Winners of 2023 Boston ORBIE Awards Announced By BostonCIO
Executives from Akamai, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Citizens, Teradyne, Inc., Progress Software Corp, Signature Healthcare, & Liberty Mutual Insurance Recognized for their Achievements
BOSTON, May 5, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BostonCIO announced the winners of its 2023 ORBIE® Awards. BostonCIO recognized technology executives in seven key categories – Leadership, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, Corporate, and for the first time ever, CISO. The Awards were presented at the Boston ORBIE Awards at the Westin Copley Place.
"Member-led, non-commercial programs like the ORBIE Awards, build meaningful professional relationships with colleagues facing similar challenges, solving problems and avoiding pitfalls," said Bob Solis, BostonCIO Chair. "Successful leaders understand the 'superpower' of trusted relationships. In any gathering of technology leaders, we have all come to know 'the answer is in the room'."
The 2023 Boston ORBIE Award winners are:
›› Dr. Tom Leighton, CEO & Co-Founder, Akamai received the Leadership ORBIE.
›› Gabriele Ricci, Chief Data & Technology Officer, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $10 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
›› Michael Ruttledge, CIO, Head of Technology Services, Citizens received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $4 billion annual revenue.
›› Shannon Gath, CIO, Teradyne, Inc. received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue.
›› Ian Pitt, CIO, EVP, Progress Software Corp received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $500 million annual revenue.
›› Nicholas Szymanski, VP & CIO, Signature Healthcare received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $500 million annual revenue.
›› Katie Jenkins, EVP & CISO, Liberty Mutual Insurance received the CISO ORBIE for Chief Information Security Officers.
The ORBIE Awards is the premier technology executive recognition program in the United States. Since inception in 1998, over 700 technology leaders have received the prestigious ORBIE Award. The ORBIE honors chief information officers & chief information security officers who have demonstrated excellence in 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 Boston ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Dr. Tom Leighton, CEO & Co-Founder of Akamai, who was interviewed by Don Anderson, CIO of Tiger Global Management. Over 350 guests attended, representing leading New England organizations and their technology partners.
The 2023 Boston ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:
›› BostonCIO Underwriters: Akamai, Comcast, Google Cloud, FPT Software, Markley
›› Gold sponsors: Deloitte, Fortinet, PwC, Snowflake, SoftServe, Inc.
›› Silver sponsors: Box, CE Tech, Cloudflare, Kaamwork, MicroStrategy, Okta, Slalom Consulting, Sparq, Tata Consultancy Services, Thrive Networks Inc., VMWare
›› Bronze sponsors: Apex Systems, Aqueduct Technologies, Between Pixels, Beyondsoft, CDW, Cyware, Dell Technologies, Ernst & Young, firstPRO, Inc., Infosys, WekalO, World Wide Technology
›› Media partner: Boston Business Journal
›› National partner: Year Up
›› About BostonCIO
BostonCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of New England chief information officers. BostonCIO is one of over 30 chapters of the Inspire Leadership Network, a national membership organization comprised exclusively of CIOs from public and private businesses, government, education, healthcare and nonprofit institutions.
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›› About BostonCISO
BostonCISO will be one of the first CISO chapters in the Inspire Leadership Network—bringing the same member-led, non-commercial approach which has attracted over 1,000 CIO members in over 30 chapters to the CISO community.
›› For more information, contact BostonCISO Executive Director, Amy Abbott: [email protected]
›› Stay connected with BostonCIO at: http://www.linkedin.com/company/BostonCIO
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SOURCE Boston CIO Leadership Association
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