Winners of 2022 South Florida CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards Announced

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Jun 09, 2022, 10:30 ET

Executives from World Fuel Services Corporation, DHL Express USA Inc., Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits, Inc., Miami Dolphins, & Memorial Healthcare System Recognized for their Achievements

MIAMI, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- SouthFloridaCIO announced the winners of its 2022 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. SouthFloridaCIO recognized chief information officers in six key categories – Leadership, Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Corporate, & Healthcare. The Awards were presented at the South Florida CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards at the Signature Grand.

"Every organization is technology-dependent, but strong leadership is the X-factor that can turn day to day IT into a remarkable strategic differentiator," said Ann Dozier, SouthFloridaCIO Chair. "The ORBIE Awards are meaningful because they are judged by peers – CIOs who understand the challenges of technology leadership."

The 2022 SouthFloridaCIO ORBIE Award winners are:

Chris Drumgoole, COO, DXC Technology received the Leadership ORBIE.
Tricia Ferreira, SVP, Technology Product Management, World Fuel Services Corporation received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $9 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Enna Zarate, VP & CIO, DHL Express USA Inc. received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Ann Dozier, SVP & CIO, Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits, Inc. received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $8 billion annual revenue.
Kim Rometo, VP & CIO, Miami Dolphins received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations up to $600 million annual revenue.
Jeffrey Sturman, SVP & CDO, Memorial Healthcare System received the Healthcare ORBIE for hospitals & 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 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 SouthFloridaCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Chris Drumgoole, COO of DXC Technology, who was interviewed by Larry Quinlan, former Global Chief Information Officer at Deloitte. Over 350 guests attended, representing leading South Florida organizations and their technology partners.

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

Underwriters: Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, & Insight
Gold sponsors: Fortinet, Future Tech, Globant, Pro Logic Systems, & Verizon
Silver sponsors: Divergent, TCS, & Zscaler
Bronze sponsors: Appian, AWS, Between Pixels, Cisco, Deloitte, Delphix, KPMG, NCR, Oracle, Presidio, Recode, ServiceNow, SHI, SoftwareAG, Stratacache, & Talkdesk
National partner: Year Up
Media partner: South Florida Business Journal

About SouthFloridaCIO

SouthFloridaCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of South Florida chief information officers. SouthFloridaCIO 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.

SouthFloridaCIO 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.