Winners of 2021 MichiganCIO ORBIE Awards Announced
Executives from Ford Motor Company, Little Caesars Enterprises, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Delta Dental of Michigan, NSF International, Urban Science, & Michigan Medicine Recognized for their Achievements
DETROIT, Oct. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- MichiganCIO announced the winners of its 2021 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. MichiganCIO recognized chief information officers in seven key categories – Leadership, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, Corporate, & Healthcare. The MichiganCIO ORBIE Awards were presented virtually.
"The MichiganCIO 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 Jen Wise, Executive Director of MichiganCIO. "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 MichiganCIO ORBIE Award winners are:
- Macy Klevorn, CTO (ret.), Ford Motor Company received the Leadership CIO of the Year ORBIE.
- Anita Klopfenstein, CIO, Little Caesars Enterprises received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $3 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
- Bill Fandrich, SVP & CIO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $3 billion annual revenue.
- Mark Baughman, SVP & CIO, Delta Dental of Michigan received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue.
- Lesley Ma, VP, CIO, & CDAO, NSF International received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $300 million annual revenue.
- Elizabeth Klee, CIO, Urban Science received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $300 million annual revenue.
- Andrew Rosenberg, CIO, Michigan Medicine received the Healthcare ORBIE for hospitals and healthcare organizations.
The CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards is the premier technology executive recognition program in the United States. Since inception in 1998, over 1,800 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 MichiganCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Mike McNamara, EVP & CIO of Target. Over 300 guests attended virtually, representing leading Michigan organizations and their technology partners.
The 2021 MichiganCIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:
- Underwriters: Google Cloud & Lumen
- Gold sponsors: Centric Consulting, Dell Technologies & VMware, Fortinet, HCL, Pluralsight, & Onshore Outsourcing
- Silver sponsors: AHEAD, FPT Software, One Source Communications, Palo Alto Networks, Pure Storage, Rubrik, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Strategic Staffing Solutions, Workday, Zoom, & Zscaler
- Bronze sponsors: Accenture, Between Pixels, Delphix, Microsoft, Perficient, TIBCO, US Signal, & Wipro
- National partner: Year Up
- Media partner: Crain's Detroit Business
About MichiganCIO
MichiganCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of Michigan chief information officers. MichiganCIO 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.
MichiganCIO 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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Media Contact
Lexi Ballard, MichiganCIO, +1 4042135461, [email protected]
Jen Wise, MichiganCIO, [email protected]
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