Winners of 2021 BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards Announced

Executives from Lumentum, AMD, Autodesk, Varian Medical Systems, Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies, Zendesk, Guardant Health, & Stanford Children's Health Recognized for their Achievements

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Sep 24, 2021, 13:30 ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BayAreaCIO announced the winners of its 2021 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. BayAreaCIO recognized chief information officers in eight key categories – Leadership, Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, Corporate, & Public Sector. The BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards were presented virtually.

"The BayAreaCIO 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 Lourdes Gipson, Executive Director of BayAreaCIO. "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 BayAreaCIO ORBIE Award winners are:

  • Ralph Loura, SVP & CIO, Lumentum received the Leadership CIO of the Year ORBIE.
  • Mark Papermaster, CTO & EVP, AMD received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $10 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
  • Prakash Kota, SVP & CIO, Autodesk received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $3 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
  • Tom Rodden, CIO & SVP, Varian Medical Systems received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $1.5 billion annual revenue.
  • Christopher Desautel, SVP & CDO, Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies received the Enterprise ORBIE, for organizations over $1.3 billion annual revenue.
  • Colleen Berube, CIO & SVP Operations, Zendesk received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $700 million annual revenue.
  • Kumud Kalia, CIO, Guardant Health received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $700 million annual revenue.
  • Edward Kopetsky, SVP & CIO, Stanford Children's Health received the Public Sector ORBIE for healthcare, education, & public sector 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 BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Jim Whitehurst, Senior Advisor of IBM. Nearly 450 guests attended virtually, representing leading Bay Area organizations and their technology partners.

The 2021 BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:

  • Underwriters: Google Cloud, Lumen, Milestone, Okta, & Snowflake
  • Gold sponsors: Delphix, Fortinet, Mactores, Pluralsight, & Unify Consulting
  • Silver sponsors: AHEAD, Akamai, Comcast Business, Espressive, Fiserv, Productiv, Rubrik, ServiceNow, VMware, & Workato
  • Bronze sponsors: Accenture, Between Pixels, Dell Technologies, FPT, HCL, Moveworks, PwC, Salesforce, SGIC, Splunk, & TIBCO
  • National partner: Year Up
  • Media partner: San Francisco Business Times

›› About BayAreaCIO

BayAreaCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of Bay Area chief information officers. BayAreaCIO 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.

BayAreaCIO 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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