Winners of 2021 CharlotteCIO ORBIE Awards Announced

By Heath Fellows.
Updated Sep 10, 2021

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (PRWEB) September 10, 2021 - CharlotteCIO announced the winners of its 2021 CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards. CharlotteCIO recognized chief information officers in seven key categories Leadership, Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, & Corporate. The CharlotteCIO ORBIE Awards were presented virtually.

The CharlotteCIO ORBIE winners demonstrate the significance of strong technology leadership in these uncertain times. Over the past year, CIOs are leading in unprecedented ways and enabling the largest work-from-home experiment in history, according to Tabitha Sarris, Executive Director of CharlotteCIO. The ORBIE Awards are meaningful because they are judged by peers - CIOs who understand how difficult this job is and why great leadership matters.

The 2021 CharlotteCIO ORBIE Award winners are:

Cathy Bessant, Chief Operations & Technology Officer, Bank of America received the Leadership CIO of the Year ORBIE.

Cynthia Miller, CDO, Hanesbrands received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $7 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.

Murali Bandaru, EVP & Chief Information & Digital Officer, American Tire Distributors received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.

Aaron Gwinner, SVP & CIO, Reynolds American received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $10 billion annual revenue.

Rich Rogers, SVP & CIO, Prisma Health received the Enterprise ORBIE, for organizations up to $7 billion annual revenue.

Kevin Eamigh, CIO & VP, Global Business Services, SPX FLOW, Inc. received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $2 billion annual revenue.

Michael Taylor, CIO, Deputy County Manager, Pitt County received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $1 billion annual revenue.

The CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards is the premier technology executive recognition program in the United States. Since inception in 1998, over 1,800 CIOs have been honored as finalists and over 400 CIO of the Year winners have received the prestigious ORBIE Award. The ORBIE honors chief information officers who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership. Finalists and winners are selected by an independent peer review process, led by prior ORBIE recipients, based upon:

Leadership and management effectiveness

Business value created by technology innovation

Engagement in industry and community endeavors

The CharlotteCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Jim Whitehurst, Senior Advisor of IBM. Over 400 guests attended virtually, representing leading Charlotte organizations and their technology partners.

The 2021 CharlotteCIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:

Underwriters: VeriStor, Dell Technologies, Insight, Google Cloud, & Cigniti

Gold sponsors: Fortinet, SoftServe, Citrix, Flexera, Twillo, & Synechron

Silver sponsors: ServiceNow, Hylaine, Slalom, Persistent, Zscaler, Innovien Solutions, & Tata Consultancy Services

Bronze sponsors: TIBCO, Internetwork Engineering, CDW, NCR, Miraclesoft, Publicis Sapient, Clearsense/Optimum, Cognizant, Macro Integration Services, FireEye, ThoughtWorks, Nordic, Mindtree, & Between Pixels

National partner: Year Up

Media partner: Charlotte Business Journal

About CharlotteCIO

CharlotteCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of Charlotte chief information officers. CharlotteCIO is one of 21 chapters of the InspireCIO Leadership Network, a national membership organization comprised exclusively of CIOs from public and private businesses, government, education, healthcare and nonprofit institutions.

CharlotteCIO is led by a CIO Advisory Board, supported by an executive director and staff. Underwriter executives ensure programs remain non-commercial and exclusive to qualified CIOs and members.

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