Tracy Doaks | President & CEO
MCNC

Tracy Doaks is President & CEO of MCNC, the technology nonprofit focused on delivering high performance protected Internet and networking, cloud services, cybersecurity, and other essential technologies for communities throughout North Carolina. MCNC owns and manages nearly a 4,500-mile fiber optic infrastructure backbone, the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), that supports more than 900 community anchor institutions (CAIs) in all 100 counties. 

Prior to joining MCNC in August 2020, Tracy was state chief information officer and secretary for the N.C. Department of Information Technology where she led the state agency responsible for all IT procurement, state cybersecurity, operational services, broadband infrastructure, solutions division, data analytics center, the N.C. 911 Board and strategic IT planning.

She joined NCDIT in November 2015 and served as chief deputy state chief information officer and chief services officer until her appointment as state CIO in February 2020.  Prior to NCDIT, Tracy worked for Duke Medicine where she served as the senior director of service delivery. Her primary responsibilities included providing leadership and oversight in the execution and delivery of application and infrastructure services for all of the hospitals, clinics, School of Medicine and School of Nursing. Tracy previously worked for the state of North Carolina as assistant secretary of Information Technology and CIO for the North Carolina Department of Revenue, where she led all aspects of strategic IT planning, implementation, operations, support and risk management. In addition, her past work experience also includes managing clinical informatics and analytics at Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC and developing systems at Accenture. 

Tracy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University and then went on to earn her CIO certification from the UNC School of Government. Additionally, she received the 2018 Public CIO Award from NC TECH, the 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Award from North Carolina University's Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the Triangle Business Journal’s 2022 Women in Business Award for Nonprofit Leadership, and recipient of NCSU’s Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards for 2024. Most recently, she was recognized by the Triangle Business Journal as one of the 2025 Corporate Leadership Award winners.

Tracy currently serves on the boards of the Center for Internet Safety (CIS) Board of Directors, MCNC Board of Directors (as ex officio), MCNC Endowment Board of Directors, NC State University’s Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) Advisory Board, North Carolina Telehealth Network Association (NCTNA), Rewriting the Code (RTC), The Quilt, and the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition. She also serves as an advisory for Certree and is the current Chair of The Quilt Executive Committee’s CEO Round Table. Tracy is a member of the CIS Finance & Audit and Nomination & Governance Committees, NC Broadband Coalition Steering Committee, NC Digital Equity and Collaborative (NCDEIC), NCSU ISE Growth Committee, NCTECH, NCTNA Secretary and Governance & Nominating Committee, and the RTC Finance Committee.
Tracy is a Co-PI for 3 National Science Foundation Awards: CC* Compute - Region: NCShare Accelerating Impact - GPUs-as-a-Service (NCShare AI-GaaS), CC*Planning: NC Regional Science DMZ, CC* Regional: NCShare Science DMZ.