Winners of 2022 Houston CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards Announced

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Apr 22, 2022, 12:00 ET

Executives from The Friedkin Group, McDermott, Memorial Hermann Health System, Motiva Enterprises, Plains All American Pipeline, Sysco, & U.S. Silica Recognized for their Achievements

HOUSTON, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- HoustonCIO announced the winners of its 2022 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. HoustonCIO recognized chief information officers in seven key categories – Leadership, Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Corporate, & Nonprofit/Public Sector. The Awards were presented at the Houston CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards at the Marriott Marquis Houston.

"Every organization is technology-dependent, but strong leadership is the X-factor that drives innovation, motivates teams and is the strategic differentiator for success," said Kristy Simonette, HoustonCIO Chair. "The ORBIE Awards are meaningful because they are judged by peers – CIOs who understand the challenges of technology leadership."

The 2022 HoustonCIO ORBIE Award winners are:

Al Lindseth, SVP, Technology, Process and Risk Management Plains All American Pipeline (fmr) received the Leadership ORBIE.
Tom Peck, EVP, CIO, & CDO, Sysco received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $20 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Vagesh Dave, Global VP & CIO, McDermott received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Anthony Dayao, CIO, Motiva Enterprises received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $3 billion annual revenue.
Ken Piddington, VP & CIO, U.S. Silica received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $500 million annual revenue.
Rennu Varghese, VP & CIO, The Friedkin Group received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $500 million annual revenue.
Amanda Hammel, SVP & CIO, Memorial Hermann Health System received the Nonprofit/Public Sector ORBIE for healthcare, education & public sector organizations over $500 million 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 500 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 HoustonCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Jed Yueh, Founder & CEO of Delphix. Nearly 450 guests attended, representing leading Houston organizations and their technology partners.

The 2022 HoustonCIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:

Underwriters: Athenian Consulting Group, BlueSky IT Partners, Google Cloud, Lumen, & Pariveda Solutions
Gold sponsors: Deloitte, Fortinet, Netskope, NTT Global, ServiceNow, & Twilio
Silver sponsors: Accenture, Cloudflare, DXC Technology, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Okta, Rubrik, SHI International, Snowflake, Tata Consultancy Services, & Zscaler
Bronze sponsors: Between Pixels, BlackBerry, CDW, Delphix, Netsync, Perficient, Protiviti, RSM, SentinelOne, TIBCO, & World Wide Technology
Media partner: Houston Business Journal

About HoustonCIO

HoustonCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of Houston chief information officers. HoustonCIO is one of 25 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.

HoustonCIO 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.