GeorgiaCIO announced the winners of its 2022 CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards. GeorgiaCIO recognized chief information officers in seven key categories – Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, Corporate, & Healthcare. The Awards were presented at the Georgia CIO ORBIE Awards at Cobb Galleria.

“Every organization is technology-dependent, but strong leadership is the X-factor that can turn mundane IT into a remarkable strategic differentiator,” said Brandon Van Orden, GeorgiaCIO Chair. “The ORBIE Awards are meaningful because they are judged by peers – CIOs who understand the challenges of technology leadership.”

The 2022 Georgia CIO ORBIE Award winners are:

›› Jean Holley, Board Director, HERC Holdings Inc & Accord Financial Corp. received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

›› Vijay Raghavan, EVP & CTO, Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group received the Super Global ORBIE for organizations over $3 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.

›› Daniel Volk, SVP, CIO, Crawford and Company received the Global ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue & multi-national operations.

›› Mike Guhl, CIO, HD Supply received the Large Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $2 billion annual revenue.

›› Dr. Tim Chester, VP for IT, University of Georgia received the Enterprise ORBIE for organizations over $1 billion annual revenue.

›› Scott Waid, SVP, Head of Technology, Atlanta Braves National League Baseball Club received the Large Corporate ORBIE for organizations $400 million annual revenue.

›› Elizabeth Hoemeke, CIO, One Inc received the Corporate ORBIE for organizations up to $400 million annual revenue.

›› Dr. Hank Capps, EVP, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Wellstar Health System received the Healthcare ORBIE for hospitals & healthcare organizations.

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 Georgia CIO ORBIE Awards keynote was delivered by Jimmy Etheredge, CEO, Accenture, North America. Nearly 700 guests attended, representing leading Georgia organizations and their technology partners.

The 2022 Georgia CIO ORBIE Awards was made possible by the following sponsors:
›› Underwriters: Lumen, Google Cloud, Intellinet, Insight, & SoftServe, Inc.

›› Gold sponsors: Fortinet, Nagarro, New Relic Inc, Okta, Pariveda Solutions, STONE Resource Group, Twilio, Veristor + Anexinet

›› Silver sponsors: Appian Corporation, Capgemini, Comcast Business, Converge Technology Solutions, Darktrace, Grant Thornton International Ltd., Hylaine, Palo Alto Networks, Pluralsight LLC, ServiceNow, Slack Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services, VMware, Zscaler Inc

›› Bronze sponsors: Accenture, AHEAD, Amazon Web Services, Celsior Tech, Cloudflare, Cognizant, Cumberland Group, Emtec, Inc. GalaxE Solutions, IBM, iVision, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Persistent Systems Inc, Primus Software Corporations, Protiviti, SHI International, Snowflake, Tanium, Tech Mahindra Americas, V-Soft Consulting Group