Teena Piccione

Secretary & State Chief Information Officer

Teena Piccione (pronounced pitch-OWN-ee) joined the N.C. Department of Information Technology in January 2025.

As Secretary and State Chief Information Officer, she leads the agency responsible for strategic IT planning and the procurement and delivery of IT services and solutions as well as cybersecurity and efforts to expand broadband access and affordability across North Carolina.

Prior to NCDIT, Piccione was the managing director for Cloud and Customer Engineering over Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment and Gaming at Google. She has also worked at RTI International as executive vice president and chief technology officer, at Fidelity Investments as senior vice president and chief operating officer, and at AT&T as vice president and leader of the Big Data Center of Excellence.

Piccione has also served on the N.C. Information Technology Strategy Board's Digital Transformation Committee where she advised NCDIT on vision, mission and goals for digital transformation and helped develop a digital transformation roadmap for the state.