Winners of 2023 Wisconsin ORBIE Awards Announced By WisconsinCIO

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Jun 23, 2023, 12:00 ET

Executives from American Family Insurance, Generac Power Systems, University of Wisconsin Health System, Vituity, Fox World Travel, & Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club Recognized for their Achievements

MILWAUKEE, June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- WisconsinCIO announced the winners of its 2023 ORBIE® Awards. WisconsinCIO recognized technology executives in six key categories – Leadership, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, Corporate. The Awards were presented at the Wisconsin ORBIE Awards at Hyatt Regency Milwaukee.

"Member-led, non-commercial programs like the ORBIE Awards, build meaningful professional relationships with colleagues facing similar challenges, solving problems and avoiding pitfalls," said Allen Smith, WisconsinCIO Chair. "Successful leaders understand the 'superpower' of trusted relationships. In any gathering of technology leaders, the answer is in the room."

The 2023 Wisconsin ORBIE Award winners are:

Sheldon Cuffie, Enterprise CIO, American Family Insurance received the Leadership ORBIE.
Tim Dickson, CIO, Generac Power Systems received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $3 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Chero Goswami, SVP & CIO, University of Wisconsin Health System received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $2 billion annual revenue.
Amith Nair, CIO, Vituity received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue.
Sam Hilgendorf, CIO, Fox World Travel received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $400 million annual revenue.
Derek Hyde, VP, IT, Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $400 million annual revenue.

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 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 Wisconsin ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Sheldon Cuffie, Enterprise CIO of American Family Insurance, who was interviewed by Neal Sample, CIO of Northwestern Mutual (fmr). Nearly 400 guests attended, representing leading Wisconsin organizations and their technology partners.

The 2023 Wisconsin ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:

WisconsinCIO Underwriters: Baker Tilly, Concord, Google Cloud, Lumen & Snowflake
Gold sponsors: Appian, Burwood Group, Check Point Software Technologies, Fortinet, SoftwareOne, Inc., Tata Consultancy Services
Silver sponsors: AE Business Solutions, AHEAD, Cloudflare, Insight, Okta, Slalom Consulting & Sparq
Bronze sponsors: Between Pixels, Converge Technology Solutions, HCLTech, Impower.AI, Moveworks, NVISIA, OneNeck IT Solutions LLC, Redzone
Media partner: Milwaukee Business Journal

About WisconsinCIO

WisconsinCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of Wisconsin chief information officers. WisconsinCIO 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.