Winners of 2022 FloridaCIO ORBIE Awards Announced

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Executives from Deloitte, City of Orlando, Health First, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Nemours, & The Suddath Companies Recognized for their Achievements

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Mar 04, 2022, 11:15 ET

ORLANDO, Fla., March 4, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --FloridaCIO announced the winners of its 2022 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. FloridaCIO recognized chief information officers in six key categories – Leadership, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, & Corporate. The Awards were presented at the FloridaCIO of the Year ORBIE Awards at the Marriott Orlando Downtown.

"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 Brian Shield, InspireCIO National Chair. "The ORBIE Awards are meaningful because they are judged by peers – CIOs who understand the challenges of technology leadership."

The 2022 FloridaCIO ORBIE Award winners are:

Bernie Rice, SVP & CIO, Nemours received the Leadership ORBIE.
Mike Schmidt, CIO, Audit & Assurance, Deloitte (Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Touche Tomatsu Limited) received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $14 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
William Walders, CIO & Sr. VP of Operations Support, Health First received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $1.8 billion annual revenue.
Rosa Akhtarkhavari, CIO, City of Orlando/Information Technology received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue.
Len O'Neill, CIO & SVP, The Suddath Companies received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $500 million annual revenue.
Todd Ryan, CIO, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $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 FloridaCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Fran Dramis, Five-Time Fortune 500 CIO. Over 250 guests attended, representing leading North/Central Florida organizations and their technology partners.

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

Underwriters: Google Cloud & Lumen
Gold sponsors: Feature 23, Fortinet, Greyson Technologies, & Twilio
Bronze sponsors: 3b2 Solutions, Amazon Web Services, Between Pixels, CDW, Delphix, Kanini, OpenGov, Oracle, ServiceNow, Snowflake, United Data Technologies Inc. & WEI
Media partner: Orlando Business Journal
About FloridaCIO

FloridaCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of North/Central Florida chief information officers. FloridaCIO 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.

FloridaCIO 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.