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October 30- November 5, 2020 CONGRATULATIONS 2020 GEORGIACIO OF THE YEAR® AWARDS NOMINEES JOHN ADAMSON JOSEPH DROUIN STEVEN MCWILLIAMS Floor & Décor PulteGroup Georgia Hospital Association DAN AGRONOW SCOTT DUFOUR GREGORY MILLER Sharecare, Inc. FleetCore Technologies Genuine Parts KEITH AKIN JULIE ELMORE TIMOTHY MITCHELL RPC Dollar General Delta Community Credit Union GREG ALLARDING RYAN ESPARZA MICHAEL MUNCY Mansfield Energy Jackson Healthcare Aveanna Healthcare MATT BALL JAY FISHER ERIC MUNTZ ParkMobile BrandSafway Mailchimp

TERRY BARGY LARRY FREY PRAMESH NAIK W.C. Bradley Co. Beazer Homes Troutman Pepper MERRITT BEAVER MITCH GERSTEN JAY NAYAK State of Georgia - Secretary of State Cox Automotive Kids2 BRIAN BENN RICH GILBERT ADAM NOBLE Atlanta Housing Authority Aflac Veritiv BOB BERRY ANDREW GOODWIN ONOME OKUMA Reef Technology Harbin Clinic Chick-fil-A ZACK BISHOP SALLIE GRAVES BEN PIVAR Synovus Bank MagMutual Holding and Insurance Carter’s Companies ERIC BRADLEY DAN GUSTAFSON KEN POINSETTE TaxSlayer, LLC Newell Rubbermaid Fulton County Government BLAKE BRANNON TOM HALL VIJAY RAGHAVAN OneTrust Genuine Parts LexisNexis GARY BRANTLEY JAMES HAMRICK DARRELL RIEKENA The City of Atlanta Gables Residential Republic National Distributing Co. GEOFFREY BROWN KEVIN HART MICHELLE ROUTH Piedmont Healthcare Cox Enterprises Care USA JEFF BUDA PAM HOLT GUIDO SACCHI Floyd Medical Center Rheem Manufacturing Global Payments SHERYL BUNTON DAVE HUDSON RAGHU SAGI Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. Insight Global Inspire Brands DAVID BURKART BRET HURST RAHUL SAMANT Herschend Entertainment Corp. PruittHealth Delta Air Lines MARCIA CALLEJA-MATSKO JASON JAMES HABIB SARKIS Avanos Medical Net Health GE Digital WALT CARTER BRYANT KING ROBERT SHEESLEY Homestar Financial Corp. Holder Construction The Wrench Group SCOTT CASE EASWARAN KRISHNAMURTHY MAURICE SIMPKINS Truist FieldCore, a GE Company AMSimpkins & Associates TIMOTHY CHESTER VENKAT KRISHNAN GAURAV SINGAL University of Georgia State of Georgia - Georgia Georgia Lottery Corporation Department of Human Services STEVE CLANCEY ROHIT LAL KAIZER SIRAJ Georgia-Pacific Corporation LLC Saia, Inc. Safe-Guard Products BARRY COHEN JOHN SLAUGHTER BOBBY LAURINE Alliant Health Asbury Automotive Group University System of Georgia JEFFREY SMITH SUZI CONNOR Department of Health and Human ROCKY LIVINGSTON Atlanta Technical College Services - Centers for Disease USAN Control and Prevention GINA STRICKLAND Miller Zell CHARLES COOPER DONIE LOCHAN Clark Atlanta University Invesco MICHAEL SULLIVAN Southern Company / Gas RICHARD COX MIGUEL LOUZAN Technology Solutions Cox Enterprises LifeScan KIM TREVISAN Oldcastle APG NICK CRAVEN MATTHEW MADDOX Primerica Roark Capital Group BATES TURPEN Travelport ROSS CREASY ROBERT MARBURGER Ameris Bank Alston & Bird ASHOK VANTIPALLI TireHub KESLIE DANIELS GALEN MARTIN Cobb EMC Gwinnett Technical College PHIL VENTIMIGLIA Georgia State University MARLA DAVIDSON JEFF MAY Habitat State of Georgia - Department GENE WEILAND of Labor Capstone Logistics MARTIN DAVIS JEFF MAYHAND MARC WEST Southern Company W.C. Bradley Co. Fiserv JESSE DIAZ CHRIS MCDANIEL DWAIN WILCOX Phoebe Putney Smith, Gambrell & Russell Thyssenkrupp Elevator OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5, 2020 ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE 3

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR CIOs enable largest remote work experiment in history t the beginning of 2020, no one member-led, non-commercial programs, everyone wins when leaders unite, align could have imagined the enor- CIOs build meaningful professional rela- and work together. A mous change we would all expe- tionships with colleagues facing similar For more than 20 years, InspireCIO has rience in the first year of this new decade. challenges, solving problems and avoid- been inspiring CIO success through the By mid-March, chief information ing pitfalls. This mission has never been annual CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards, officers everywhere began to realize more important than in 2020. and this is just the tip of the iceberg. By that their systems and teams would be From the beginning of the Covid-19 joining GeorgiaCIO, technology execu- stretched beyond belief in the largest pandemic, GeorgiaCIO members have tives take their leadership to the next lev- work-from-home experiment in world participated in regular local virtual col- el through year-round, member-led pro- history. Thanks to cloud systems, collabo- laborations and national virtual calls fea- grams and interaction. The power of CIOs ration tools and services created by tech- turing CIOs from industry, higher educa- working together – across public and pri- nology innovators, we have held virtual tion, healthcare and technology. In any vate business, government, education, meetings, had food and goods delivered gathering of CIOs, the answer is in the healthcare and nonprofit organizations to our front steps, and remained connect- room. The challenge one CIO is facing has – creates enormous value for all involved. ed to colleagues, friends and family. His- likely been solved by another CIO. What Together, we are transforming our tory will show we adapted, survived and was their experience? What did they organizations with technology and adjusted to our new normal. learn? What would they do differently? enriching our region and our world. On CIOs have led this overnight trans- How could other CIOs benefit from shar- behalf of GeorgiaCIO, congratulations SPECIAL formation from office-based to remote ing their experiences? to the nominees and finalists on their Marie Mouchet is vice president and work environments. Without their plan- Peer-based leadership groups pro- accomplishments, and thank you to the CIO of Colonial Pipeline Company. ning and implementation of the sys- vide a valuable return when leaders sponsors, underwriters and staff who tems and services to support remote engage and share a common problem set make the ORBIE Awards possible. work, conducting business would have enable digital business to prosper. together. The vertical/industry and size/ been impossible. As a result of Covid-19, GeorgiaCIO is an executive peer lead- scale might be different, however, sim- Sincerely, there’s greater value placed on CIOs and ership network focused on helping CIOs ilar approaches to effective leadership the technological sophistication they maximize their leadership effectiveness, and problem solving are transferrable. Marie Mouchet bring to their companies to provide create value, reduce risk and share suc- Every CIO leader’s perspective is valuable Chair, GeorgiaCIO secure, available and scalable systems to cess. Convening Georgia’s leading CIOs in and contributes to the conversation, and VP & CIO, Colonial Pipeline Company

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“The general prevailing sentiment is, if you’re in a job category that can be performed well remotely, we still want to maintain the ability to come together in the office, even if we don’t do that every day.”

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KEYNOTE IT depts: mission critical CIOs will evolve from their pandemic roles BY RANDY SOUTHERLAND | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

oday’s chief information officers make sure we maintain our security have visibility into what’s happening (CIOs) are facing challenges on posture?” on the endpoints, regardless of wheth- T every front. Charged with mod- IBM’s IT infrastructure worked, er someone’s connected to the VPN or ernizing and protecting critical infra- “We’ve gone even in the midst of disruptions like not. So if it’s me on a device, but I’m structure, they must be adept at man- business and school shutdowns, he [working at a coffee shop] and I’m aging the unexpected, such as enabling through this added. doing something unusual, we might an entire workforce to operate from incredible stress “We’ve gone through this incred- make some decisions about containing home without missing a beat. ible stress test of the system and, by you or limiting access for that period The challenges and opportunities test of the system and large, it’s held up incredibly well,” of time.” confronting the modern CIO is the top- said Previn. “The data corroborates that Perhaps one of the biggest lessons ic of IBM CIO Fletcher Previn’s keynote and, by and people are really working and being of the pandemic is how critical the IT address at this year’s 2020 Georgia CIO large, it’s held quite productive remotely.” department is to every company, Pre- ORBIE Awards, this year held virtual- What has yet to come into focus is vin noted. ly on Nov. 6. up incredibly the long-term impact of work-from- “There is no such thing as a non-dig- Previn leads a global team of 12,000 home on company culture, he added, as ital business any longer,” he said. whose mission is to provide secure, well ... The data managers try to build team dynamics “Technology plays a key role in every global IT at scale for 350,000 IBM corroborates without employees gathering currently business.” employees. and likely gathering less once the pan- Therefore, a company’s ability to During his keynote, Previn said he that people are demic is over. adapt its systems and procedures will plans to discuss the structure of IBM’s “The general prevailing sentiment is, determine success and possibly surviv- IT department, its philosophy and really working if you’re in a job category that can be al. “That was always true,” Previn said. approach to delivering services to the and being quite performed well remotely, we still want “It’s just especially true now [during a business. This will include its focus on to maintain the ability to come together pandemic].” AI, cloud services and enhancing the productive in the office,” he said, “even if we don’t The roles and responsibilities of the user experience. do that every day.” CIO will therefore evolve, Previn said he Another topic Previn said he plans remotely.” At IBM, the first step to shift into would address in his keynote. to discuss is the technical challeng- remote work was to ensure there was “It’s a much more technical set of es of providing and securing IT infra- enough remote capacity and VPN. The requirements on the job. It needs to structure for the company’s worldwide second step focused on security, Previn be more than just a sort of financial or employees in the midst of a pandemic. said, as he had to think “You’ve now business person,” he added. “It’s got to “What does it take to shift from extended your borders into a much be a person who can really be a tech- almost everyone going into the office more porous situation.” nical strategic partner to the business.” to almost everyone working remote- The company had to decide quick- CIOs must recognize that IT plays a ly in a short amount of time,” Previn ly how much access each employee, role in providing workers the tools they said he would address. “What does it based on his/her security status and need, but also in shaping the culture mean to your operation when you’ve location, could have to IBM’s internal of an organization. “The state of IT is extended your attack surface, essen- systems. a direct reflection of what the compa- tially, to everybody’s homes or remote “That required some engineering ny thinks and feels about its people,” environments, where the home is now work on things like remote access, Previn said. “If we really believe that to a school, an office, a multi-use envi- VPN, zero trust, our identity and access be true, then how well we’re doing our ronment? What do we need to do to management,” he said. “We need to jobs is not trivial.”

Fletcher Previn, CIO of IBM, leads a global team of 12,000 that oversees IT for the company’s 350,000 worldwide employees. Previn is delivering the virtual keynote address for Georgia CIO’s ORBIE Awards. 6 ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5, 2020

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GLOBAL FINALISTS Multinational organizations with over $1 billion annual revenue

SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SCOTT DUFOUR DONIE LOCHAN, MIGUEL LOUZAN, BENJAMIN PIVAR, KIM TREVISAN, BATES TURPEN, Global CIO, Fleetcor CTO, Invesco CIO, Lifescan SVP & CIO, Carter’s CIO, Oldcastle APG CIO, Travelport

Scott DuFour joined Donie Lochan is Miguel Louzan, CIO of As Carter’s Oshkosh Kim Trevisan is CIO for Bates Turpen has FLEETCOR as global managing director, LifeScan since 2018, B’gosh senior vice Oldcastle APG, a North more than 20 years of CIO in Feb. 2019. Prior chief technology officer has over 20 years of president and CIO, Ben American manufacturer experience in IT through to joining the company, and global head of global IT leadership Pivar is responsible for of concrete building and application development, DuFour held several technology, overseeing experience. He has creating the vision and hardscape products. travel industry and technology leadership strategy and execution broad international roadmap for IT while She is responsible for all call center solutions, roles at McKesson since for Invesco Technology. experience leading also managing project aspects of the company’s security and operations. 2013, most recently CIO He was previously global teams and diverse delivery, applications, IT strategy across As CIO at Travelport, for McKesson Europe. the global head of industry knowledge, security, infrastructure, APGs 27 companies Turpen provides DuFour held IT and information technology especially in healthcare, desktop, business in North America and strategic guidance business leadership strategy, innovation and manufacturing, M&A and intelligence and support. Europe. Prior to her role on high transaction positions at Ingram Micro planning. Prior to joining services. Companies He has 25 years of with Oldcastle APG, applications, business from 2006 to 2013, and Invesco in June 2015, Louzan previously experience in retail, Trevisan served on the process redesign, global at Elemica Ltd., from Lochan served as head of worked for include consumer products, IT leadership team for information security and 2001 to 2006. His early corporate strategy and SWM International, UCB merchandising, supply some of the world’s fiscal stewardship. career included roles at mergers and acquisitions Pharma, Boston Scientific chain and IT. He has leading brands including Accenture, Sun Chemical for LPL Financial. Before (including in Brussels, won several awards, Travelport, The Coca- and Covalex.com Inc. that, he was a partner Belgium) and Honeywell is involved with the Cola Company and GE. SUCCESS STORY: with Bain and Company. Europe in Brussels. NRF CIO Council and Most recently she was the Travelport transacted Lochan earned a BSc the Amazon Web vice president of global over $79 billion in SUCCESS STORY: degree with first-class SUCCESS STORY: Services Retail Advisory technology at Travelport. bookings in 2019. Shortly “I would summarize after becoming CIO honors in mathematics, Louzan executed global Committee. He holds an She holds a master’s this with one word: at Travelport, Turpen statistics and computing. technology from Johnson MBA from the Darden degree in IT from RMIT trust. In my short time started transforming & Johnson to create a School at the University University in Melbourne, at FLEETCOR, I’ve re- the business to simplify SUCCESS STORY: stand-alone LifeScan of Virginia and a BS in Australia. Travisan is an instilled our business complexities and add “My biggest organization in 18 months Physics from UC Irvine. advocate for women in partners’ trust in IT, value to the industry accomplishment is my across 40-plus countries. STEM and sits on the ATP which has led to an with next-generation role in transforming He created a new IT SUCCESS STORY: Advisory Board and the improved culture platform development. Invesco Technology organization/structure, “Carter’s IT team’s TAG Board of Directors. embracing collaboration, “Despite the pandemic’s from ‘a supporter and/or simplified applications’ greatest recent additional investment unprecedented impact enabler of the business’ footprint from 700 accomplishment was SUCCESS STORY: in IT and growth in our on the industry in 2020, to ‘technology as a to 150 platforms, our support of the “During my first 18 business. To accomplish my team has increased competitive advantage.’ transformed from on- organization through the months of being a this, I first focused customer flexibility and We now work as a premise architecture pandemic. We quickly CIO, I learned that on IT effectiveness delivered ERP solutions cohesive, global team to 98% cloud-based rolled out collaboration building the right team and transparency across the organization that is both empowered platform, and created tools, training and is everything. While I’ve before pivoting to IT while accelerating and engaged to deliver an analytics and digital support for our business spent a lot of time this transformation strategies our next-generation value and innovation practice. In addition, partners. We also past year putting a strong that both dealt with product development. for Invesco. There are the team brought conducted a trial work- technical- and customer- our technical debt and Throughout the year, countless ways in which several new capabilities from-home day. When focused foundation supported our business the team consistently our OneTech team around analytics, digital we moved to work-from- in place, being able growth strategies. I achieved high has provided value automation, process home in mid-March, it to create a culture continue to focus on performance, which through transformational simplification, AI, happened seamlessly where every member the development of my is significant given initiatives over the years. machine learning and and was a key factor of IT knows that their leadership team, talent the industry’s data But it was only through Factory 4.0 across the driving our company superpowers are valued acquisition and effective interdependence and its the journey of this enterprise. performance over the is one of my greatest organizational models.” criticality for recovery team that we achieved past six months.” accomplishments.” and growth in the travel success.” sector.” Congratulations to all the Georgia CIO of the Year® Award Winners and Nominees!

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LARGE ENTERPRISE FINALISTS Organizations with over $1.5 billion annual revenue

SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL

GREGORY ALLARDING, ZACK BISHOP, ROHIT LAL, RAGHU SAGI, MICHAEL SULLIVAN, ASHOK VANTIPALLI, SVP & CIO, Mansfield EVP Tech, Operations, VP & CIO, SAIA Inc. CIO, inspire brands VP & CIO, Southern CIO, Tirehub Energy Security, Synovus company gas Bank Greg Allarding is CIO Rohit Lal, CIO of Saia Raghu Sagi is CIO of Michael Sullivan is vice Ashok Vantipalli became of Mansfield Energy. Zack Bishop joined LTL, has worked and Inspire Brands, whose president and CIO at CIO at TireHub in He was CIO and senior Synovus in November consulted with consumer portfolio includes more Southern Company Gas. 2018. Prior to joining vice president of 2018 as executive vice products and supply than 11,100 Arby’s, Buffalo He leads all aspects of Tirehub, he was global operations for Comverge, president of technology, chain firms in over nine Wild Wings, SONIC the strategic delivery vice president of a demand response operations and security. countries. He aligns Drive-In, Rusty Taco and of technologies that application delivery at provider to electric Previously he was strategic business Jimmy John’s locations support Southern’s gas Sage Software. Vantipalli utilities. A large portion executive vice president goals with technology worldwide. Prior to utilities and related spent more than 15 of Allarding’s career and chief information initiatives across 11,000 Inspire, Sagi served businesses. Sullivan has years in technology and was with Accenture, officer of Renasant Bank, employees at 170 as chief engineering 33 years of experience. management consulting, where he spent 16 years responsible for all digital locations and 18,000 officer for Sephora Prior to joining Southern serving financial services, managing complex operations. Before joining vehicles delivering 40 Americas. Sagi also held Company, Sullivan served media and healthcare system implementations Renasant in 2013, he million pounds of freight technology leadership as American Electric clients at McKinsey and and developing high- held senior leadership a day. Prior to Saia, Lal positions at Walmart and Power’s (AEP) director of Alvarez and Marsal (A&M). performance technology positions with Regions was with The Coca-Cola Best Buy. He received a IT demand management. He also served as head teams focused on Bank. His banking Company, where he bachelor of technology Before AEP, he held of technology operations process improvement career began in 1994 at managed the hosting of degree in electronics a number of senior (U.S., Europe and Asia) and operations. Allarding Union Planters Bank in a global SAP instance and communications enterprise technology for the Lehman Brothers. has a bachelor’s Memphis, Tenn. for 40,000 employees in engineering from leadership roles at Vantipalli received a degree in management Europe, Africa and Asia. Jawaharlal Nehru companies including bachelor’s degree in information systems from Later, he was responsible Technological University Allstate Insurance, applied mathematics the University of South SUCCESS STORY: for the infrastructure due and a master’s in Nationwide Insurance and statistics, with Florida. “Shifting the culture diligence for a $17 billion electrical engineering and Century Insurance a concentration in from being only focused merger/divestiture within from Southern Illinois Group. Earlier in his computer science, from on maintaining the SUCCESS STORY: The Coca-Cola System. University Edwardsville. career, he was director of State University of New current bank to building He holds a bachelors of “The downstream oil e-business and solution York at Stony Brook. He tomorrow’s modernized technology degree in industry has historically SUCCESS STORY: delivery at interactive earned a master’s degree bank has been the chemical engineering lagged from a Sagi has been agency Proxicom Inc. in computer science from most considerable from the Indian Institute technology standpoint. instrumental in the New Jersey Institute of and most beneficial of Technology. I’m transforming how digital transformation of SUCCESS STORY: Technology. He is board accomplishment. I member of TechBridge. we work within the get excited about Inspire Brands, which has “The greatest success Mansfield organization competitors and SUCCESS STORY: accelerated consumer was an unplanned effort and influencing the disruptors moving into “We achieved a lot during adoption of digital to divest four subsidiaries SUCCESS STORY: this turbulent year: industry at the same time. the financial space; it channels and changed of Southern Company “My team developed moving office workers I have laid out a digital sparks a flame for us to the way the company Gas. I revised our entire customer digital home at a company with strategy anchored in five build an environment serves its guests. Over strategic approach and platforms that created no work-from-home key tenets: connected to compete with all the past year, Sagi’s generated a tactical plan sustainable growth, as experience; managing supply chain; connected industries, not just peers team has integrated both that allowed us to quickly well as enabled our ability a team to be productive customer; connected within the banking sector. SONIC and Jimmy John’s pivot and financially close to acquire new customers through multiple workforce; connected Synovus Banks’ ability to into Inspire’s enterprise all four deals in a matter and grow digital sales crises; and stabilizing machines; and advanced recruit is at an all-time applications. of two months, as well share from 30% to 85% in infrastructure operations. analytics.” high. Jobs are taking days as the subsequent two- two years.” to fill instead of months. Still, my greatest year TSA support to our Technologists want to achievement is breaking divestiture partners.” work for a winning team down departmental and we all want to be part silos and tightly aligning of something great.” the business and IT priorities.” Congratulations to Geoff Brown for being named as a finalist for CIO of the Year.

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2020 CIO OF THE YEAR

ENTERPRISE FINALISTS Organizations with over $500 million annual revenue

SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL KEITH AKIN, BOB BERRY, MARCIA CALLEJA- ROSS CREASY, ERIC MUNTZ, PRAMESH NAIK, VP Technology CIO, Reef Technology MATSKO, CIO, Ameris Bank CIO, Mailchimp CIO, Troutman Services, RPC Inc. VP & CIO, Avanos Pepper Keith Akin is vice Bob Berry is a senior IT Medical Ross Creasy has served Eric Muntz is CIO of Pramesh Naik is CIO president of technology executive and consultant as executive vice Mailchimp. He has helped at Troutman Pepper. services for RPC Inc. He with more than 30 years of As VP and CIO at Avanos president and chief create web, desktop His background in has more than 30 years of experience domestically Medical, Marcia Calleja- innovation officer of and mobile applications information technology experience in technology and internationally Matsko is responsible Ameris Bank since for early-stage startups, spans 25 years. He companies, having started in various industries for all IT functions July 2019. Prior to the small businesses and the began his career at as a software engineer for including construction, worldwide, including the company’s acquisition federal government. He Bank of America in an ERP vendor and moved financial services, strategic planning and of Fidelity, he was CIO has a degree in applied London, moving to to project management insurance, REIT, retail, execution of Avanos’ of Fidelity Bank since mathematics from Serco, a Department and technical leadership property management global information July 2018. Prior to joining Auburn University. of Defense contractor, roles early in his career. and ecommerce. Berry technology services. Fidelity, Creasy served and eventually into the For the past 15 years, has been responsible for Prior to her role as CIO, in various technology legal industry in 1998. she held multiple senior SUCCESS STORY: he has led and grown IT multiple reorganizations positions with E*TRADE, Eric Muntz joined During his time working leadership positions teams building PMOs, of IT operations during Capital One and the Mailchimp in 2010. He in the London offices including at Avanos application development mergers, acquisitions, Federal Reserve. has led Mailchimp’s of two U.S.-based law Medical (previously teams and customer and right-sizing, including engineering team and its firms, Naik oversaw Halyard Health). Calleja- support teams. He joined global consolidations. He evolution from building new office openings in Matsko served as the SUCCESS STORY: RPC’s IT department in holds a masters degree “This year, one focus the Mailchimp platform Europe and mergers. He global director for IT 2018. In 2019, he was in public administration has been to advance during their early days transitioned to Atlanta Data Center Demand and promoted to VP. He from the University our customers’ digital with a team of three to in 2004. Prior to coming Business Management graduated from the of Connecticut and a banking experience. developing programs back to Troutman in for SITA. She serves as a University of Georgia and bachelor’s degree in We are continuing that have transformed 2017, he served as CIO at mentor through Women has a BBA in Management political science from the to deploy enhanced Mailchimp into an all-in- Constangy, Brooks, Smith in Technology (WIT) and Science. University of Vermont. and upgraded digital one marketing platform & Prophete LLP. He is a has more than 30 years features and solutions. for small businesses graduate of the University of global IT experience. SUCCESS STORY: Simultaneously, we are with a team of 400. of the West of England. SUCCESS STORY: Calleja-Matsko earned “As a first-time leader “Over the past four years, focusing on consolidating His work has enhanced her degree from the of an IT organization, I what started as a group from four to two data an infrastructure that University of Florida. SUCCESS STORY: wanted to focus on the of parking companies has centers with modern supported a few hundred On July 1, Troutman people and not just the become a technology infrastructure solutions thousand Mailchimp Sanders merged with technology. My entire company, with the vision SUCCESS STORY: to help our overall users in 2010 to over 12 Pepper Hamilton to management team read of utilizing urban spaces “My greatest resiliency and capacity. I million customers today. form Troutman Pepper, ‘The Ideal Team Player’ (parking lots/garages) accomplishment at am proud of the progress with combined revenue by Patrick Lencioni. All into neighborhood hubs. Avanos has been leading my team has made over of almost $1 billion. new hires have to pass IT has contributed to and implementing an IT the past 10 months and Troutman Sanders our Ideal Team Player test. that vision by being transformation program. their continued efforts went from 650 to Since then, we have hired agile and able to quickly The integrations of to deliver enhanced 1,100 lawyers, 1,500 to or promoted 26 people. consolidate a multitude several acquisitions, customer experiences.” 2,700 total employees, All but three turned out of legacy business as well the successful and 12 to 23 offices. to be ‘ideal.’ This has systems to one, as well transition of employee’s “Completing a merger allowed us to focus on as implement custom technical capabilities of this size while moving technical operations and and off-the-shelf systems. to work from home, has to a fully remote work project initiatives for our While this is a team been critical.” environment, while business.” effort, the CIO role acts balancing furloughs, as the ‘glue’ in pulling expense reductions and these accomplishments economic uncertainty, together and keeping the is my greatest team focused.” accomplishment to date.”

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CORPORATE FINALISTS Organizations up to $500 million in annual revenue

SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL ERIC BRADLEY BLAKE JAMES HAMRICK JAY NAYAK ROBERT GINA Eric Bradley is CIO for BRANNON As vice president of IT Jay Nayak is Global SHEESLEY STRICKLAND TaxSlayer LLC, a tax filing for Gables Residential, CIO for Kids2 Inc. The software development As chief technology company has 12 offices on James Hamrick ensures Robert Sheesley, CIO, Gina Strickland is CPIO company based in officer, Blake Brannon four continents and serves the operational efficiency The Wrench Group, has at Miller Zell. Strickland Augusta, Ga. He joined oversees all aspects customers in more than and support of the 30 years of business and has background in both TaxSlayer as director of IT of OneTrust’s product 90 countries. She is also technology platform, technology strategy and technical and business in 2016 and was promoted and is responsible for leading the project and develops IT strategy transformation experience process projects. She led to CIO in 2019. Bradley defining the privacy, program management and works with leaders in industries including a multi-year technology leads the planning of security and trust market, office. Since joining within the company. He healthcare, government, refresh project. In 2019, TaxSlayer’s data center and OneTrust’s product Kids2 in 2018, Nayak has brings more than 20 years manufacturing and Strickland obtained modernization initiatives capabilities. Brannon increased technology of experience in the IT consumer home services. her Six Sigma green and works with the IT, evaluates industry trends delivery speeds by a field and the multifamily A U.S. Marine and belt certification and information security and and analyst research while factor of two to three, industry. Hamrick Operation Desert Storm is currently pursuing development teams. driving product planning, reduced operating costs previously worked Veteran, Sheesley is a her black belt. Having design, customer advisory while increasing speed at RealPage as vice member of the board of completed a CISA testing and product president - SmartSource and efficiency, built an IT SUCCESS STORY: launch activities. Prior to the Veterans Leadership security auditing course, “Looking over my tenure IT, leading RealPage’s IT. team in less than seven OneTrust, Brannon was Program (Pennsylvania) Strickland leads an at TaxSlayer, it is not He was VP of IT at Bell months, and completed one of the first employees and Pennsylvania REGION annual plan of security the technical delivery I Partners Inc., director of IT the selection and at AirWatch, where he 13 Counter-Terrorism Task training that has affected am most proud of. It is at Gables Residential and implementation of an ERP served as global director Force. He holds an MBA the company’s security watching the work of the senior consultant at Ernst system and processes to of sales engineering and and bachelor’s degree stance. IT team as they continue & Young (Capgemini). support the launch of the vice president of product from Clarion University of to grow and learn from He received a bachelor’s new 72,000-square-foot marketing. Pennsylvania. SUCCESS STORY: one another every day degree from Georgia Tech manufacturing facility in “With a replacement of to be better engineers, in textile engineering. China. SUCCESS STORY: computers with laptops better teammates and SUCCESS STORY: “Deploying a cloud- company-wide, our VPN even better people. Brannon’s innovations SUCCESS STORY: SUCCESS STORY: based telephony system, to increase capacity, TaxSlayer is a third- are used by 6,000 “My greatest contribution Gables created a team as a compliment to our the addition of security generation, family- companies, including over at Kids2 has been focused on innovative existing core systems monitoring software and operated business and we half of the Fortune 500, transforming IT into technology for its and infrastructure in the implementing Teams in hold those same family across 100 countries. a global technology apartment communities. cloud in response to the January 2020, we were values near to us in our This, coupled with being organization. I started The team’s vision was pandemic, was mission prepared for the Covid-19 daily work lives.” named America’s No. 1 with the methodology to provide internet critical. As essential outbreak and the move Fastest Growing Company of people first, then service and smart-home critical infrastructure to a remote workforce. by Inc. magazine, speaks process and technology. I technology to residents workforce, our ability I have executed an to Brannon’s ability to recruited a talented team. in apartment homes, to quickly move to IT strategic plan that build technology that We focused on upgrading the parking garage and working remotely in drives innovation. IT is meets the organization’s our global infrastructure via other amenities. The a secure manner was focused on modernizing complex privacy, security and investing in the network infrastructure paramount to ensuring our software so each and governance needs. technology to support is leveraged for smart uninterrupted customer employee has the Brannon and his team ecommerce. The largest locks, thermostats, leak service. Implementing best tools. 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2020 CIO OF THE YEAR AWARDS

“A good leader has to be able to motivate people, make tough decisions when needed and embrace change while guiding others into accepting change as well.”

Greg Morrison, CIO of Cox Enteprises Inc., until his retirement in December 2019, is receiving the 2020 Georgia CIO of the Year ORBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Celebrating achievement Greg Morrison leads and inspires BY RANDY SOUTHERLAND | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

or Greg Morrison, the job of a student to the top of his class. His golf and resources, but more importantly chief information officer was not skills also improved, which led to sever- his wisdom.” F just about technology but about al athletic scholarship offers. Morrison Throughout his career, Morrison leadership. “He solicits chose South Carolina State University has impressed others with his ability “Leaders have to develop people,” became a top cadet in the university’s to lead by gathering information and said Morrison. “A good leader has to be feedback from ROTC program, at that time the largest inspiring others. able to motivate people, make tough the team and in the country. “First and foremost, Greg is a con- decisions when needed and embrace Morrison rose to the rank of cap- summate leader,” said John Perry, CEO change while guiding others into his peers but at tain and the U.S. Army sent him to of Bluefin, who met Morrison when accepting change as well.” Northwestern University for a gradu- they were Army officers at the same During a career spanning the mil- the end of the ate degree in engineering. post. “He solicits feedback from the itary and several industries until his day, he makes In the military, he recalled, “you’re team and his peers but at the end of the retirement last year from Cox Enter- given a lot of authority as a 20-some- day, he makes the decision that needs prises Inc., Morrison embraced that the decision thing-year-old. You’re responsible for to be made.” leadership, which is why he is this millions of dollars of equipment. You’re Mentoring has long been a passion year’s recipient of the 2020 Georgia CIO that needs to called on to make life and death deci- for Morrison. Many of his mentees of the Year ORBIE Award for Lifetime be made.” sions about people. You learn how to have also become technology leaders, Achievement. present your ideas to superiors, how to including John Bell, vice president for Morrison grew up in the segregated JOHN PERRY, be decisive, and how to problem-solve IT Infrastructure at Cox. South. His own school didn’t desegre- CEO of Bluefin quickly on your feet and during “Greg believed in developing future gate until he was in the fourth grade, adversity.” IT leaders and he supported us through he recalled. He said he also learned to be thick- words and actions,” Bell said. “He “During that time, society was struc- skinned, which he said has served him invested in me personally and chal- tured to make black folks feel inferi- well as he became one of the first Black lenged me to push beyond what I or, and I wasn’t immune to that,” he people to hold several corporate posi- thought was possible.” said, adding that he learned from his tions. He spent 14 years at Prudential, He often advised his mentees to father how to overcome the negative eventually rising to the position of divi- ask for what they needed and wanted, environment. sional CIO. After running a dot-com according to Elaine Norman, who met “My father worked as a doorman at startup in the early 2000s, Morrison Morrison while she was CIO for United a private country club, and he was the returned to Prudential to run a due dil- Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. most gracious and humble and opti- igence team for an acquisition the com- Morrison had joined a technology mistic man that you could know,” Mor- pany was making in Japan. think tank she organized to help the rison said. “His optimism was infec- He later was recruited by Cox Enter- nonprofit make the most of its limit- tious, and the power of that optimism prises to be its first CIO, where he ed tech budget. She said his ability to was my first lesson in life.” remained for 18 years until his retire- weave lessons and advice into ordinary His father was well-liked by the ment in December 2019. encounters made a profound impact. club’s members and management, and Morrison joined Cox when it was Viola Maxwell-Thompson, president that goodwill rubbed off on the young- investing heavily in technology and and CEO of the Information Technology er Morrison. When he showed an inter- needed a more professional approach Senior Management Forum, met Morri- est in golf, club management equipped to guiding and managing that spend- son soon after he co-founded the orga- him with clubs, balls and shoes, “every- ing and employment, he said. nization, which is dedicated to increas- thing that I needed to play,” he recalled. James Dallas, then CIO of Georgia ing Black representation in technology. “Club members, who mostly were Pacific, remembered meeting Morrison Through Morrison, she learned retired executives, would constant- soon after Morrison joined Cox. about “interacting with senior-lev- ly give me advice, mentoring me. As a “There was a group of us – the CIOs el [corporate] leaders, understanding result, I had a lot of opportunities that at all the major companies in Atlan- how to talk to the board, doing presen- I would not have had otherwise.” ta – that started reaching out to each tations at the board level,” said Thomp- A turning point for Morrison was other,” said Dallas. “We all were facing son, who was then one of the first Black when a 10th grade teacher told him the same problems, so we said, ‘Let’s female partners in Ernst and Young’s about “conditional thinking,” which he sit down and share [our experiences] management consulting practice. explained was how society conditions with each other.’ We started meeting “He also talked to me about making a person to “believe a set of facts that and Greg just impressed me right off sure that I stay abreast of what is hap- limit your own potential,” he said. “You the bat.” pening in the industry. It was not could break that conditioning by start- Dallas described Morrison as the that I needed to know all the tech- ing to believe in your ability to achieve “first true CIO statesman,” an executive nical jargon, but how the technolo- [and] to be successful.” committed to “taking care of compa- gy was truly transforming businesses Morrison said that by changing his ny, taking care of community and tak- and making sure that I understood the thinking, he changed his life trajecto- ing care of family. Taking care of [fam- value that technology was bringing to ry, improving from being a middling ily] means not only providing his time corporations.” 16 ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5, 2020

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PUBLIC SECTOR FINALISTS Government and education organizations

SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL BRIAN BENN, GARY BRANTLEY, JEFF MAY, GAURAV SINGAL, PHIL VENTIMIGLIA, SVP & CIO, Atlanta CIO, CIO, GA Dept VP Technology, Chief Innovation Housing Authority City of Atlanta of Labor Georgia Lottery Corp. Officer, Georgia State

Brian Benn is CIO and Gary Brantley brings Jeff May has served as As VP of Technology As Georgia State senior vice president more than 20 years the CIO for the Georgia for Georgia Lottery University’s first chief of the Atlanta Housing of experience in the Department of Labor Corp., Gaurav Singal innovation officer, Phil Authority. Benn studied technology sector and (GDOL) since 2012. has more than 20 years Ventimiglia has nearly two computer science and 17 years of leadership He has over 25 years of technology and decades of experience. mathematics at the as the CIO of the of IT leadership and management experience. He serves on the advisory University of Alabama Department of Atlanta management experience. He has hired over 500 board for the Educause in Huntsville and has Information Management Under May’s leadership, people, led the creation Learning Initiative (ELI) an MBA from Belhaven (AIM). Brantley GDOL became one of of over 250 technology and as a mentor in University. He volunteers provides IT services the first state agencies assets and retired over Georgia Tech’s Flashpoint with TechBridge, Atlanta to 25 departments, to replace a legacy 200 legacy assets. program. Before joining Technology Professionals, including Public Safety, mainframe system, Previously, as VP of Georgia State, Ventimiglia the Government Justice, Operations, thus reducing agency Technology at Goldman was vice president for Technology Special Administration and expenses by $25 million Sachs and XPO Logistics, innovation and new Districts Program, Hartsfield-Jackson over 10 years. May is IT he was responsible for product development the Greater Atlanta International Airport. He Director and Chairman of technology strategy, at NCR Corporation. He CIO Governing Body created an Atlanta CIO the National Association engineering and security also was vice president for Evanta and the advisory board. Before of State Workforce of applications, data and and general manager Technology Association joining AIM, he was CIO of Agencies (NASWA) infrastructure. for the NCR Hyderabad of Georgia’s Southeastern one of the largest school Information Technology Development Center Software Association. districts in the United Support Center (ITSC) SUCCESS STORY: in India. Prior to NCR, States, in Ohio. Brantley Steering Committee. “In mid-March 2020, Ventimiglia worked at SUCCESS STORY: began his career with IBM He helped lead the with Covid-19 challenges Dell for over 10 years. He “The accomplishment before becoming regional GDOL’s efforts during that have redefined holds a master’s of public that I am most proud operations director for the pandemic to process how we do business, and private management of is the creation of MCIWorldCom. over 1 million Georgians everyone’s eyes were from the Yale School our ACCESS initiative receiving unemployment on IT. It was the greatest of Management and benefits. May’s served a bachelor of science (Achieving Connectivity SUCCESS STORY: challenge of my career to Create Equity and six years in the Georgia degree in electrical “My greatest as we quickly scaled Self Sufficiency) and General Assembly. engineering from the accomplishment has and digitized processes our Academy of Digital University of Connecticut. been transforming the to continue operating Leadership. The ACCESS Department of Atlanta SUCCESS STORY: virtually. I’m honored to initiative employs a Information Management “My greatest professional be the architect of the SUCCESS STORY: three-pronged approach on the heels of one of accomplishment this post-Covid workplace “This spring and summer, to digital inclusion, the biggest ransomware year has been managing at Georgia Lottery and the work of the last partnering with internal attacks in U.S. history, the effort to ensure support $1.23 billion in several years has paid leadership and private in March 2018. We have that over 1 million returns for the education off as we pivoted the and public sector attracted, retained and Georgia families have for Georgia students.” university to enable organizations to ensure empowered the best received unemployment remote learning. We had hardware, connectivity team to help overhaul compensation during this already made significant and digital literacy for all this department. We pandemic. We increased progress toward a vision residents. The Academy have strengthened the system capacity to of a technology-enabled of Digital Leadership, a city’s infrastructure, accommodate an multimodal university component of the third improved its security and increase of over 40 times to effectively support a prong.” committed resources to the average monthly combination of online, ensuring we are at the claims volume, without hybrid and face-to-face forefront of technological outage or downtime.” classes.” advances.” Build your digital foundation on VMware.

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HEALTHCARE FINALISTS Hospitals and healthcare organizations

SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL GEOFFREY BROWN, JEFF BUDA, ANDREW GOODWIN, JASON JAMES, MICHAEL MUNCY, JOHN SLAUGHTER, VP & CIO, Piedmont VP & CIO, Floyd CIO, Harbin Clinic CIO, Net Health CIO, Aveanna CIO, Alliant Health Healthcare Medical Center Healthcare

Geoff Brown is vice Jeff Buda joined Floyd Andrew Goodwin is the Jason James, Net Health’s After spending over a As CIO for Alliant Health president and CIO at as CIO in 2012. He was Certified Healthcare CIO, oversees the decade in areas such Solutions, Slaughter Piedmont Healthcare. named vice president in CIO for Harbin Clinic technological delivery as healthcare, retail is responsible for all IT He has over 35 years of 2016. His early career as in Rome, Ga. Prior to of the company’s SaaS ecommerce, university systems, solutions, and experience. He joined a finance professional joining Harbin Clinic in products. James has 20- organizations and integrations. He has Piedmont Healthcare in provides him unique 2015, Goodwin served plus years of experience government entities, more than 15 years of 2014. Prior to Piedmont, insights to create in senior IT leadership and is a frequently Muncy got involved in healthcare IT experience. Brown served 10 years competitive advantage positions, most recently published IT thought three healthcare startups, Prior to joining Alliant, as SVP & CIO at Inova through information as CIO at the Georgia leader,podcast guest and gaining a patent in Slaughter worked in Health System (IHS) technology. Buda led the Hospital Association. industry speaker. Prior radiology software and technology roles for in the Washington, strategy and execution He earned a bachelor’s to joining Net Health, he kick-starting a new model Accenture, Hewitt D.C. area. He has held of Floyd’s telemedicine degree in business directed IT for several of health insurance/health Associates and Saba several government offerings, including administration and fast-growth technology care provider partnership. Software. He received appointments in Virginia, enhanced patient/ computer science from companies including Finally, he made his way his bachelor of science as well as positions family communications the University of Maine at EarthLink, PRGX and to Atlanta, working in degree in chemical including VP & CIO with during the Covid-19 Farmington and a master’s Servigistics. He holds a geriatric home health care engineering from Tulane Grady Health System, pandemic. Buda earned degree in geographic bachelor’s degree from and eventually landing at University. and associate hospital his MBA from Kennesaw information systems Oregon State University Aveanna, where he has administrator and CIO State University Coles from the University of and a master’s degree served as CIO for the last at Tenet Health System’s College of Business and Maine at Orono. He holds in applied information four years. Muncy is also SUCCESS STORY: Atlanta Medical Center a bachelor of arts degree an associate degree in management from the involved in the Atlanta “My greatest (formerly Georgia Baptist) in business economics forest management from University of Oregon. community through accomplishment involves and South Fulton Medical from the University of the University of Maine, He was a finalist for the nonprofits. an administrative Center. Brown earned California, Santa Barbara. and is a member of the Constellation Research simplification project that resulted in providers a bachelor of science He is a board member College of Healthcare SuperNova Award SUCCESS STORY: degree in business and president-elect of Information Management (2020). He is involved going to a centralized Michael Muncy has portal for all Medicaid administration. the Georgia chapter of Executives (CHIME), in TechBridge and worked across all the Health Information Healthcare Information Technology Association of prior authorization business units to integrate requests in Georgia. The SUCCESS STORY: Management Systems and Management Systems Georgia. the company’s technology Society. Society (HIMSS) and the project went live within “My greatest success infrastructure. He and one year. The initial has been the planning American College of his team developed an Healthcare Executives SUCCESS STORY: promise of administrative and integration of new SUCCESS STORY: “My role as CIO integrated SaaS structure simplification has also organizations that have (ACHE). in areas including Under Buda’s leadership, evolved beyond allowed us to digitize joined and partnered with recruiting, HR, payroll, Floyd’s information that of a technology paper forms and manual Piedmont. In my 30-plus accounting, finance, AP, technology has undergone SUCCESS STORY: business leader to that processes.” years in healthcare IT, I clinical, sales, billing and a multi-year transformation “I have always strived to of a culture leader, have not seen anything field operations. The IT focused on developing build a top-tier IT team. focused on enabling quite like the disruption team transformed the data centers, network This meant I had to first employee connections caused by the Covid-19 underlying architecture and phone systems, and reorganize the IT and IS and engagement. Our pandemic. Piedmont of the company to information security. Buda departments into one new company’s mission is to went from 300 to 15,000 withstand growth and fostered collaboration, ITS team with a singular reunite caregivers with telehealth visits, and has quick assimilation of new accountability and mission and vision. All their callings. In a way, I treated thousands of acquisition targets that agility, and enabled the of the great technology have directly supported patients requiring hospital will help Aveanna grow. organization to develop achievements at Harbin that mission by ensuring care by leveraging new capabilities and have been due to this our employees are technology.” continue its commitment team.” reunited during this crisis, to clinical quality perhaps my greatest improvement. accomplishment as CIO.” T:8.5"

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