Winners of 2022 DallasCIO ORBIE Awards Announced

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Executives from AccentCare, American Airlines, CHRISTUS Health, Parkland Health, PepsiCO, Rangers Baseball LLC, & ReliableParts Recognized for their Achievements

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Feb 25, 2022, 11:00 ET

DALLAS, Feb. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- DallasCIO announced the winners of its 2022 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. DallasCIO recognized chief information officers in seven key categories – Leadership, Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, & Corporate. The Awards were presented at the Dallas CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards at the OMNI Dallas.

"Every organization is technology-dependent, but strong leadership is the X-factor that can turn mundane IT into a remarkable strategic differentiator," according to Michelle Johnson, DallasCIO Chair. "The ORBIE Awards are significant because they are judged by peers – CIOs who understand the challenges of technology leadership."

The 2022 DallasCIO ORBIE Award winners are:

Robert Dixon, CIO, PepsiCO (ret) received the Leadership ORBIE.
Maya Leibman, EVP & CIO, American Airlines received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $12 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Jonathan Manis, SVP & CIO, CHRISTUS Health received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.
Joseph Longo, SVP & CIO, Parkland Health received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $2 billion annual revenue.
Brett Lansing, CIO, AccentCare received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $400 million annual revenue.
Muthusamy Nagarajan, CIO & CTO, ReliableParts received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations over $200 million annual revenue.
Michael Bullock, Vice President, Rangers Baseball LLC received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $200 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 DallasCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Bob Priest-Heck, CEO of Freeman. About 600 guests attended, representing leading North Texas organizations and their technology partners.

The 2022 DallasCIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:

Underwriters: Insight, Lumen, Pariveda Solutions, Qentelli, & Splunk
Gold sponsors: Allata, Cigniti, Fortinet, Google Cloud, Infogain Corp, Tata Consultancy Services, ThinkSys, Unify Consulting
Silver sponsors: AHEAD, Cloudflare, Dell Technologies, DXC Technology, FPT Software, Flexera, Impact Advisors, Kyndryl, Okta, Snowflake, VMWare, & Zscaler
Bronze sponsors: Between Pixels, BizCloud Experts, Citrix Systems, Inc., Delphix, KS2 Technologies, Perficient, Protiviti, Pyramid Technology Solutions, Salesforce, Saxon Global, SBASE Technologies, SHI International, Slack, Talkdesk, & Veritis Group
National partner: Year Up
Media partner: Dallas Business Journal
About DallasCIO

DallasCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of North Texas chief information officers. DallasCIO 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.

DallasCIO 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.