Meet the CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Finalists for the DallasCIO ORBIE® Awards, held February 26, 2021.
 
Mark Elrod - North Texas Food Bank,
Jack Kelanic - Dallas Independent School District,
Doug Short - Trinity River Authority of Texas,
Caren Skipworth - Collin County Government,
Michael Youngs - Dallas Ft Worth International Airport,
Vin Crispino - BayMark Health Services,
Shane Henderson - Signify Health,
Joseph Longo - Parkland Health & Hospital System,
PamelaMcNutt - Methodist Health System,
Theresa Meadows - Cook Children's Health Care System,
Jan Ross - nThrive,
Joan Holman - Clark Hill PLC,
Jyoti Lynch - European Wax Center,
Steve McLaurin - Denbury Inc.,
Mark Overton - Greyhound Lines, Inc.,
Neelu Sethi - Reddy Ice,
Brian Drevicky - Supreme Lending,
Michele Rodgers - Exeter Finance LLC,
Hina Shamsi - Texas Capital Bank,
Trey Smith - MIC Global Services,
Mani Suri - 7-Eleven, Inc.,
Ashley Denison - Caliber Collision,
Jim French - Transplace,
Vipin Gupta - Toyota Financial Services,
Nimesh Mehta - National Life Group,
Mike Santimaw - Rent-A-Center,
Ramnik Kamo - Mavenir,
Christi Liebe - Omni Logistics, LLC,
Bill McDonald - WIS International,
Andy Potter - Rug Doctor,
Gertrude Van Horn - NCH Corporation,
Nancy Flores - McKesson Corporation,
Sue-Jean Lin - Alcon,
Sudhir Nair - LoanDepot,
Pankaj Patra - Brinker International,
Angela Venuk -GameStop,
Tammy Gilbert -Fidelity Investments

Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected],
DallasCIO Executive Director: Lourdes Gipson, [email protected] 

Meet 23 CIO of the Year® Finalists for the MichiganCIO ORBIE® Awards, held December 11, 2020.

William Fandrich - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan,
Ravi Pendse - University of Michigan,
Beth Niblock - City of Detroit,
Lesley Ma - NSF International,
Matt Spivey - Mission Veterinary Partners,
Elizabeth Klee - Urban Science,
Stacy Carron - Stout,
Andy Frey - OneMagnify,
David Behen - La-Z-Boy Incorporated,
Jennifer Charters - Flagstar Bank,
Paul Blowers - Plante Moran,
Anita Klopfenstein - Little Caesars Enterprises,
StevenAmbrose - DTE Energy,
Sangy Vatsa - FIS (frmly Comerica),
Jason Bressler - United Wholesale Mortgage,
Thomas Farrington - Perrigo,
Raman Mehta - Visteon Corporation,
James Seevers - Toyoda Gosei North America,
John Hill - Carhartt,
Mamatha Chamarthi - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles,
Matt Fahnestock - Dana Incorporated,
Steven Zerby - Owens Corning,
Michelle Greene - Masco Corporation

Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected] 
MichiganCIO Executive Director: Jen Wise, [email protected] 

Meet 29 CIO of the Year® Finalists for the NewYorkCIO ORBIE® Awards, held December 4, 2020.

Dr. Sam Amirfar - The Brooklyn Hospital Center,
Daniel J. Barchi - Presbyterian Hospital,
Dr. Claus Jensen - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,
Uday Madasu - Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services,
Jamie Nelson - Hospital for Special Surgery,
Karen Beebe - Vineyard Vines,
Gerard Pento - Wilson Elser,
Steve Randich - FINRA,
Andy Rhodes - UNICEF USA,
Parag Agrawal - Chobani,
Suvajit Basu - Goya Foods Inc,
Cindy Finkelman - FactSet Research Systems,
Arnie Leap - 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Inc.,
Michael Salas - SUEZ North America,
Raj Bhatti - Newmark Knight Frank,
Michelle Garvey - J Crew,
Stewart Gibson - USI Insurance Services,
David Hunter - AMC Networks,
Steve Mills - iHeartMedia Inc.,
Beth Boucher - Sirius Group,
Nicholas Daffan - Verisk,
Carmine Lizza - Lazard,
Vipul Nagrath - ADP Inc.,
Pawan Verma - Foot Locker Inc.,
Lori Beer - JPMorgan Chase & Co.,
Sal Cucchiara - Morgan Stanley,
Lidia Fonseca - Pfizer Inc.,
Steve Lord - The Hartford,
Fletcher Previn - IBM

Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected] 
NewYorkCIO Executive Director: Monique Cook, [email protected] 

Meet 22 CIO of the Year® Finalists for the SeattleCIO ORBIE® Awards, held November 13, 2020. 

Tanya Hannah - King County,
Sasi Pillay - Washington State University,
Liza Klumpar - Franklin Pierce Schools,
BJ Moore - Providence,
Dr. Zafar Chaudry - Seattle Children's,
Ellen Wiegand - Virginia Mason Health System,
Ravi Soin - Edifecs Inc.,
Martin Rues - Outreach Corporation,
Chris Carter - Blueprint Technologies,
Val Grasparil - Brighton Jones,
Kari Escobedo - Bartell Drugs,
Chip Suttles - Seattle Seahawks,
Bob Johnson - Kidder Mathews,
John Michael Gross - Cascade Environmental,
Steven Gallagher - Avenue5 Residential,
Judith Henderson - Farmers Life,
Laury Miller - Seattle Genetics,
Jenny Moshea - Sellen Construction,
Cody Sanford - T-Mobile,
Vivek Singh - Zones,
Michele Bleser - Slalom,
Sue Taylor - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,

Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected] 
SeattleCIO Executive Director: Lindsey Estep, [email protected] 

Meet 29 CIO of the Year® Finalists for the CapitalCIO ORBIE® Awards, held November 20, 2020.

Richard Perreault - National Rural Utility Cooperative,
Rizwan Jan - HJF,
Keith McIntosh - University of Richmond,
Eli Hertz - USO Inc,
Khuloud Odeh - Urban Institute,
Joel Klein - University of Maryland Medical System,
Venkat Koshanam - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange,
Dwight Raum - Johns Hopkins Medicine,
Michael Mistretta - Virginia Hospital Center,
Kathleen Perry - Mercy Health Services,
Lawrence Anderson - U.S. Department of Commerce,
Jamie Holcombe - United States Patent and Trademark Office,
Rob Mancini - Prince William County Government,
Rona Bunn - International Trade Administration,
Brian McGrath - U.S. Department of Justice,
Chris Soong - Alion Science and Technology,
Karthik Venkatesh - Laureate Education,
Lisa Roger - Dewberry,
Brian Hobbs - Gibbs & Cox Inc.,
Gregory Jones - Kajeet Inc.,
Jay Cavalcanto - Exelon Corporation,
BharatAmin - Huntington Ingalls Industries,
Kristie Grinnell - General Dynamics Information Technology,
Brian Bark - Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.,
Mike Uster - ManTech,
Julia Anderson - Smithfield Foods Inc.,
Sanjeev Addala - AES Corp,
Craig Williams - Ciena,
John Lambeth - Maximus

Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected] 
CapitalCIO Executive Director: Jen Wise, [email protected] 

Meet 35 CIO of the Year® Finalists for the GeorgiaCIO ORBIE® Awards, held November 6, 2020.

Gaurav Singal - Georgia Lottery Corporation,
Gary Brantley - The City of Atlanta,
Phillip Ventimiglia - Georgia State University,
Brian Benn - Atlanta Housing Authority,
Jeff May - Georgia Department of Labor,
Geoffrey Brown - Piedmont Healthcare,
Michael Muncy - Aveanna Healthcare,
Jeff Buda - Floyd Medical Center,
Andrew Goodwin - Harbin Clinic,
Jason James - Net Health,
John Slaughter - Alliant Health,
Robert Sheesley - The Wrench Group,
James Hamrick - Gables Residential,
Jay Nayak - Kids2,
Blake Brannon - OneTrust,
Gina Strickland - Miller Zell,
Eric Bradley - TaxSlayer LLC,
Bob Berry - Reef Technology,
Pramesh Naik - Troutman Pepper,
Ross Creasy - Ameris Bank,
Eric Muntz - Mailchimp,
Marcia Calleja - Avanos Medical,
Keith Akin - RPC Inc.,
Raghu Sagi - Inspire Brands,
Michael Sullivan - Southern Company,
Gregory Allarding - Mansfield Energy,
Rohit Lal - Saia Inc.,
Zack Bishop - Synovus Bank,
Ashok Vantipalli - TireHub,
Donie Lochan - Invesco,
Benjamin Pivar - Carter's,
Kim Trevisan - Oldcastle APG,
Scott DuFour - FLEETCOR,
Bates Turpen - Travelport,
Miguel Louzan - LifeScan,

Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected] 
GeorgiaCIO Executive Director: Karen Wilson, [email protected] 

Meet 33 CIO of the Year® Finalists for the BayAreaCIO ORBIE® Awards, held October 29, 2020.

Elena Andreadakis - Federal Home Loan Bank,

Opinder Bawa - University of San Francisco,

Herman            Brown - SF District Attorney's Office,

Sham Chatterjee - Satellite Healthcare Inc,

Rob Lloyd - City of San Jose,

Alvina Antar - Zuora,

Sathis Arasadi - Fremont Bank,

Julie Cullivan - Forescout Technologies,

Yousuf Khan - Automation Anywhere,

Colleen Berube - Zendesk,

Linh Lam - Ellie Mae,

Trevor Schulze - RingCentral Inc.,

Todd Wilson - Clif Bar & Company,

Lyn Campbell - Proofpoint,

Stephen Franchetti - Slack,

Claus Moldt - FICO,

Nat Natarajan - Ancestry,

Kirsten Wolberg - DocuSign,

John Abel - Veritas Technologies LLC,

Kim Bates - Webcor,

Jacob Sorensen - Bank of the West,

Cathy Southwick - Pure Storage,

Sylvie Veilleux - Dropbox,

Tom Cullen - JUUL Labs Inc.,

Prakash Kota - Autodesk,

Adhir Mattu - Marvell Semiconductor Inc.,

Saket Srivastava - Square Inc.,

Naveen Zutshi - Palo Alto Networks,,

Yasir Anwar - Williams-Sonoma Inc.

Sally Gilligan - Gap Inc.,

Ravi Naik - Seagate Technology,,

Andy Nallappan - Broadcom Inc.

Alan Pye - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected]

BayAreaCIO Executive Director: Lourdes Gipson, [email protected] 

Meet the 30 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Finalists for the PhillyCIO ORBIE® Awards, held October 16, 2020.

Randy Gaboriault - ChristianaCare,

Kisha Hortman Hawthorne - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,

EdwardMalinowski - BAYADA Home Health Care,

ThomasPacek - Inspira Health,

Michael Restuccia - Penn Medicine,

John Janthor - Radwell International,

Kelly Kleinfelder - SDI Inc.,

GeorgeKurtas - The Philadelphia Inquirer,

Rajeev Nair - J Knipper & Co,

Louis Pellicori - Glenmede Trust Co.,

Dan Alig - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,

Tony Celebuski - TW Metals LLC,

Robert Ehlinger - Lannett Company Inc.,

Michael Rinehart - Fox Rothschild LLP,

Kim Wismer - Ballard Spahr LLP,

SankhaGhosh - Dollar Financial Corp,

Whitney Kellett - Essential Utilities Inc.,

Dawn Kirchner King - Armstrong World Industries,

Cindy Leavitt - Temple University,

Kelly Lyman - PECO,

Justin Mennen - Rite Aid,

Christer Peltomaa - Comcast Business,

Karla Viglasky - WL Gore & Associates,

Mark Wheeler - City of Philadelphia,

William Zebrowski - Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority,

Dean Del Vecchio - Guardian Life,

Sabina Ewing - Pfizer Upjohn,

Upinder Phanda - Unisys Information Technology,

Courtney Smith Goodrich - Wells Fargo,

Jim Swanson - Johnson & Johnson 

InspireCIO Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected]

PhillyCIO Executive Director: Jen Wise, [email protected] 

Meet 31 CIO of the Year® Finalists for the TwinCitiesCIO ORBIE® Awards, held September 18, 2020.

Idrissa Davis - Saint Paul Public Schools,

Rahoul Ghose - ECMC Group,

Dr. Casey Gordon - College of Saint Benedict,

Jim Jones - Great River Energy,

Michael Thyken - CaringBridge,

Tarek Tomes - State of Minnesota,

Alan Abramson - HealthPartners,

Shahid Alam - BlueCross BlueShield of Minnesota,

Francois Charette - Optum,

Mark Gingrich - Surescripts,

Cris Ross - Mayo Clinic,

Wade Anderson - Bay & Bay Transportation,

Mark Bradley - Robins Kaplan LLP,

Gary Inman - Bell Bank,

Carey Smith - Constellation Mutual,

Steve Swenson - Wolters Kluwer,

Ben Davis - Cambria,

David Hirschkorn - Eide Bailly LLP,

Dennis Keane - Red Wing Shoe,

Rachel Lockett - Pohlad Companies,

Shawn Quant - Piper Sandler Companies,

Troy Cardinal - RSM US LLP,

Sid Gandhi - Securian Financial,

Randy Kupper - Ameriprise Financial,

Mike McGuire - Delta Dental of MN & Abōva Technologies,

Hunter Saklad - Sleep Number,

Julius Chepey - APi Group,

Tammylynne Jonas - Self Esteem Brands,

Bob Olson - Aon,

John Pelant - CWT,

Kurt Svendsen - The Toro Company,

Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected],

TwinCitiesCIO Executive Director: Christa Oglivy, [email protected] 

Meet 25 CIO of the Year® Finalists for the CharlotteCIO ORBIE® Awards, held September 11, 2020.

Brian Baute - Queens University of Charlotte,

David Blattner - Rowan-Salisbury Schools,

Ron Horn - Guilford Technical Community College,

Derek Root - Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools,

Elizabeth Austin - Curvature,

John Bowles - Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP,

Angelic Gibson - AvidXchange,

Curtis Hughes - Midrex Technologies,

Stuart Kippelman - Parsons,

Brian Minnix - Rack Room Shoes,

Darrell Thompson - Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.,

Ray Thornton - Bell Partners Inc,

Andy Crowder - Atrium Health,

Darrell Fernandes - TIAA,

Lety Nettles - Novant Health,

Scott Seese - LPL Financial,

Murali Bandaru - American Tire Distributors Inc.,

Shoukat Ali Bhamani - Schaeffler Group,

Michael Del Priore - Diversey,

Ben Hall - Krispy Kreme,

Patrick Thompson - Albemarle,

Brian Galovich - Collins Aerospace,

Seemantini Godbole - Lowe's,

Tracy Kerrins - Wells Fargo,

Jennifer Manry - Bank of America,

Host: Evan McLaughlin, [email protected]

CharlotteCIO Executive Director: Monique Cook, [email protected]