MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Announces Leading Chief Information Officers as Finalists for 2021 CIO Leadership Award
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14th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award. The winner will be announced on a digital panel at The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium on May 18, 2021.
For more than a decade, the Award has recognized Chief Information Officers (CIOs) who lead their organizations to deliver exemplary levels of business value through innovative use of IT. The awards committee is pleased to recognize these five MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award Finalists, said George Westerman, Award Co-Chair. Each of these individuals has used technology to transform their digital enterprise and shift it into high gear.
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TORONTO, April 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Equifax, a global data analytics and technology leader, has named Richard Oh as Chief Technology Officer for Equifax Canada. Equifax has been on a journey of transformation to drive innovation by reconceiving and rebuilding the company’s technology systems and processes and moving to cloud-native architecture. This appointment of a new CTO is an important step forward in this process.
Richard Oh has spent over 25 years in innovation, entrepreneurship and enterprise solution delivery, and was most recently a founder of Highdegree, LLC., a joint venture with IronNet Cybersecurity, which was subsequently fully acquired by IronNet. He has worked with clients to deliver advanced digital and data solutions, and has an exemplary track record leading business transformation initiatives across various industries including financial, logistics, government, healthcare, cybersecurity and telco.
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Ginny Hamilton (Editorial Team) | January 11, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic reset business expectations in a monumental way – and elevated the role of CIOs who led strong responses to the immediate crisis. Those CIOs now find themselves with amplified influence, according to new research from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services.
The crisis, for all of its challenges, shattered previous notions of what was and wasn t possible, liberating CIOs to do things in new ways.
“The crisis, for all of its challenges, shattered previous notions of what was and wasn’t possible, liberating CIOs to do things in new ways. Organizations in general, and CIOs specifically, are operating under new rules for the next normal,” the report states.