Winners of 2021 BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards Announced

By Maria Kingston.
Updated Sep 24, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) September 24, 2021 - BayAreaCIO announced the winners of its 2021 CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards. BayAreaCIO recognized chief information officers in eight key categories Leadership, Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, Corporate, & Public Sector. The BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards were presented virtually.

The BayAreaCIO ORBIE winners demonstrate the significance of strong technology leadership in these uncertain times. Over the past year, CIOs are leading in unprecedented ways and enabling the largest work-from-home experiment in history, according to Lourdes Gipson, Executive Director of BayAreaCIO. The ORBIE Awards are meaningful because they are judged by peers - CIOs who understand how difficult this job is and why great leadership matters.

The 2021 BayAreaCIO ORBIE Award winners are:

The CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards is the premier technology executive recognition program in the United States. Since inception in 1998, over 1,800 CIOs have been honored as finalists and over 400 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:

The BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Jim Whitehurst, Senior Advisor of IBM. Nearly 450 guests attended virtually, representing leading Bay Area organizations and their technology partners.

The 2021 BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:

About BayAreaCIO

BayAreaCIO is the preeminent peer leadership network of Bay Area chief information officers. BayAreaCIO is one of 21 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.

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