Winners of 2021 St.LouisCIO ORBIE Awards Announced
Executives from Centene, Edward Jones, Ameren, Panera Bread, Cass Information Systems, and BJC Healthcare Recognized for their Achievements
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- St.LouisCIO announced the winners of its 2021 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. St.LouisCIO recognized chief information officers in six key categories – Leadership, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, Corporate, & Healthcare. The St.LouisCIO ORBIE Awards were presented virtually.
"The St.LouisCIO 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 Tabitha Sarris, Executive Director of St.LouisCIO. "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 St.LouisCIO ORBIE Award winners are:
- Mark Brooks, EVP & CIO, Centene received the Leadership CIO of the Year ORBIE.
- Frank LaQuinta, CIO, Edward Jones received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $8 billion annual revenue.
- Bhavani Amirthalingam, SVP & Chief Digital Information Officer, Ameren received the Enterprise ORBIE, for organizations over $2.5 billion annual revenue.
- John Meister, SVP & CIO, Panera Bread received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue.
- Jim Cavellier, EVP & CIO, Cass Information Systems received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $1 billion annual revenue.
- Jerry Fox, SVP, CIO & CDO, BJC Healthcare received the Healthcare ORBIE for hospitals, healthcare, and other nonprofit health 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 St.LouisCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Raghu Raghuram, CEO of VMWare. Over 250 guests attended virtually, representing leading Greater St. Louis organizations and their technology partners.
The 2021 St.LouisCIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:
- Underwriters: Burwood Group, Google Cloud, & Technology Partners
- Gold sponsors: Fortinet, Pluralsight, Tata Consultancy Services, & Zscaler
- Silver sponsors: Deloitte, Flexential, HCL, Palo Alto Networks, Snowflake, VMWare & Workday
- Bronze sponsors: Between Pixels, Connectria, Delphix, InterVision, Okta, Procore, TIBCO, & World Wide Technologies
- National partner: Year Up
- Media partner: St. Louis Business Journal
About St.LouisCIO
St.LouisCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of Greater St. Louis chief information officers. St.LouisCIO 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.
St.LouisCIO 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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Media Contact
Lexi Ballard, St.LouisCIO, +1 4042135461, [email protected]
Tabitha Sarris, St.LouisCIO, [email protected]
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