SPECIAL SECTION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CHICAGO CIO LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION CIO OF THE YEAR AWARDS FROM OUR KEYNOTE LEADERSHIP CHAIR SPEAKER AWARD Pg1 InspireCIO Pg2 Akamai CEO Pg4 Honoring celebrates 20 years Tom Leighton on Tim Theriault of CIO success. how CIOs drive for a career innovation. spent driving business value via technology. The annual Chicago CIO 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 categories will be announced May 17 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile. CONGRATULATIONS 2019 CHICAGO CIO OF THE YEAR® AWARDS NOMINEES MOHAMMAD ADNAN DEAN HAACKER JASON NAJACHT Mizkan CIBC Dentons JOHER AKOLAWALA ROBIN HAMERLINCK LANE CHRIS NASH Mondelez International Shure Incorporated Adtalem Global Education MICHAEL ALLEN STUART HANNAY PEIMAN NAVID Morningstar, Inc. Argonne National Laboratory The Bradford Group CHRISTIAN ANSCHUETZ GREG HARMAN HEATHER NELSON UL W.W. Grainger, Inc. University of Chicago Medicine SCOT BERKEY ROYCE HEANEY DANIEL NOTTKE Illinois Housing Development Authority Berlin Packaging Kirkland & Ellis STEVE BETTS DANIEL HENRY KEN O’BRIEN Health Care Service Corporation McDonald’s Corporation R.R. Donnelley DENNIS BOECKER JOHN HIGGINSON TIM O’HARA Robert Bosch LLC Enova International Wheels, Inc. COLIN BOYD BRAD HILDESTAD MIKE PENNY Komatsu America Country Financial Medline Industries DANIELLE BROWN DAVID HOAG ANNETTE PRATER Brunswick Corporation Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) Brookfield Properties Retail RANDY BURK DAVID HOUCK SCOTT RAMSBOTTOM IHMA Inc LSC Communications Anixter TONY BUTTRICK CHONG HUAN DIANE RANDOLPH Wintrust Financial Corporation Inland Real Estate Group of Companies Ulta Beauty ROBERTA CADIEUX THOMAS IRVINE MARCIO RIBEIRO American Hotel Register Company The Chicago Community Trust Coeur Mining Inc JOE CANNELLA ANDY JOHNSON BRUCE SCHINELLI Tempel Steel Company I-CAR TTX Company, Inc. MARY CECOLA LINDA JOJO PATRICIA SCHMEDA Antares Capital LP United Airlines Elkay Manufacturing Company CYNTHIA CLARKE ANDY JURCZYK JAMES SCHMITT Donnelly Financial Solutions Seyfarth Shaw LLP Smith Senior Living RICK COCHRAN RON JUREK GLENN SCHNEIDER Practice Velocity NORC (National Opinion Research Center) Discover Financial Services TED COLBERT MOHIT KAPOOR SAMIR SHAH Boeing TransUnion Fortune Brands Home & Security GEORGE W. COLEMAN, JR. DEEPAK KAUL EDWARD SMITH Regional Transportation Authority of Zebra Technologies Corporation (Zebra) ABT Electronics, Inc. Northeastern IL (RTA) MICHAEL KENNEDY DEEPA SONI JAMES CONNORS BMO (Bank of Montreal) William Blair Gordon Food Service KEVIN KOMETER TOM SOUTH SUE CZARNECKI Northern Trust Corporation Golub Capital LLC CME Group MARTIN LOGAN CHAD STALLINGS VAVA DIMOND Federal Signal Hub Group, Inc. Guaranteed Rate, Inc. KEVIN LOWELL ADAM STANLEY PATRICK DUNPY Cushman & Wakefield Hospitality Technology Next Generation U.S. Cellular Corporation VIJAY LUTHRA JON STEVENS LISA DYKSTRA CDW Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Northern Trust Corporation of Chicago SUSAN MALISCH DAN SUROWIEC TRACY ELMBLAD Loyola University Baker & McKenzie Hinshaw & Culbertson PAUL MARTIN MICHAEL TEMPLIN MILES ENGLISH Baxter International Gallagher Bassett Echo Global Logistics ANDREW MCINTYRE MANISH TOMAR KAREN FEDYSZYN Chicago Cubs Grant Thornton Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant PHIL MERRELL STEVE TURNER RITA FISHER AIM Specialty Health Walgreens Co Reynolds Consumer Products PETER MOROWSKI CREIGHTON WARREN MATT GONTERMAN CCC Information Services USG Corporation JLL RICH MOZACK RICK WILLIAMS SUREN GUPTA HUB International Limited Ace Hardware Corporation Allstate Insurance Company 20 YEARS of CIO SUCCESS organizations; these are the rock stars of business today. The first CIO of the Year Awards was not only a trailblazer for recognizing the people leading transformation, but eventually led to creating the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GeorgiaCIO) – a local, member-centric, professional organization dedicated to helping CIOs foster meaningful relationships, share best practices, solve problems and achieve their leadership potential. In 2015, we launched BostonCIO and formed the Inspire CIO Leadership Network (InspireCIO), a national professional association for CIOs now with local chapters in Georgia, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, Alabama, Charlotte, Houston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, DC and soon to be New York & Bay Area. We are proud to serve CIOs in growing relationships, recognizing professional achievements and inspiring the next generation of technology leaders. This year, nearly 100 nominations were received for the 2019 Chicago CIO ORBIE Awards, which will honor CIOs across five categories for leadership effectiveness and business value created through innovative use of technology. Finalists and winners are selected through a rigorous, independent judging process led by prior ORBIE winners. The power of CIOs working together & collaborating – across public and private business, government, education, healthcare and nonprofit organizations – Yvonne Scott is incredible. Together, we are making a difference transforming our organizations with technology and Chair, ChicagoCIO enriching Chicagoland and our world. CIO, Crowe LLP The CIOs honored this year are inspiring and challenge all of us to step up and lead well in our organizations. On behalf of ChicagoCIO, I congratulate all the finalists n 1998, when the first CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Award was on their accomplishments and share our gratitude for presented, it was the products, not the people, that were the sponsors, underwriters and staff who make the 2019 at the center of attention. Laptop of the Year, Printer of Chicago CIO ORBIE Awards possible. the Year and PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice awards were common, but it was a start-up called Intellinet that noticed Ithe real heroes were Chief Information Officers (CIOs) who implemented these products, developed solutions and created Sincerely, business value for their organizations. Roll the clock ahead twenty years, and today, CIOs are at the center of business transformation for all organizations. Technology is the engine that drives innovation and growth in every industry and sector in our global economy. It is the leaders who facilitate change by tech-enabling their 1 CIO of the Year Awards VISIONARY PUTS FUTURE IN FOCUS Year ORBIE Awards on communications for his 2012 to more than $2.7 billion May 17. The event honors fundamental contributions to in 2018. Akamai’s security chief information officers who technology. business grew from less than have demonstrated excellence $25 million in 2012 to more in technology leadership. "Innovation is the than $658 million in 2018. Leighton’s vision led to way to stay ahead As bot armies and hackers the creation of the content proliferate, cyber security delivery network (CDN) of the curve." will continue to represent a industry. He is co-founder and big issue for CIOs. The price CEO of Akamai Technologies Leighton will be interviewed tag for cyber attacks over the Inc., a platform that routes at the awards program in a next five years could hit $5.2 content over a gigantic fireside chat format by trillion, according to KEYNOTE SPEAKER network of servers using TransUnion CIO Abhi Dhar. one estimate. TOM LEIGHTON algorithms to utilize the The discussion will focus on CEO, Akamai server closest to the end user, how Leighton has evolved “Innovation is the way to thereby avoiding congestion Akamai over the last six stay ahead of the curve,” and slow response times. years beyond its traditional Leighton says. An effective CIO must Leighton likes to say that CDN business into a rapidly anticipate where technology Akamai’s role in the internet growing cloud-based cyber Andy Ellis, chief security is headed. revolution was to end the security business. officer at Akamai, notes that “World Wide Wait.” at every pivot point for the Industry visionary Tom Cyber security now accounts internet, Leighton was and Leighton will share his In 2018, Leighton received for a quarter of Akamai’s continues to be the visionary thoughts on the future of the prestigious Marconi revenue. Overall, the who enabled it to happen. technology and cyber security Prize that recognizes company’s revenue grew “He inspired a generation,” at the Chicago CIO of the scientific achievements in from less than $1.4 billion in Ellis says. 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