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Winners of the 2008 Ones to Watch Awards
Honoring the next generation of IT leaders and the CIOs who have fostered their talentsMay 02, 2008 — CIO — Got leaders?
It's a question more and more CIOs are asking themselves as retirement, outsourcing and a shrinking pool of IT talent are converging to push leadership development to the top of the to-do list. Cultivating IT leadership is at the core of the 2008 Ones to Watch awards, presented annually by CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council. Through this award, we recognize the next generation of IT leaders and the CIOs who've fostered their talents and helped them advance up the leadership ladder. And with our Standout Award, we highlight those Ones to Watch winners who have excelled in leading innovation, business strategy, project execution, resource management or organizational change.
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The winning accomplishments of the 20 men and women who make up this year's honorees offer proof positive of the benefits of growing your own take-charge leaders. Most have also been lucky enough to have highly supportive bosses who believe in developing IT talent: 83 percent say their CIO is extremely committed to their development, according to our poll of the winners. (How do you measure up to this group of rising stars? Take this quiz and find out.)
Congratulations to all our winners and to the CIOs who nurtured and then nominated this year's class of leaders. We know you'll do great things in the future.
The 2008 Ones to Watch Winners
- Name: Sherry Aaholm
- Age: 45
- Title: EVP, IT
- Company: FedEx Services
- Quote: IT has the potential to change commerce. Where innovation and technology are driven by the customer, IT powers business strategy.
- Name: Yuri Aguiar
- Age: 39
- Title: CTO
- Company: Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
- Quote: My mentor taught me that "unreasonable men get results," to quote George Bernard Shaw. And that only a hand picked and talented team could help a manager reach for the unreasonable and succeed at it.
- Name: Joan Albeck
- Age: 42
- Title: Director, IT Infrastructure
- Company: Scottrade
- Quote: IT is a wonderful way to improve the lives of people of all ages. Technology is with us today and will be with our children tomorrow.
- Name: Leonard Burke
- Age: 43
- Title: VP, Hotel Technology Services
- Company: Hilton Hotels Corp.
- Quote: The highlight of my career has been working internationally. This experience has given me a whole new perspective on delivering solutions to a global marketplace.
- Name: Elvis Cernjul
- Age: 37
- Title: Senior Director of Technical Services
- Company: Spiegel Brands Inc.
- Quote: My mentor taught me how to see things objectively, quickly get to the heart of the matter, and move directly to results.
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