NASHVILLE, Tenn. (PRWEB)
June 17, 2022
TennesseeCIO announced the winners of its 2022 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. TennesseeCIO identified chief information officers in seven main categories – Leadership, Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, and Corporate. The Awards were presented at the Tennessee CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards at the Omni Nashville Hotel.
“Every organization relies on technology, but strong leadership is the X-factor that can make global IT a wonderful strategic differentiator,” said Andy Flatt, TennesseeCIO Chair. “The ORBIE Awards are significant because they are judged by peers-CIOs who understand the challenges of technology leadership. Having strong business-centric, executive technology leadership is key not only to success, but to very existence. of business. “
The winners of the 2022 TennesseeCIO ORBIE Award are:
- Andy Flatt, SVP and CIO, National HealthCare Corporation received the ORBIE Leadership.
- William Orange, VP and CIO, Technology Product Management, Nissan Americas received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $ 10.5 billion in annual revenue and multi-national operations.
- Pal Narayanan, EVP and CIO of the Americas Region, GEODIS received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $ 3.5 billion in annual revenue and multi-national operations.
- Robert Mills, EVP, Digital, Strategy & Technology Officer, Tractor Supply Company received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $ 3.5 billion in annual revenue.
- Keith Perry, SVP and CIO, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital received Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $ 1 billion in annual revenue.
- Michael Saad, SVP and CIO, University of Tennessee Medical Center received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $ 500 million in annual revenue.
- Phil Crawford, CTO, CKE Restaurant has received Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $ 500 million in annual revenue.
The CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards is the leading technology executive recognition program in the United States. Since its inception in 1998, more than 500 CIO of the Year winners have received the prestigious ORBIE Award. ORBIE honored chief information officers who demonstrated excellence in technology leadership. Finalists and winners are selected through an independent peer review process, led by previous ORBIE recipients, based on:
- The effectiveness of leadership and management
- Business value created by change in technology
- Industry engagement and community efforts
The TennesseeCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Anil Cheriyan, CTO & EVP, Strategy and Technology, of Cognizant, who was interviewed by Jonathan Frye, President & Co-Founder of InspireCIO. Nearly 400 guests attended, representing Tennessee’s leading organizations and their technology partners.
The 2022 TennesseeCIO ORBIE Awards were made possible by the following sponsors:
- Underwriters: Concord, Google Cloud, Lumen, Qentelli, and Veristor
- Gold sponsors: Fortinet, Tata Consultancy Services, and Zscaler Inc
- Silver sponsors: Accenture, ClearDATA, CMAC Inc., DXC Technology, Infosys, Tanium, and Tech Mahindra
- Bronze sponsors: AHEAD, AWS, Between Pixels, Gozio Health, Internetwork Engineering, Island, MEDHOST, Palantir, Patriot Talent Solutions, R1 RCM, SentinelOne, ServiceNow, Snowflake, True Group, Inc., & VMware
- Media partner: Nashville Business Journal
- About TennesseeCIO
TennesseeCIO is the leading network of fellow leadership of chief information officers in Tennessee. TennesseeCIO is one of 25 chapters of the InspireCIO Leadership Network, a national membership organization composed exclusively of CIOs from public and private businesses, government, education, health care and nonprofit institutions.
TennesseeCIO is headed by a CIO Advisory Board, supported by an executive director and staff. Underwriter executives ensure that programs remain non-commercial and exclusive to qualified CIOs and members.
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