Winners of 2022 Chicago CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards Announced

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May 13, 2022, 15:00 ET

Executives from Abbott, Allstate, ATI Physical Therapy, Oshkosh Corporation, Stericycle Inc., Tokio Marine Highland, & UL LLC Recognized for their Achievements

CHICAGO, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ChicagoCIO announced the winners of its 2022 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. ChicagoCIO recognized chief information officers in seven key categories – Leadership, Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, & Corporate. The Awards were presented at the Chicago CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards at the Marriott Marquis Chicago.

"Every organization is now a digital business, strong leadership is the X-factor that transforms that business into a strategic differentiator," said Lisa Dykstra, ChicagoCIO Chair. "The CIO is uniquely positioned with a direct view into the many facets and complexities across the organization. The ORBIE Awards are meaningful because they are judged by peers – CIOs who understand the challenges of technology leadership."

The 2022 ChicagoCIO ORBIE Award winners are:

Suren Gupta, EVP Technology, Strategic Ventures and International Operations, Allstate received the Leadership ORBIE.
Sabina Ewing, VP, Business & Technology Services, Abbott received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $10 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Karriem Shakoor, SVP & CIO, UL LLC received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Anupam Khare, SVP & CIO, Oshkosh Corporation received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $3.5 billion annual revenue.
Jenet Zelenka, EVP, CFO & CIO, Stericycle Inc. received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $750 million annual revenue.
Augustus Oakes, CIO, ATI Physical Therapy received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $300 million annual revenue.
Kiran Achen, SVP & CIO, Tokio Marine Highland received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $300 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 ChicagoCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Suren Gupta, EVP Technology, Strategic Ventures and International Operations at Allstate who was interviewed by Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (ret). About 600 guests attended, representing leading Chicagoland organizations and their technology partners.
The 2022 ChicagoCIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:

Underwriters: Burwood Group, Inc., Insight, Lumen, Splunk, & TEKSystems
Gold sponsors: Fortinet, Google Cloud, PwC, Slalom Consulting, TATA Consultancy Services, Twilio, & Unify Consulting
Silver sponsors: AHEAD, Bourntec Solutions, Inc., CDW, Cloudflare, Deloitte, DXC Technology, FPT Software, Globant, Maven Wave, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, Pluralsight, Rubrik, Slack Technologies, Snowflake, & VMware
Bronze sponsors: Accenture, Between Pixels, Birlasoft, Capgemini, Comcast Business, Delphix, Netskope, Palantir, Protiviti, Sapiens, IT Savvy, & TIBCO
National partner: Year Up
Media partner: Crain's Chicago Business

About ChicagoCIO

ChicagoCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of Chicagoland chief information officers. ChicagoCIO 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.

ChicagoCIO 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.