SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BOSTONCIO 2021 OF CIO THE YEAR ORBIE AWARDS BOSTONCIO KEYNOTE LEADERSHIP Kathy Kountze, Brian Stevens, CEO of AWARD 2021 Chair, BostonCIO Somerville-based A.I. Elizabeth Hackenson, EVP & CIO – DentaQuest startup Neural Magic CIO, Schneider Electric 3 4 5 The annual BostonCIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards program honors chief information officers who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership. Winners in the Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Corporate, Healthcare & Public Sector categories will be announced June 18 at the virtual BostonCIO ORBIE Awards. CONGRATULATIONS 2021 BOSTONCIO AWARDS NOMINEES HISHAM AHARON JACK CLARE PETER FORTE DANIEL HIGGINS MOJGAN LEFEBVRE SUGATA MUKHOPADHYAY TIM SCANNELL Ocean State Job Lot UNFI Analog Devices United Rentals Travelers Tripadvisor IDC TRACY SCHROEDER NANCY ANDERSON BRIDGET COLLINS SORIN HILGEN MICHAEL MUNDRANE GE THOMAS FRANK EG America NAOMI LENANE Boston University Cerence Inc. Interactive Brokers Dana-Farber Cancer Institute University of Connecticut JOHN SHEA Eaton Vance SHELIA ANDERSON GEOFFRY HOOK LEE ANN MURRAY Liberty Mutual Insurance DAVE COMELLA BRIAN FRANZ Nuvance Health JOHN LETCHFORD Blue Cross & Blue Shield of State Street University of Massachusetts Manulife RICHARD SHIREY KIMBERLY ANSTETT Rhode Island ARTHUR HUBBS Hartford Hospital Iron Mountain Charles River Laboratories DAVID LEUCI JORGE NARIO SHARON GABRIEL Energy Federation Fidelity Investments SCOTT SIMON DAVID COOPER Clean Harbors Bose Corporation PETER BAKER WEX MICHAEL ISRAEL EMCOR Group The Kraft Group DAVID LEVESQUE ROSHAN NAVAGAMUWA RYAN SNYDER JONATHAN GATES New Hampshire Department of CVS Health Thermo Fisher Scientific Providence Community Health TED CRAWFORD Health and Human Services JOHN BARDEN Centers Yale University ERT MICHAEL JASPER PUNEET NEVATIA DEEPA SONI Draeger JEANNE LIEB Cambridge Trust Company The Hartford STEPHANIE BELL DOUGLAS CROWE DOUGLAS GENTILE FM Global LORRAINE SPADARO ZOLL Medical Corporation American Tower Corporation The University of Vermont SATYA JAYADEV JOHN NORMAN TD Garden/Boston Bruins Medical Center Skyworks Solutions, Inc. MICHAEL LILLIE Iora Health SARAH BERWICK Endurance International Group LISA STUMP State Street PETER CULLIVAN Yale New Haven Health RogersGray DOUGLAS JENKINS AMY O’CONNOR JOHN GIGERICH EBSCO Information Services ERIC LINDGREN Precisely MARK BEYERLY Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. ALEX SUKENNIK Bright Horizons Avid The TJX Companies, Inc. JEANNETTE CURRIE DYLAN O’CONNOR Beth Israel Deaconess Medical JASON JOHNSON PUMA Group MICHAEL GRAY Dana-Farber Cancer Institute GEORGE LLADO MANI SUNDARAM JAMES BILOTTA Center Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Akamai Technologies Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Thrive CAMERON KELLY JAY PASTERIS GREG SWOPE MARJORIE BOLES JONATHAN DACK LORI GROTH Connection TARA LONG New England Journal of Ethos Veterinary Health Sappi Limited Bottomline Technologies Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. MassMutual Medicine JIM KENDER JEANA THOMAS MICHAEL BOURQUE Amphenol TCS MIRIAM MANNING Pratt & Whitney WILLIAM DAMERON ELIZABETH HAIGHT JASON PELKEY Boston College The Brattle Group Commonwealth Financial Gilbane Building Company MathWorks Network MICHAEL TIROZZI SCOTT KESSLER Vertex Pharmaceuticals PAUL BRASSIL BJ’s Wholesale Club NICK PERUGINI Pawtucket Credit Union MITCHEL DAVIS MARIO HARIK DAVID MARSH GE JOSEPH TSE Dartmouth College XPO Logistics, Inc. DR. PHILIP KNUTEL People’s United Bank, N.A. Salsify FRED BRITTAIN Babson College State of Maine RONALD DEPOALO WILLIAM MAYO IAN PITT JAAP VAN RIEL ANJANA HARVE Broad Institute of MIT and LogMeIn, Inc. Talbots Fidelity Investments Fresenius Medical Care MICHAEL KRANS JUAN CALVERA Hartford Steam Boiler Harvard CEDRIC PRIEBE JOEL VENGCO Santander Bank, N.A. Baystate Health MICHAEL DILIBERTO ARTHUR HARVEY SHAUN MCGINTY Lifespan Gartner Boston Medical Center BIJAY KUMAR Fidelity Investments SHAMUS WEILAND LEN CAMARA State of Rhode Island FirstLight Fiber, Inc. RAMESH RAZDAN Manulife PETER DILORENZO LEANNE HARVEY JENNIFER MCLARNON Bain & Company Shepherd Kaplan Krochuk, LLC Harvard Medical Faculty PRAVEEN KUMAR BRAD WHITEHALL ANDREW CAMPBELL Boston College High School UniFirst Corporation Terex Corporation Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Arrowstreet Capital, L.P. MARK ROSA SCOTT WISHART TOM DIONISIO SANTHOSH KUMAR MICHAEL MICHAUD Mohegan Gaming & JAY CARLSON Southern New Hampshire University MIKE HAYECK F.W. Webb Company Entertainment Delaware Life Insurance Co. Spectrum Fidelity Investments Dunkin’ Brands JODI EDDY BRYAN MJAANES MITCHELL ROSE GREG WOLF KEVIN CARLSON Boston Scientific JAMIE HEAD ADAM KUTA IDC University of Massachusetts Public Consulting Group Vermont Mutual Insurance Ocean Spray Cranberries Bob’s Discount Furniture Group Medical School NOELLE EDER MICHAEL RUTTLEDGE RICK CHARLINO Cigna MARK HERNON JEFF LAMOREAUX PETER MOREAU Citizens Bank CURTIS WOOD SS&C Technologies Biogen Global Partners LP Amica Commonwealth of Massachusetts BILLIE CHOCK JIM FEEN RIC SALVATICI Blue Buffalo Co. Southcoast Health JOHN HEVERAN MARK LANTZY DEANE MORRISON Keolis North America MARYJO ZABOROWSKI Liberty Mutual Insurance The MENTOR Network Concord Hospital Parexel CHUCK CIALI CONNIE FLYNN KARL HICK JULIANNE LEBLANC PAUL MOSS MICHAEL SAMOSKA RENEE ZAUGG Teradyne, Inc. MKS Instruments Takeda Legrand LNCA The Boston Beer Company Aqueduct Tachnologies Otis Elevator Co. 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Thanks to these innovative There is no textbook for how organizations — creates enormous technology leaders, most to be a great CIO. The best way to value for everyone. organizations have managed to sharpen your leadership acumen is Together, we are transforming continue operating through this to join a peer leadership network our organizations with technology pandemic disruption. with other leaders working and enriching our region Technology has enabled our on solving similar challenges. and our world. On behalf of new virtual lives; provided access The industries and size may be BostonCIO, congratulations to the to entertainment, food, and different, but winning approaches nominees and finalists on their products delivered to our homes; to effective leadership and problem accomplishments and thank you and connected us with colleagues, member-led, noncommercial solving are transferrable. Every to the sponsors, underwriters and friends and loved ones. Technology programs, CIOs build meaningful leader’s perspective is valuable and staff who make the ORBIE Awards has helped us adapt, adjust professional relationships contributes to the conversation — possible. and survive our new abnormal. with colleagues facing similar and everyone wins when leaders Without the leadership, planning challenges, solving problems and engage, share ideas, experiences Sincerely, and foresight of CIOs, conducting avoiding pitfalls. and best practices. business would be impossible Throughout this crisis, For over 20 years, InspireCIO has under these circumstances. BostonCIO members have been inspiring CIO success through BostonCIO brings together collaborated locally and nationally the annual CIO of the Year ORBIE leading CIOs of New England’s with CIOs from across industries. In Awards — but this is just the tip of largest organizations to help any gathering of CIOs, the answer the iceberg. By joining BostonCIO, CIOs maximize their leadership is in the room. The challenge one technology executives take their Kathy Kountze effectiveness, create value, reduce CIO is facing has likely been solved leadership to the next level through 2021 Chair, BostonCIO risk and share success. Through by another CIO. What was their year-round, member-led programs EVP & CIO – DentaQuest JUNE 11, 2021 3 2021 CIO OF THE YEAR | KEYNOTE BRIAN STEVENS | CEO | NEURAL MAGIC INC. ‘YOU GET TO BUILD THINGS’ The former CTO of Red Hat and Google Cloud, and newly named CEO of a Somerville startup, likens programming to carpentry BY JIM MORRISON from the University of New Hampshire industry standard processors. including artificial intelligence, to followed by a master’s degree in As a CTO, he describes himself figure out what customers want before Special to the Journal computer systems from Rensselaer as having been hands-on. He liked to they know they want it. Polytechnic Institute. He’s been the be involved with the development of “Ten years ago, very few people rian Stevens did very well CTO at both Google Cloud and Red new products in addition to managing were talking about AI and now it’s in school and in sports as a Hat, sat on the boards of many tech strategy. “I’ve always put the two moving quickly into every vertical,”