2020
PENNIE
TURGEON
VICE PRESIDENT / CIO
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Pennie Turgeon has been serving as vice president for Information Technology and CIO at
New York Institute of Technology. From 2006–2019, Turgeon was the vice president for IT and
CIO at Clark University as well as the University’s Information Security and Privacy Officer.
Prior to that, she was at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for 15 years where she built
and cultivated technology-mediated learning environments as the director of Academic
Technology and Distance Learning.
Turgeon also held positions at Texas Instruments as a systems developer and at IBM as
a marketing sales assistant. She served on the NERCOMP Board of Trustees from 2005–
2013, serving as the Treasurer from 2007–2009. Turgeon has continued to be involved with
NERCOMP by serving on the Board’s nomination and finance committees.
Turgeon received a B.S. from Worcester State University and an M.B.A.
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