Winners of Inaugural National CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards Announced

By Samantha Herron.
Updated Jul 22, 2021

ATLANTA (PRWEB) July 22, 2021 - InspireCIO Leadership Network announced the winners of its inaugural National CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards. InspireCIO recognized chief information officers in eight key categories Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, Corporate, Healthcare, and Nonprofit/Public Sector.

The 2021 National CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards winners are:

Mamatha Chamarthi, CIO, Stellantis received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $16 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.

Donie Lochan, CTO, Invesco received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $2 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.

Kristie Grinnell, Global CIO, VP IT & SCM, GDIT received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $3 billion annual revenue.

Michael Mathews, SVP & CIO, Deluxe received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $1.5 billion annual revenue.

Usman Waheed, Chief Information & Technology Officer, Knoll received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue.

Joan Kuehl, EVP & CIO, Elevate Credit, Inc. received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $1 billion annual revenue.

Craig Richardville, SVP, Chief Information & Digital Officer, SCL Health received the Healthcare ORBIE for hospitals & healthcare organizations.

Tanya Hannah, CIO, King County, WA received the Nonprofit/Public Sector ORBIE for government, education & nonprofit organizations.

The CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards is the premier technology executive recognition program in the United States. Since inception in 1998, over 1,500 CIOs have been honored as finalists and over 350 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 2021 National ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:

Gold sponsors: SADA, Fortinet, Zscaler, & Zoom

Silver sponsors: MavenWave

Bronze sponsors: Amdocs, Ballast Services, iVision, ReCode Solutions, AWS, Accenture, Qualys, Nutanix, Impact Advisors, Endava, Salesforce, Cerner, Deloitte, Publicis Sapient & Between Pixels

National partner: Year Up

The winners were announced live on July 22, 2021 during the virtual National ORBIE Awards, hosted by the National ORBIE Awards Chair, Jay Ferro, Global CIO of ERT. Jay says, CIO leadership superpowers come from having a strong professional network not just among leading CIOs in your community but knowing CIOs everywhere.

About InspireCIO

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

Each of the 21 chapters within InspireCIO 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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