Winners of 2022 Bay Area CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards Announced

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Sep 09, 2022, 14:00 ET

Executives from Blue Shield of California, Seagate Technology, Equinix, Lyft, Five9, Procore, Workato & Apple Recognized for their Achievements.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BayAreaCIO announced the winners of its 2022 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. BayAreaCIO recognized chief information officers in seven key categories – Super Global, Global, Healthcare Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, & Corporate. The Awards were presented at the Bay Area CIO ORBIE Awards at Hyatt Regency Santa Clara.

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

The 2022 Bay Area CIO ORBIE Award winners are:

Dave Smoley, VP, Apple received the Leadership ORBIE.
Ravi Naik, CIO & EVP, Seagate Technology received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $10 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Milind Wagle, EVP & CIO, Equinix received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $3 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Lisa Davis, SVP & CIO, Blue Shield of California received the Healthcare ORBIE for healthcare & hospital organizations.
Amy Farrow, CIO, Lyft received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $2 billion annual revenue.
Tony Sorensen, CIO, Five9 received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $700 million annual revenue.
Ellora Sengupta, VP & Head of Business Technology, Procore received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $400 million annual revenue.
Carter Busse, CIO, Workato received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $400 million annual revenue.

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 Bay Area CIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Dheeraj Pandey, Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman at DevRev.ai. Over 400 guests attended, representing leading Bay Area organizations and their technology partners.

The 2022 Bay Area CIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:

Underwriters: Google Cloud, Lumen, Milestone, Okta, & Snowflake
Gold sponsors: Cloudflare, Comcast Business, Fortinet, Twilio, Unify Consulting, & Workato
Silver sponsors: AHEAD, Aviatrix, Delphix, Espressive, HCL, Palo Alto Networks, Pluralsight, SGIC Cloud Tech, Slack, Tata Consultancy Services, & VMware
Bronze sponsors: Dell Technologies, Protiviti, Slalom Consulting, V2Solutions, & World Wide Technology
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 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.

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.