. He became associate director of that unit a year later, then director in 2007.

Knotts was named director of the former Student Systems Management (SSM) group in March 2012, then Executive Director for Enterprise Infrastructure in April 2015 after ITS was created by merging the Office of Information Technology (OIT) with SSM and three other independent IT departments. Research Computing became part of Enterprise Infrastructure a year later.

Knotts was named Executive Director for Enterprise Applications in February 2019. He was named Deputy CIO that August and was appointed to the interim CIO role in April 2021.