Event Information
| REGISTER NOW: |
| Date: |
Wednesday, March 7 |
| Time: |
5 - 6 p.m.
6 - 7 p.m.
7 - 8 p.m.
8 - 9 p.m. |
Registration & Opening Cocktail Reception
Dinner
Program & Announcement of Winners
Dessert Reception |
| Venue: |
Heinz Field , 100 Art Rooney Drive, 15212-5775 |
Register: |
Online |
Categories/Finalists
Global Category – Greater than 10,000 Employees
Werner Baer, PPG Industries
Francois Estellon, CATERPILLAR Global Mining
Steve Hanna, Kennametal
Ray Huber, Eaton Corporation
Global Category – Less Than 10,000 Employees
Robert Hiser, MedExpress Urgent Care
Rich Liebscher, Eat'n Park Hospitality Group
Carlo Morgano, EQT
Gary Piganell, ANSYS, Inc.
George Rosato, CONSOL Energy
Bonnie K. Smith, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Enterprise Category – 250 – 1,500 Employees
Jay Copenhaver, GAI Consultants, Inc.
Ruth DeLost-Wylie, Peoples Natural Gas Company
Ben Glaser, S&T Bank
Mark Krupinski, WesBanco
Cynthia Lesker, Kurt J. Lesker
Spencer Miller, DynaVox Mayer-Johnson
Growth Category – Under 250 Employees
Dan Frazier, ECSI
Bruce Freshwater, Sierra w/o Wires
Christopher F. Hayes, Net Health Systems, Inc.
Peter Herzum, Wolfe, LLC
Stephen Menke, BodyMedia
Erik Watts, Pittsburgh Penguins
Non-Profit Category
George Appley, Concurrent Technologies Corporation
Chuck Mance, California University of Pennsylvania
Robert Patterson, Allegheny County
Eric Schulties, Institute for Transfusion Medicine
James Venturella, UPMC
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Past CIO of the Year Winners
With each passing year, our list of award recipients grows more and more prestigious...
Non-Profit
Howard A. Stern, Ph.D., City of Pittsburgh; Tim Casey, Allegheny HealthChoices, Inc.; Sean Smiles, Dollar Energy Fund; Jinx Walton, University of Pittsburgh; Thomas Yanosick, Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau; Tom Tabor, Highmark; Jonathan M. Edmonds, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust; Daniel S. Drawbaugh, UPMC
Growth (fewer than 250 employees)
Andrew Rabin, CECity; Jey Baskar, AIReS; Kevin Amos, IMPAQT; Mark A. Ohlund, Pittsburgh Logistics Systems, Inc.; Teresa Donatelli, Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh; James Morris, Medmark; Joseph V. Rodella, RoData, Inc.
Enterprise (between 250 and 1,000 employees)
John Miller, American Textile Company; James Shaw, Management Science Associates, Inc.; Suzanne Lindahl, Atlas Energy Resources; Stacey A. Fedorka, Union Switch & Signal Inc.; Andy Roach, Ketchum; John Benzinger, ServiceLink; Bruno Hall, Laurel Networks
Global (more than 1,000 employees)
Kenneth J. Spangler, FedEx Ground; Sue A. McMurdy, First Commonwealth Financial Corporation; Liam Durbin, H.J. Heinz Company - Heinz North America; James McEvoy, II-VI Incorporated; Gary Becker, Reed Smith LLP; Raj Datt, Kennametal Inc.; Mark Miko, The Armstrong Group of Companies; Diane Watson, MEDRAD; Steven W. Agnoli, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
CIO Choice Award
Rex Althoff, Federated Investors, Inc.
