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Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:44:37 EST Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:44:37 EST Movers and Shakers Blog 60 http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/logo/;pos=top;sz=120x69;tile=1;ord=107182005133846? http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/logo/;pos=top;sz=120x69;tile=1;ord=10718200513384? http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=18337 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=18337 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=1;ord=107182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=1;ord=107182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><P>After several months of development, CIO has launched its updated blog site, at <A href="http://blogs.cio.com/">blogs.cio.com</A>.</P> <P>There you&#8217;ll find the new home of <A href="http://blogs.cio.com/blog/6">Movers &amp; Shakers</A> as well as Chris Lindquist&#8217;s <A href="http://blogs.cio.com/node/180" target=_blank>Tech LinkLetter</A>, Lorraine Cosgrove Ware&#8217;s <A href="http://blogs.cio.com/node/176" target=_blank>The Numbers Never Lie</A> and Chris Koch&#8217;s <A href="http://blogs.cio.com/node/179" target=_blank>IT Strategy</A> blogs.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll also find CIO&#8217;s newest blogs: Elana Varon&#8217;s <A href="http://blogs.cio.com/node/175" target=_blank>Practical Innovation</A> and Ben Worthen&#8217;s <A href="http://blogs.cio.com/node/181" target=_blank>Net Effect</A>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT size=2>This is an exciting change for us, but it means some changes for you as well. Our RSS feeds have shifted to&nbsp;a new server. This link will take you to the new <A href="http://blogs.cio.com/blog/6/feed" target=_blank>Movers &amp; Shakers RSS feed</A>.&nbsp; Visit <A href="http://blogs.cio.com/">blogs.cio.com</A> for feeds for the rest of our blogs.&nbsp; And if you&#8217;ve bookmarked Movers &amp; Shakers, make sure you bookmark its new page.&nbsp;</FONT></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=18337"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:16:43 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=18118 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=18118 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>I apologize for not posting any new announcements about CIOs over the past few days.&nbsp; CIO is in the process of deploying new blogging software, and I was instructed last Friday not to post anything new until my blog was moved over to a new server.&nbsp; I&#8217;m back in action today, and I have many CIO announcements&nbsp;to report.</P> <P><IMG height=94 src="http://www.dow.com/corpgov/images/kepler(2).jpg" width=73 align=left> </P> <P>Yesterday, <B><A href="http://www.dow.com/" target=_blank><B>Dow Chemical</B></A></B> announced that <B><A href="http://www.dow.com/about/aboutdow/lead/kepler.htm" target=_blank><B>Dave Kepler</B></A></B>&nbsp;(pictured at left)&nbsp; was appointed senior vice president of the company.&nbsp; Kepler, who serves as head of shared services and CIO, will now also co-chair the Midland, Mich.-based company&#8217;s environmental, health and safety board as well as chair its corporate environmental advisory council.&nbsp; In his new position, he will be responsible for driving Dow&#8217;s sustainability and corporate security agendas.&nbsp; Kepler, who has served as Dow&#8217;s CIO since 1998, takes on this new role from <B>Larry Washington</B>, who&#8217;s retiring from Dow at the end of March.&nbsp; Kepler has worked for Dow since 1975. For more information on Kepler&#8217;s new role, check out the <A href="http://news.dow.com/corporate/2006/20060227a.htm" target=_blank>press release</A> Dow issued. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=18118"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:12:20 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17947 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17947 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Internet-based gift purveyor <STRONG><A href="http://www.redenvelope.com/"><STRONG>RedEnvelope</STRONG></A></STRONG> hired <STRONG>Frank Buettner</STRONG> as its new COO.&nbsp; Buettner, 50, most recently served as the VP of operations and IT for <STRONG>Bag Borrow or Steal</STRONG>, an early stage internet company.&nbsp; Prior to Bag Borrow, he served as Nordstrom Direct&#8217;s CIO and COO, where he was responsible for all fulfillment operations, customer service centers and IT initiatives. He also previously worked for Lands&#8217; End for 20 years.&nbsp; His last position with the Wisconsin-based cataloguer was as vice president of its international division.</P><IMG height=240 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/110103_poor_davis.jpg" width=150 align=left> <P><B>Mark Hammersmith</B> will join Richmond, Va.-based brokerage <B>Wachovia Securities</B> as its CIO on February 28.&nbsp; The Yale grad will report to <B>Martin Davis</B> (pictured at left), <A href="http://www.wachovia.com/" target=_blank>Wachovia</A>&#8217;s corporate CIO, and will be a member of Wachovia Securities operating committee.&nbsp; Hammersmith most recently worked for <B>MetLife</B>&#8217;s institutional business and for MetLife Bank as CIO.&nbsp; </P> <P><B>Diane Duggan</B>, executive vice president of technology and media services at <B><A href="http://www.discovery.com/" target=_blank><B>Discovery Communications</B></A></B>, promoted <B>John Honeycutt</B> to EVP of media technology and operations.&nbsp; Honeycutt most recently served as SVP of the television operatons group&#8212;a position he&#8217;s held since he joined the network in 2003. In that role, he directed the design and launch of Discovery&#8217;s Television and Technology Center and he lead Discovery&#8217;s digitization initiative, both of which helped earn Discovery Communications a CIO-100 award in 2005.&nbsp; In his new role, he will be responsible for identifying future media technology trends, enacting operational efficiencies across Discovery and developing strategies for Discovery&#8217;s participation in the technical societies and organizations that guide global standards creation.</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17947"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:14:42 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17881 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17881 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=4;ord=407182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=4;ord=407182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><P>Score one point for <B><A href="http://www.salesforce.com/" target=_blank><B>Salesforce.com</B></A></B>: In the CRM on-demand wars, Salesforce.com chalks up a point for hiring a new CTO from nemesis <B><A href="http://www.siebel.com/" target=_blank><B>Siebel</B></A></B>. The employee in question, one <B>Bernard Pech</B>, is charged with developing higher-end capabilities and drawing in enterprise level customers, according to <I><A href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=7E6A96CC-73C2-4D4D-8A50-7855D15EE212" target=_blank><I>Computer Business Review</I></A></I>. Pech worked as Siebel&#8217;s CTO for seven years.&nbsp; </P> <P>File this next announcement under: Don&#8217;t Send Your Resume To This Company&#8230;<B>Bassam Fawaz</B> will be leaving his post as SVP of worldwide operations and CIO of marketing services firm <B><A href="http://www.emak.com/" target=_blank><B>EMAK Worldwide</B></A></B> at the end of the month.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know the details surrounding Fawaz&#8217;s imminent departure, but given the fact that EMAK announced a restructuring last December and given that the <A href="http://equity-marketing.com/absolutenm/templates/Press.asp?articleid=99&amp;zoneid=6" target=_blank>press release</A> mentioning Fawaz also references streamlining the company&#8217;s management structure, consolidating functions and driving out costs, I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and say that I think Fawaz is being restructured out of a job. What do you think? Ya think EMAK is eliminating the CIO post to cut costs, just as they did with the CFO post a few months ago?&nbsp; Use the feedback form to speculate. </P> <P>Here&#8217;s another interesting press release I came across today: <B>RehabCare Group</B> hired <B>Jay Shreiner</B> as its new SVP and CFO.&nbsp; Shreiner is definitely a finance guy, but he did once serve as CIO of <B>Kellogg</B>.&nbsp; RehabCare&#8217;s CIO, <B>Natasha Hawkins</B>, will report directly to Shreiner once he starts on March 27.&nbsp; I ask you, dedicated readers, is Shreiner&#8217;s stint as a CIO a good thing or a bad thing for Hawkins?&nbsp; Use the feedback form to elaborate.&nbsp; Please. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17881"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:54:27 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17792 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17792 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">On Wednesday, I reported that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17727" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gaylord Entertainment</B></A></B> had appointed its third CIO (<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Rich Maradik</B>) in five years.&nbsp; An astute reader e-mailed me to inquire about the high CIO turnover at the Nashville-based hospitality company. He wondered if the reporting relationship was to blame.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&#8220;I have no idea why they have the turnover they have,&#8221; this reader wrote to me. &#8220;But one thing struck me immediately. The position reports to the CFO.&nbsp; It is usually the kiss of death, not always, but usually.<FONT size=3> </FONT>Is CFO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">David Kloeppel</B> the "constant" in the equation?&#8221;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Upon reading his e-mail, I had one of those &#8216;Why didn&#8217;t I think of that?&#8217; moments. So I did some quick research to see if I could confirm this reader&#8217;s theory. The press releases I found announcing Gaylord&#8217;s previous CIOs, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Rickie</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Hall</B> and <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Karen</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Spacek</B>, didn&#8217;t identify to whom they reported. &nbsp;Does anyone else want to speculate on the reason for the high CIO turnover rate at Gaylord, or iother companies?&nbsp;Use the feedback form to share your thoughts, or to demonize CFOs.&nbsp; I should note that <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">CIO</I>&#8217;s most recent <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/010106/JAN1SOC.pdf">State of the CIO research</A> shows that the average tenure of a CIO today to be close to five years. It also showed more and more CIOs reporting to the CEO, not the CFO. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17792"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:36:43 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17727 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17727 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Grand Ole Opry operator <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.gaylordentertainment.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gaylord Entertainment Company</B></A></B> hired <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Rich Maradik</B> as its new senior vice president and CIO.&nbsp; Maradik reports to Gaylord Entertainment&#8217;s CFO, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">David Kloeppel</B>.&nbsp; Among his top priorities: deploying technology to support Gaylord Entertainment&#8217;s customer management and brand integration efforts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Maradik comes to the Nashville, Tenn.-based hospitality company from <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">SmartDM</B>, an e-mail marketing firm he co-founded, which <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Acxiom</B> acquired in January 2005.&nbsp; <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Others who&#8217;ve previously held the SVP and CIO position at Gaylord Entertainment include (drum roll, please)&#8230;<o:p></o:p></P> <UL> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Rickie Hall</B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">, who was hired in March 2003 from ANC Rental, and </SPAN></DIV></LI> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Karen Spacek</B>, who joined the company in 2001.&nbsp; </SPAN></DIV></LI></UL> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17727"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:25:16 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17708 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17708 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=7;ord=707182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=7;ord=707182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><IMG height=303 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/031503_lords_kelly.jpg" width=168 align=left> <P><STRONG>Gerald (<A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/110104/outsource.html">Garry</A>) F. Kelly Jr.</STRONG> (pictured at left) was appointed to the board of directors of <B><A href="http://www.footstar.com/" target=_blank><B>Footstar</B></A></B>, a footwear retailer that emerged from bankruptcy earlier this month. The former <B>Sears</B> CIO, who was ousted when Sears merged with <B>Kmart</B> and Kmart&#8217;s CIO, <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/070102/tl_movers.html"><B>Karen Austin</B></A></B>, was named CIO of the combined company, currently serves as interim CIO of <B>United Airlines</B>.&nbsp; </P> <P><B>Sue Unger</B>, <B><A href="http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/" target=_blank><B>DaimlerChrysler</B></A></B>&#8217;s SVP and CIO, was honored with the <B><A href="http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/" target=_blank><B>Automotive Hall of Fame</B></A>&#8217;s</B> <B>Distinguished Service Citation</B> on February 12, 2006. The award recognizes men and women who have made &#8220;significant contributions&#8221; to the auto industry.&nbsp; To learn more about Unger, read <I>CIO</I>&#8217;s profile of her, <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/061503/driving.html">Sue Unger&#8217;s Driving Lessons</A>, which appeared in the June 15, 2003 issue.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17708"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:10:49 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17691 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17691 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B>New York City</B>&#8217;s Deputy CIO, <B>Larry Knafo</B>, is leaving his post on February 24, 2006, according to <I><A href="http://www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=98419" target=_blank><I>Government Technology</I></A></I>. He is joining <B>Cisco</B>.&nbsp; The Big Apple&#8217;s former CIO, Gino Menchini, announced that he would be <A href="http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/97687" target=_blank>leaving his post</A> last December. </P> <P><B>Chuck Siemon</B> joined <B><A href="http://www.wholehealthnet.com/" target=_blank><B>Whole Health Management</B></A></B>, which operates corporate health clinics, as its CIO.&nbsp; He comes to the Cleveland, Ohio-based company from <B>Progressive Insurance</B>.&nbsp; Prior to that, he helped build Kaiser Permanente&#8217;s computerized medical records system as its chief systems architect.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17691"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:56:35 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17631 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17631 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=105 src="http://www.lucent.com/corpinfo/images/bruch_sm2.jpg" width=75 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.lucent.com/corpinfo/bios/bruch.html" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ruth Bruch</B></A></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">&nbsp;(pictured at left)</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">&nbsp;is leaving her post as SVP and CIO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Lucent Technologies</B>.&nbsp; Today may be her last day with the Murray Hill, N.J.-based company.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>A PR person for Lucent told me she&#8217;s joining <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.kelloggcompany.com/kelloggco/index.html" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Kellogg</B></A></B>, and that the move to the Battle Creek, Mich.-based cereal-maker brings Bruch closer to her <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place> roots.&nbsp; Lucent has not yet named a successor to Bruch, but in the interim, her team will report to Lucent COO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Frank D&#8217;Amelio</B>.&nbsp; <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ron Griffin</B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"> has made his comeback.&nbsp; The former <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Home Depot</B> CIO was hired to lead global application development and support for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">HP&#8217;s Technology Solutions Group</B>.&nbsp; This new role seems an appropriate fit for <st1:City w:st="on">Griffin</st1:City> considering all the internal application development he oversaw while working for Home Depot (To learn more about IT at Home Depot,&nbsp;read my August 1, 2004 <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/080104/homedepot.html" target=_blank>cover story</A> on the home improvement retailer.)&nbsp; <st1:City w:st="on">Griffin</st1:City>, 52, reports to HP EVP and CIO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Randy Mott</B>. For more on <st1:place w:st="on">Griffin</st1:place>, check out the <A href="http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2006/060209a.html" target=_blank>news release</A> on HP&#8217;s web site. </SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17631"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:20:21 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17570 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17570 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=10;ord=1007182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=10;ord=1007182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><IMG height=160 src="http://www.fanniemae.com/aboutfm/images/executives/jstjohn160.jpg" width=160 align=left> <P>The <I><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/" target=_blank><I>Washington Post</I></A></I> today reports on the salaries and bonuses <B>Fannie Mae</B> executives will receive this year.&nbsp; <B><A href="http://www.fanniemae.com/aboutfm/executives/stjohn.jhtml;jsessionid=VUORAGBVJPW2DJ2FECHSFGI?p=About+Fannie+Mae&amp;s=Executives" target=_blank><B>Julie St. John</B></A></B> (pictured above), Fannie&#8217;s EVP and CIO, will be paid a salary of $529,642.&nbsp; Her bonus will exceed $700,000.&nbsp; (For those of you who don&#8217;t remember, Fannie Mae got caught in an accounting scandal in 2004. The company was found to have manipulated its earnings going back to 1998.)&nbsp; </P> <P>Yesterday, <B>Delta Air Lines</B> promoted <B><A href="http://news.delta.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=10071" target=_blank><B>Shirley Bridges</B></A></B> to CIO and president and CEO of its subsidiary <B>Delta Technology</B>.&nbsp; She most recently served as Delta Technology&#8217;s COO, where she was responsible for overseeing business processes and maintenance and operation of systems.&nbsp; A sixteen year veteran of the airline, Bridges previously served as vice president of airline operations systems.&nbsp; In that capacity she was responsible for managing all software applications that run Delta&#8217;s maintenance, repair and overhaul facility, its operational control center, its flight attendant and pilot scheduling and communications systems, and its corporate compliance and safety reporting systems. </P><IMG height=190 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/cio_cover_080104.jpg" width=161 align=right> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17570"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:23:01 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17531 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17531 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B>Jim Petit</B> was promoted to vice president of business transformation at <B><A href="http://www.diebold.com/" target=_blank><B>Diebold</B></A></B>, which makes security systems, electronic voting systems and ATMs.&nbsp; His promotion comes amidst a reorganization of the $2.6 billion-company&#8217;s global IT and business transformation functions designed to improve customer loyalty, supply chain efficiencies, forecasting, and simplify product offerings.&nbsp; In his new role, Petit will be in charge of efforts to improve demand planning and to decrease the time it takes the company to obtain payments from customers. &nbsp;Petit most recently served as director of business transformation and Oracle enterprise resource planning. <B>John Crowther</B> continues to serve as Diebold&#8217;s CIO.</P> <P><B>Wayne Lambert</B> joined <B><A href="http://www.jewelrytelevision.com/" target=_blank><B>Jewelry Television</B></A></B> as its CIO.&nbsp; He&#8217;s tasked with building an IT infrastructure that will support the network&#8217;s growth.&nbsp; No stranger to broadcasting, Lambert most recently worked for <B><A href="http://www.scripps.com/index.html" target=_blank><B>Scripps</B></A> </B>as vice president of IS and CIO of its Shop at Home network.&nbsp; He held that position for 14 years.&nbsp; </P> <P><B><A href="http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=NYT&amp;script=410&amp;layout=-6&amp;item_id=813572" target=_blank><B>Robert Kraft</B></A></B>, The New York Times&#8217; group director for enterprise services and chief technology architect for <B><A href="http://www.nytco.com/" target=_blank><B>The New York times Company</B></A></B>, was named to the newly created position of vice president of enterprise services.&nbsp; Kraft, 48, has served as group director for enterprise services and chief technology architect since 2000. In his new role, he will oversee company-wide networks, data centers, server administration and server consolidation.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17531"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:49:14 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17515 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17515 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B>William Wray</B> was elected to network security solutions provider <B><A href="http://www.crossbeamsystems.com/" target=_blank><B>Crossbeam Systems</B></A></B>&#8217; board of directors.&nbsp; Wray currently serves as group executive vice president and CIO of <B><A href="http://www.citizensbank.com/home/" target=_blank><B>Citizens Financial Group</B></A></B>&#8212;a position he&#8217;s held since 2000.&nbsp; He is responsible for integrating the technical and operational aspects of al acquisitions and for managing large system initiatives such as branch automation and enterprise imaging, in addition to day to day operations.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P> <P>And <EM>The New York Times</EM> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Toys-R-Us-CEO.html" target=_blank>reports</A> that <B>Gerald L. Storch</B>, who once oversaw technology operations at <B>Target</B>, was named chairman and CEO of <B>Toys R Us</B>.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17515"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:22:09 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17496 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17496 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=13;ord=1307182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=13;ord=1307182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><P><B><A href="http://www.iomega.com/about/prreleases/2006/020306_ceo_resigns.html" target=_blank><B>Stephen David</B></A></B>, former CIO and chief B2B officer at <B>Procter &amp; Gamble</B>, was appointed interim CEO of <B><A href="http://www.iomega.com/" target=_blank><B>Iomega Corp.</B></A></B> on February 3, 2006.&nbsp; David currently serves as chairman of the Zip drive-maker&#8217;s board of directors. He replaces <B>Werner Heid</B>, who resigned from his position as president and CEO of the San Diego-based company. <A href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060204-9999-1b4iomega.html" target=_blank>Iomega has been struggling</A> financially and has tried to reinvent itself with new products it has later abandoned over the past several years.&nbsp; </P> <P>Information security software provider <B><A href="http://www.symantec.com/index.htm" target=_blank><B>Symantec</B></A></B> has <A href="http://www.securitypronews.com/news/securitynews/spn-45-20060201SymantecPicksUpOracleCIO.html" target=_blank>reportedly</A> hired Oracle&#8217;s <A href="http://www.symantec.com/about/profile/management/executives/bio.jsp?bioid=david_thompson" target=_blank>CIO David Thompson</A>.</P> <P><B>Victor Fetter</B> was appointed CIO of <B><A href="http://www.mercerhr.com/" target=_blank><B>Mercer Human Resource Consulting</B></A></B> today.&nbsp; He succeeds <B>Linda</B> <B>Ison</B>, who was named business process integration leader for global market development. Fetter, 37, joined Mercer in 2001 as a member of its Global IT Leadership group.&nbsp; From 2002 to 2005, he was CIO for Mercer Human Resources U.K. operations and served on its board of directors. Most recently Fetter was Mercer&#8217;s Global Solutions Delivery Leader.&nbsp; Before joining Mercer, Fetter lead one of Hewitt Associates global technology practices from 1996 to 2001.</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17496"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:23:39 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17457 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17457 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.dominos.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Domino&#8217;s Pizza</B></A></B> delivered a new CIO.&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Christopher McGlothlin</B>, 41, was named EVP and CIO of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based pizza chain today.&nbsp; He reports to Domino&#8217;s Chairman and CEO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">David Brandon</B>, and he replaces <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11763"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Timothy Monteith</B></A></B>, who left Domino&#8217;s last fall to join manufacturer <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.masco.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Masco</B></A></B>. McGlothlin most recently worked for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.yum.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Yum Brands</B></A></B>, which runs KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and other quick service restaurants, as its VP of operations technology.&nbsp; He joined Yum Brands in 1995. &nbsp;</P><IMG height=90 src="http://www.cioforum.com/pix/winners/repr.jpg" width=70 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><STRONG>Randy Epright </STRONG>(pictured at left), SVP and CIO of <A href="http://www.aig.com/gateway/" target=_blank>AIG</A>&#8217;s home retirement savings business, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.aig.com/gateway/asset/1-70-422-3035-United+States_Individual+Consumer_Retirement+Services.htm" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">AIG Retirement Services</B></A></B>, was also made COO yesterday. In his expanded role, Epright, 43, takes on strategic planning and will be additionally responsible for extending best practices across all of AIG Retirement Services&#8217; customer service operations and for making the business more efficient. Epright has worked for AIG since December 1995.&nbsp; He&#8217;s held the SVP and CIO post at its retirement savings business since June 2002. </SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17457"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:59:37 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17413 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17413 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><STRONG>Randall Poppell</STRONG>, CIO of <STRONG>UniGroup</STRONG> (which runs United Van Lines, Mayflower Transit and other transportation companies), assumed the additional role of SVP in charge of strategic planning.&nbsp; As such, Poppell will lead the company&#8217;s executive management team and board of directors in developing strategic objectives and implementing long-range strategic plans. Poppell has worked for the Fenton, Mo.-based company since 2001.&nbsp; Previously, he was SVP and CIO at <STRONG>GenAmerica Financial</STRONG>.&nbsp; He worked for that company for 10 years.</P> <P><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">InterContinental Hotels Group</B></A></B>&nbsp;announced yesterday that it had hired its first CIO.&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Tom</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Conophy</B> was appointed to the senior most IT position inside the hospitality company.&nbsp; He will start his new job later this month.&nbsp; Conophy, 45, will report directly to CEO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Andrew Cosslett</B> and will sit on InterContinental&#8217;s executive committee.&nbsp; Conophy most recently worked for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.starwoodhotels.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts</B></A></B> where he served as EVP and CTO.&nbsp; Prior to Starwood, he was SVP of strategic architecture at Sabre.&nbsp; He&#8217;s also held senior technology management posts at Galileo International and Century Analysis.&nbsp; The executive search firm <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.egonzehnder.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Egon Zehnder</B></A></B> placed Conophy with InterContinental. </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Paul Gallagher</B> joined <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.wellpoint.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">WellPoint</B></A></B> as SVP of enterprise operations.&nbsp; He reports to <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mark Boxer</B>, EVP of technology and operations and CIO at the North Haven, Conn.-based health benefits company. (Boxer replaced <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13623" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ron Ponder</B></A></B> as CIO at the end of 2005.)&nbsp; Gallagher is responsible for developing and implementing enterprise-wide strategies for increasing operational efficiency, lowering costs and improving customer service. (Don&#8217;t lowering costs and improving customer service cancel each other out?&nbsp; I guess succeeding at both will be Gallagher&#8217;s challenge.)&nbsp; Gallagher comes to WellPoint from <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.axafinancial.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">AXA</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Financial</B></A></B>, where he served as SVP of service delivery.&nbsp; Prior to AXA Financial, he was president of Fidelity Service Company (the transfer agent for Fidelity&#8217;s retail business) and an EVP for Fidelity Brokerage Company. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17413"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:27:32 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17377 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17377 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=16;ord=1607182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=16;ord=1607182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">In a departure from my usual list of CIOs moving into new positions, I&#8217;m devoting today&#8217;s blog to elaborating on some of the points I made in the Trendline I wrote for the February 1, 2006 issue of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">CIO</I>, <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/020106/tl_move.html">After the Merger, Who&#8217;s In, Who&#8217;s Out</A>. With <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17368">merger and acquisition</A> activity expected to increase this year, I think it&#8217;s important for CIOs to understand how companies decide which CIO to keep on board after a merger or acquisition so that they can watch out for signs that might indicate they&#8217;re not in favor and can thus prepare themselves to start looking for their next big thing.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In a merger of equals, where two companies combine to gain efficiencies, boards of directors will chose the CIO who has had successful experience integrating companies that have merged in the past, says Shawn Banerji, a recruiter with Russell Reynolds. He says boards tend to view prior success as the greatest indicator of future success.&nbsp; If neither CIO possesses that experience, boards will recruit one who does.&nbsp; &nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17377"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:24:07 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17335 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17335 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Thanks to the reader who informed me that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.imakenews.com/edgellris/e_000104593000042394.cfm?x=b11,0,w" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Laurie Zeitlin</B></A></B> left <STRONG><A href="http://www.fedex.com/us/officeprint/main/" target=_blank><STRONG>FedEx Kinko&#8217;s</STRONG></A></STRONG> earlier this month to join grocery store chain <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.publix.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Publix</B></A></B> in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:State w:st="on">Florida</st1:State>.&nbsp; She had served as FedEx Kinko&#8217;s SVP and CIO since the fall of 2003.&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Richard Maranville</B>, FedEx Kinko&#8217;s former vice president of technology field services, replaced Zeitlin as SVP and CIO.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.hiltonfamily.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Hilton Hotels</B></A></B> officially promoted its SVP and CIO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">James (&#8220;Tim&#8221;) Harvey</B> to EVP and CIO yesterday.&nbsp; A 25-year-veteran of the hospitality industry, Harvey joined Hilton when it acquired <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Promus Hotel Corp</B>. in 1999. He is based in the hotel chain&#8217;s office in Memphis, Tenn. and reports to President and COO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Matthew Hart</B>. </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">After six months on the job as director of technology for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.providence.org/resources/phs/FactSheet.pdf" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Providence Health &amp; Services</B>&#8217;</A></B> Washington region, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jody Albright</B> was promoted to CIO for the Western Washington and Montana region.&nbsp; Before joining Providence Health &amp; Services in June 2005, Albright was a consultant with <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.pointb.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Point B Solutions Group</B></A></B>, and she worked for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Boeing</B> as a senior IT manager. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17335"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:34:03 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17257 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17257 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">This past week may well have been the slowest week for CIO announcements since I started this blog last August.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Here are a few blurbs and an update on a CIO I wrote about in November to end a quiet week:</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">I heard through the grapevine that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Joshua Levine</B> recently retired as CTO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.etrade.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">E-Trade</B></A></B>.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t yet confirmed this with the company, but I do know that he joined E-Trade in October 1999 from Deutsche Bank, where he was managing director and global head of equities technology. Anybody want to share anything about Levine or E-Trade through the feedback mechanism? <o:p></o:p></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17257"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:14:46 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17192 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17192 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=19;ord=1907182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=19;ord=1907182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; tab-stops: 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Since I didn&#8217;t find any new job announcements about CIOs this morning, I decided to whip up a quick post about an <A href="http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2149170/cio-role-set-major-changes" target=_blank>article</A> that appeared on <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Computing</I>&#8217;s <A href="http://www.cio.com/www.computing.co.uk" target=_blank>web site</A> today. &nbsp;The article, which is based on research from Gartner, posits that the CIO role is going to change dramatically this year.&nbsp; Where CIOs have focused their attentions inside their organizations on cost-cutting and operational efficiency over the past several years, 2006 is going to see them more focused on innovation and enabling their companies&#8217; growth.&nbsp; How does that prediction match up with what you see yourself doing this year?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Use the feedback mechanism to weigh in.</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; tab-stops: 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; tab-stops: 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none">The article also quotes a Gartner VP who says the CIO role is going to become even more challenging this year, as CIOs struggle to meet their companies&#8217; expectations that IT will give them a competitive edge.&nbsp; <A href="http://idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF000127" target=_blank>John Gantz</A>, IDC&#8217;s chief research officer, made a similar comment about companies&#8217; heightened expectations of IT and the challenges they pose to CIOs yesterday when he and his colleague <A href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF001873" target=_blank>Frank Gens</A> offered their predictions for 2006.&nbsp; (IDC is a sister company to <EM>CIO</EM>&#8217;s publisher, CXO Media.) Check out Frank&#8217;s <A href="http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=45" target=_blank>blog</A>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17192"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:11:48 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17127 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17127 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=157 src="http://www.va.gov/OIT/CIO/images/meagher.jpg" width=135 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; tab-stops: 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Federal Computer Week</I> (FCW) <A href="http://www.fcw.com/article92064-01-23-06-Web" target=_blank>reported</A> earlier this week that the CTO of the U.S.&nbsp;<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.va.gov/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Department of Veterans Affairs</B></A></B> (VA) is moving to the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.interior.gov/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Interior Department</B></A></B>.&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.va.gov/OIT/CIO/meagher.asp" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Edward Meagher</B></A></B>&nbsp;(pictured at left) , who has served as CTO of the VA since December 2005, will take on the deputy CIO post at the Interior Department on February 19.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; tab-stops: 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17127"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:15:46 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17048 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17048 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">So far, it&#8217;s a slow week for announcements about CIOs.&nbsp; Here are the two most recent ones I&#8217;ve come across.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.worthingtonindustries.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Worthington Industries</B></A></B> hired <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.worthingtonindustries.com/NewsRoom/NewsReleases_Details.asp?rId=182" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Robert Richardson</B></A></B> as its new CIO.&nbsp; One of his top priorities at the Columbus, Ohio-based metal processing company will be implementing an ERP system.&nbsp; Richardson comes to Worthington Industries from transportation construction company <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.ashland.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ashland</B></A></B> where he most recently served as director of IT global architecture.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17048"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:14:17 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16947 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16947 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=22;ord=2207182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=22;ord=2207182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">After just six months on the job as SVP and CIO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.ncen.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">New Century Financial</B></A></B>, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Joseph Eckroth</B> has been <A href="http://investorrelations.ncen.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=73989&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=806240&amp;highlight=" target=_blank>promoted</A> to EVP and has been made COO of the Irvine, Calif.-based real estate investment trust&#8217;s mortgage business.&nbsp; <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/051502/hs_toy.html">Eckroth</A> joined New Century in July 2005 after working for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.mattel.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mattel</B></A></B> for five years. </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Penn State University</B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">&#8217;s first and only CIO to date is set to <A href="http://live.psu.edu/story/15569" target=_blank>retire</A> this summer.&nbsp;<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gary Augustson</B> has led IT at the 24 campus university for the past 24 years.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16947"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:39:27 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16888 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16888 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=258 src="http://www2.cio.com/archive/081505/images/FredMatteson.jpg" width=156 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Thanks to the reader who informed me that&nbsp;<STRONG><A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2004/mover1839.html"><STRONG>Fred Matteson</STRONG></A></STRONG>&nbsp;(pictured at left), SVP and CIO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Fireman&#8217;s Fund</B>, has left that company. (A PR person with Fireman&#8217;s Fund confirmed that Matteson, who joined&nbsp;the company&nbsp;at the end of 2003,&nbsp;is no longer an employee.) His last day was Monday, January 16.&nbsp; Fireman&#8217;s Fund has not yet named a replacement.</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16888"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:10:44 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16869 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16869 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Thanks to the reader who filled me in on this news: <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=183405&amp;p=irol-executivebios" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Karl Taylor</B></A></B> has left <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">CVS</B></A></B>. (Taylor&#8217;s&nbsp;bio and photo remain on CVS&#8217;s web site.)&nbsp; Taylor had served as the Woonsocket, R.I.-based drug store chain&#8217;s CIO since July 2002.&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jon Roberts</B> is the new SVP and CIO.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">William Wied</B> joined <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.echo-inc.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Electronic Clearing House</B></A></B> (ECHO) as its new CIO.&nbsp; He succeeds <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Steven Smith</B>, who joined the company in November 2004 as CIO.&nbsp; Wied comes to the Camarillo, Calif.-based provider of electronic payment and transaction processing services from <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TransCore</B> in Scottsdale, Ariz. There, he served as director of software technology.&nbsp; Previously, he was vice president of engineering at one of TransCore&#8217;s divisions, CarrierPoint.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16869"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:29:41 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16851 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16851 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=25;ord=2507182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=25;ord=2507182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16568">Last week</A> I reported that <STRONG>Brian Light</STRONG> was appointed CIO of <STRONG><A href="http://www.staples.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>Staples</STRONG></A></STRONG>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Light has indeed succeeded <STRONG>Scott Floeck</STRONG> in that role,&nbsp;a PR person for the company confirmed.&nbsp;Floeck remains with the office supply retailer as senior vice president of IS.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16851"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:10:35 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16826 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16826 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>The Empire State (<B>NY</B>) appointed a new CIO, according to <EM><A href="http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/27734-1.html" target=_blank><EM>Washington Technology</EM></A></EM>. <B>Michael</B> <B>Mittleman</B> will move into the post vacated by <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13238" target=_blank><B>James Dillon</B></A></B>, who retired from state government on December 9, 2005, once he&#8217;s confirmed by the State Senate.&nbsp; Mittleman has worked in the New York State Office of the CIO as deputy CIO since 2002.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16826"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:21:50 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16792 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16792 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Let&#8217;s start today&#8217;s entry with some insider gossip: <B><A href="http://www.cendant.com/" target=_blank><B>Cendant</B></A></B> named <B>Jeff Edwards</B> CIO of its hotel group. This qualifies as insider gossip because my credible source on this item told me that it hadn&#8217;t been announced publicly but had been revealed inside the company.&nbsp; Keep those leads coming.&nbsp; </P> <P><I>Federal Computer Week</I> <A href="http://www.fcw.com/article91957-01-12-06-Web" target=_blank>reports</A> that the <B><A href="http://www.archives.gov/" target=_blank><B>National Archives</B></A></B> promoted its CIO, <B>Reynolds Cahoon</B>, to senior advisor on electronic records.&nbsp; Taking over Cahoon&#8217;s CIO duties is <B>Martha Morphy</B>, the director of information resources policy and projects.&nbsp; </P> <P>Earlier this month, <B><A href="http://www.securedfunding.com/" target=_blank><B>Secured Funding</B></A></B> hired <B>Joe Lindsay</B> as its CIO.&nbsp; He joined the Costa Mesa, Calif.-based mortgage provider from <B>QS Labs</B>, where he served as president and CTO. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16792"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:45:30 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16709 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16709 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=28;ord=2807182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=28;ord=2807182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><IMG height=116 src="http://www.educause.edu/email/cr05/images/web.jpg" width=85 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Business performance management software provider <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.hyperion.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Hyperion</B></A></B> elected <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://pages.ebay.com/aboutebay/thecompany/executiveteam.html#Webb" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Maynard Webb</B></A></B>&nbsp;(pictured at left) to its board of directors.&nbsp; A former CIO, Webb currently serves as COO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.ebay.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">eBay</B></A></B>.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"></B>&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16709"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:32:39 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16634 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16634 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=223 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/081504_global_gal.jpg" width=140 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/081504/challenge_opportunities.html"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Tsvi Gal</B></B></A></B></B> (pictured at left) e-mailed me last night to let me know that he joined <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Deutsche Bank</B> as CTO of its asset management business on January 3.&nbsp; Most recently, he worked for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Warner Music Group</B> for over three years as its CIO. Congratulations, Tsvi!&nbsp; Best of luck to you in your new role.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16634"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:14:06 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16568 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16568 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Last August, a reader told me that <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11686"><B>David Bowen</B></A></B>&nbsp;had reportedly left <B>Blue Shield of California</B>.&nbsp; Bowen has since turned up at the <B><A href="http://www.faa.gov/" target=_blank><B>Federal Aviation Administration</B></A></B> (FAA), where he has been named CIO and assistant administrator for information, according to a <A href="http://www.fcw.com/article91924-01-09-06-Web" target=_blank>story</A> in <I>Federal Computer Week</I>. Bowen succeeds Daniel Meehan, who retired from the FAA in September 2005. <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12911"><B>Elinor MacKinnon</B></A></B> replaced Bowen in the CIO role at Blue Shield of California.</P> <P><B>Brian Light</B> has returned to running IT at <A href="http://www.staples.com/" target=_blank>Staples</A>, reporting to Chief Administrative Office <B>John Mahoney</B>.&nbsp; Light most recently served as vice president of business delivery, in charge of the office supply retailers&#8217; catalog and e-commerce businesses.&nbsp; He was <A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/1998/mover102.html">hired</A>&nbsp;as the Framingham, Mass.-based company&#8217;s CIO in 1998. <B>Scott Floeck</B> had most recently served as Staples&#8217; CIO.&nbsp; &nbsp;No word yet from Staples on whether Floeck has moved into another role inside the company or if he&#8217;s left.&nbsp; <B><A href="http://investor.staples.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96244&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=801966&amp;highlight=Light" target=_blank><B>Pete Howard</B></A></B> moved into the business delivery position vacated by Light. </P> <P>Drug developer&nbsp;<B><A href="http://www.covance.com/" target=_blank><B>Covance</B></A></B> named its interim CIO, <B>John Repko</B>, its official CIO.&nbsp; Repko had served as interim CIO since June 2005. Prior to that, he was Covance&#8217;s vice president of global applications.&nbsp; In that position, he organized and led the centralization and globalization of application development, application support and quality control across the company.&nbsp;&nbsp; Prior to joining the N.J.-based company in March 2003, Repko was SVP and CIO at <B>GE American Communications</B>, a division of GE Capital.&nbsp; He spent a total of 14 years at GE in positions of increasing responsibility in finance, IT, e-business and Six Sigma.</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16568"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:51:41 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16535 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16535 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=31;ord=3107182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=31;ord=3107182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Last week, high-flying <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.bedbath.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Bed <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Bath</st1:City> &amp; Beyond</B></A></B> <A href="http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=BBBY&amp;script=410&amp;layout=9&amp;item_id=799986" target=_blank>promoted</A> its CIO, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Richard McMahon</B>, to a newly created position.&nbsp; McMahon is now chief strategy officer and vice president of corporate operations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>He&#8217;s the second CIO I can think of who&#8217;s taken on corporate strategy.&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/090105/tl_on_the_move.html"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ford&#8217;s Marv Adams</B></A></B> is the first one who comes to my mind.&nbsp; I think we&#8217;ll see <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/010106/tl_move.html">more CIOs moving into strategy</A> in 2006.&nbsp; In McMahon&#8217;s new role, he will continue to oversee IT and the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place>, N.J.-based retailer&#8217;s supply chain.&nbsp; He joined the company in August 1998 and was appointed CIO a year later.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>He added VP of supply chain to his title in November 2001.&nbsp; Based on McMahon&#8217;s success at such a successful company, I&#8217;d say this guy is one to watch. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></P><IMG height=176 src="http://www.cinergy.com/images/officers/gaines.jpg" width=125 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">On January 31, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cinergy.com/About_Cinergy_Corp/Corporate_Overview/default_officers.asp?officer_id=33" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Bennett Gaines</B></A></B> (pictured at left) will assume the <A href="http://www.firstenergycorp.com/ir/cache/_FE_latestdevelopments.nsf_0_626E47FBF846D4BD852570EE0058FFF7__file_20060106NewCIOWeb.pdf" target=_blank>CIO role</A> at <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.firstenergycorp.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">FirstEnergy</B></A></B>. He currently works for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Cinergy</B>, which is merging with Duke Energy, as the Cincinnati-based energy company&#8217;s VP and CTO.&nbsp; Gaines succeeds <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">C. John Daugherty</B>, who has served as interim VP and CIO since September 2005.&nbsp; Before joining Cinergy in 2001, Gaines was managing director of business services for Powergen in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United kingdom</st1:country-region>.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16535"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:22:49 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16488 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16488 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=252 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/101504_loop_hummel.jpg" width=150 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">The <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">San Francisco Business Times</I> <A href="http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/01/02/daily28.html?jst=b_ln_hl" target=_blank>reported</A> yesterday that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">John Hummel</B> (pictured at left) is leaving his post as CIO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.sutterhealth.org/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sutter Health</B></A></B> to join <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.perotsystems.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Perot Systems</B></A></B>.&nbsp; Hummel, who&#8217;s 52, has worked for Sutter since 1998.&nbsp; He made his move in order to spend more time with his vivacious wife of 30+ years, Ruth Ann, and his five adult children and five grandchildren.&nbsp; <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/050105/hummel_sidebar_three.html" target=_blank>Hummel</A>, whom I interviewed for a <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/050105/hummel.html">profile</A> that ran in the May 1, 2005 issue, has functioned as a <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/050105/hummel_sidebar_two.html" target=_blank>workaholic</A> for most (if not all) of his career.&nbsp; While working for Sutter, he told me he lived out of hotels two to three days a week in order to cut down on the amount of Bay area traffic he would otherwise have to battle.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16488"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:59:28 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16394 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16394 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>At long last, I&#8217;m back to my blog.&nbsp; &nbsp;</P> <P>While I was on vacation, the big news (in case you haven&#8217;t already heard about it) was that <B>Massachusetts</B>&#8217; embattled CIO <B>Peter Quinn</B> handed in his <A href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=13460&amp;Page=1&amp;pagePos=8" target=_blank>resignation</A>.&nbsp; Quinn became a lightning rod for controversy when he announced in September 2005 official plans to require all documents created by the state&#8217;s executive branch to be stored in an open format, as opposed to Microsoft Word or some other proprietary file format, beginning in 2007. &nbsp;About two months later, the state began investigating whether trips Quinn made to technology conferences violated state travel procedures, according to a <A href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/11/26/romney_administration_reviewing_trips_made_by_technology_chief/" target=_blank>story</A> in <I>The Boston Globe</I>, which spurred the inquiry. &nbsp;Although Quinn was <A href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/10/review_backs_trips_by_technology_chief/" target=_blank>vindicated</A>, he apparently had had enough of the controversy surrounding him.&nbsp; </P> <P>In other personnel news, online movie tickets provider <B><A href="http://www.fandango.com/" target=_blank><B>Fandango</B></A></B> promoted its vice president of operations, <B>Rick Butler</B>, to CIO just a few days before the close of 2005. Butler reports to Fandango&#8217;s president and CEO <B>Art Levitt</B>.&nbsp; In his new post, Butler is responsible for relations with exhibitors, day-to-day IT operations and infrastructure, web site engineering, and theater and customer support.&nbsp; Prior to Fandango, he was senior vice president of operations for the FinancialPrinter.com business unit of Conscium Inc. and regional vice president for Bowne Business Solutions.</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16394"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:08:16 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16041 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16041 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=34;ord=3407182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=34;ord=3407182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><P>This past fall, I spoke with two recruiters from <STRONG>Korn Ferry International</STRONG>, <STRONG>Karen Rubenstrunk</STRONG> and <STRONG>Bob Blumenthal</STRONG>.&nbsp; Karen worked for Meta Group for 10 years prior to joining &#8220;the Korn&#8221; (as employees refer to the firm): She led Meta&#8217;s coaching and advisory service for CIOs.&nbsp; Bob joined Korn Ferry in 2005 from <STRONG>Heidrick &amp; Struggles</STRONG>.&nbsp; </P> <P>I asked Karen and Bob for their perspectives on how CIOs can build constructive relationships with recruiters.&nbsp; Their advice--at times amusing--is candid,&nbsp;practical and absolutely worth reading&#8212;all 1600 words of it!&nbsp; I finally had a chance to edit the Q&amp;A I did with them back in September.&nbsp; I hope you enjoy it.&nbsp; Please feel free to use the feedback mechanism to let me know what you think of it and if you have additional questions you&#8217;d like me to pose to recruiters in the future.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG>CIO:<EM> </EM>How does the recruiting industry work?&nbsp; Does the recruiter represent the company that&#8217;s looking to fill a particular position or does the recruiter represent the CIO who&#8217;s looking for a job? </STRONG></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16041"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:10:04 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16065 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16065 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Several public sector CIO announcements made news this week.&nbsp; Among them,</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">The <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">U.S. State Department</B> appointed a diplomat to serve as its new CIO, according to <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Government Computer News</I> (GCN).&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37811-1.html" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">James Vanderhoff</B></A></B> starts his new job on January 9.&nbsp; He most recently served as a foreign service specialist at the agency. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16065"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:01:04 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16017 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16017 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Who says <A href="http://www.wsbtv.com/employment/3446615/detail.html" target=_blank>women can&#8217;t get ahead</A> at <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.walmartstores.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Wal-Mart</B></A></B>? The retail giant recently promoted <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Nancy Stewart</B> to SVP and CTO, reporting to another woman in power, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Linda Dillman</B>, the CIO.&nbsp; I certainly don&#8217;t mean to downplay the plaintiffs&#8217; allegations in the <A href="http://www.walmartclass.com/staticdata/walmartclass/classcert.pdf" target=_blank>sex discrimination suit</A> against Wal-Mart.&nbsp; Discrimination of any kind can not and should not be tolerated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>But it is nice to see two women in very high level positions, especially in IT, at a $285 billion company, at a time when fewer and fewer female college graduates are making careers out of computer science.&nbsp; However, the cynic in me can&#8217;t help but think Wal-Mart appointed Stewart to make a PR statement and as ammunition in its effort to defend itself against the class action lawsuit that several current and former female Wal-Mart employees have brought upon the company. (One might even perceive Wal-Mart&#8217;s promotion of Stewart as a victory for those women who dared to challenge the business practices at what is arguably one of the most powerful companies in the world.) I realize my cynical attitude doesn&#8217;t take into consideration Stewart&#8217;s experience, which is touched upon in the <A href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news/index_mail.shtml?ACCT=104&amp;STORY=/www/story/12-21-2005/0004238309&amp;EDATE=" target=_blank>news release</A> Wal-Mart issued yesterday. Ms. Stewart, I don&#8217;t mean to insult you in any way. Stewart most recently served as vice president of large systems and infrastructure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>She succeeds <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Matt Carey</B> in the CTO post.&nbsp; Carey is joining <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">eBay</B> as its SVP and CTO.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Anyway, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll hear from Wal-Mart about this post.&nbsp; Or maybe the company won&#8217;t bother with someone it perceives as insignificant.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=16017"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:56:55 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15854 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15854 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<p align="right"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=37;ord=3707182005133846?"/><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.cio.rss/1302/;pos=center;sz=336x280;tile=37;ord=3707182005133846?" border="0" height="280" width="336" align="right"/></a></p><IMG src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/120103_rfid_morrow.jpg" align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN><A href="http://www.7-eleven.com/about/bios/morrow.asp" target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG>Keith Morrow</STRONG></SPAN></A> (pictured at left) made out well amidst his company&#8217;s <A href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news/index_mail.shtml?ACCT=104&amp;STORY=/www/story/12-19-2005/0004236775&amp;EDATE=." target=_blank>management shuffle</A>. The CIO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">7-Eleven</B> was promoted to SVP.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>The management changes were prompted by what appeared to be <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.7-eleven.com/newsroom/articles.asp?p=2373" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jim Keyes</B></A></B>&#8217; sudden resignation in November as the convenience store chain&#8217;s chairman of the board and CEO and the appointment of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.7-eleven.com/newsroom/articles.asp?p=2375" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Joseph DePinto</B></A></B> as Keyes&#8217; successor. Keyes stepped down from his post after Seven-Eleven <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region> bought out 7-Eleven in early November.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">CIO</I> <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/051505/expectations.html" target=_blank>interviewed</A> Keyes for the May 15, 2005 issue about his expectations of IT and his CIO. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15854"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:06:05 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15816 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15816 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">A few months ago, a reader asked me to find out which executive recruitment firms were involved in the announcements I post on this blog.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; It was an excellent recommendation and I thank that reader for it.&nbsp; </SPAN>I do try to obtain this information, but unfortunately companies don&#8217;t want to disclose whether they used a recruiter, let alone which firm, for whatever reason.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Fortunately, thanks to an e-mail I received last week from Gerry McNamara, a recruiter with <A href="http://www.heidrick.com/default.aspx" target=_blank>Heidrick &amp; Struggles</A>, I can tell you that his firm placed the following CIOs:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">Joyce Young</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">, the former CIO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">CP Kelco</B> (a JM Huber Company), is now the global CIO for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">EMD</B> in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City>. EMD, GM&#8217;s old locomotive division, was acquired by a private equity firm and spun off from the beleagured auto-maker in April.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">Lexis-Nexis</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">&#8217;s SVP and Global Product Officer <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Amy Bloebaum</B> is now CIO for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Henkel of America</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Henkel, based in D¿sseldorf <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>, is a manufacturer of knives and other consumer products.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15816"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:26:01 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15775 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15775 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=208 src="http://www2.coca-cola.com/ourcompany/img/main_photo_bio_ares.jpg" width=122 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.coca-cola.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Coca-Cola</B></A></B>&#8217;s CIO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jean-Michel Ares</B>&nbsp;(pictured at left) was made a senior vice president yesterday.&nbsp; Ares has served as CIO of the Atlanta-based beverage company since he joined the company in 2002.&nbsp; Prior to Coca-Cola, Ares was vice president and CIO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">GE Power systems</B>.&nbsp; He began his career with GE in 1996 in its Corporate Initiatives Group.&nbsp; Previously, he was a consultant with McKinsey &amp; Co.&nbsp; Ares holds bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in electrical engineering in addition to an MBA. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P><IMG height=135 src="http://www.transtasmanbusiness.com.au/images/balfour.gif" width=90 align=right> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15775"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:56:04 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15673 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15673 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B>Glendon Schuster</B> joined managed healthcare provider <B><A href="http://www.centene.com/" target=_blank><B>Centene</B></A></B> as vice president and CIO.&nbsp; He reports to Chairman and CEO <B>Michael F. Neidorff</B>. He comes to Centene from <B>Accenture</B>, where he had worked since 1993.</P> <P><B>Russ Rausch</B> will rejoin <B><A href="http://www.tradingtechnologies.com/" target=_blank><B>Trading Technologies International</B></A></B> as its EVP of global support and CIO on January 1, 2006.&nbsp; He&#8217;s been working for <B>Calyon Financial</B> as head of its electronic brokerage in North America.&nbsp; Rausch previously worked for Trading Technologies as its EVP of global support and services before moving over to Calyon Financial when Calyon began licensing software from Trading Technologies. </P> <P>Technology provider <B><A href="http://www.enamics.com/" target=_blank><B>Enamics</B></A></B> hired a former <B>Bristol-Myers Squibb</B> CIO as its EVP and chief customer officer. <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/041503/audit.html"><B>Jack Cooper</B></A></B> represents the voice of the Enamics customer in the areas of product development, solution delivery and sales.&nbsp; While at Bristol-Myers Squibb, which he left in 2002, Cooper led an ERP implementation. Prior to the pharmaceutical company, he was CIO of Seagram Company. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15673"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:19:45 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15616 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15616 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B><A href="http://www.invisalign.com/" target=_blank><B>Align Technology</B></A></B> found a replacement for <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11811"><B>Cecilia Claudio</B></A></B>, who left her post as CIO of the teeth straightening devices maker in September to join Mercury Interactive.&nbsp; The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company announced yesterday that it had hired <B><A href="http://investor.aligntech.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=181648&amp;" target=_blank><B>Michael Henry</B></A></B> as its vice president of IT and CIO.&nbsp; Henry reports to Thomas Prescott, Align&#8217;s president and CEO. He most recently worked for information services provider IHS as its vice president of global IT and information security.&nbsp; </P> <P>Furniture maker <B><A href="http://www.haworth.com/" target=_blank><B>Haworth</B></A></B> hired <B>Ann Harten</B> to succeed its Vice President of Global Information Services, Michael Moon, who is retiring.&nbsp; Harten joined the Holland, Mich.-based company from relocation services provider <B>Sirva</B>, where she served as SVP and CIO.&nbsp; The fact that Harten was hired as a VP rather than a CIO at Haworth even though she previously held the CIO title reminds me of a conversation I had with a recruiter a few months ago.&nbsp; The recruiter told me that a lot of companies are hiring IT executives into VP-level rather than CIO-level positions in order to give their new executives a promotion to shoot for. I don&#8217;t know that that&#8217;s the case at Haworth, but it is an interesting observation.&nbsp; Have any of you interviewed for jobs where the prospective employer wouldn&#8217;t hire you into a CIO position?&nbsp; Use the feedback form to share your&nbsp;experiences.</P> <P>Finally, <B>Javier Monzon</B> (there should be an accent over the second &#8220;o&#8221; in his last name, but I don&#8217;t know how to do that) e-mailed me from Argentina to let me know that he was made <B><A href="http://www.transalud.com.ar/" target=_blank><B>Transalud</B></A> S.A.</B>&#8217;s new IT manager.&nbsp; Transalud acquires, processes and validates transactions in real time for the healthcare industry.&nbsp; Thanks to Javier, I learned how to write IT manager in Spanish (&#8220;gerente de sistemas.&#8221;)</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15616"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:41:09 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15574 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15574 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Public CIO</I> <A href="http://www.public-cio.com/newsStory.php?id=2005.12.08-97509" target=_blank>reported</A> that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Curt Wolfe</B> plans to retire from his post as CIO of the state of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">North Dakota</B> at the end of this month. Wolfe&#8217;s deputy, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike Ressler</B>, will step in as CIO until a replacement is found. </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt">In North Carolina last week, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ramin Kouzehkanani</B> was appointed the new director of the city of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Durham&#8217;s Department of Technology Solutions</B>, according to <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><A href="http://www.public-cio.com/newsStory.php?id=2005.12.09-97533" target=_blank><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Public CIO</I></A></I>.&nbsp; Kouzehkanani most recently served as <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Sarasota, Florida</st1:place>&#8217;s CIO.&nbsp; Previously, he worked for ESIONWEB.COM as director of systems and processes and for DSA Group as VP and director of information systems.&nbsp; </P><IMG height=185 src="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/12/images/shel_waggemer_wide.jpg" width=200 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/12/08_waggener.shtml" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Shelton Waggener</B></A></B> (pictured at left) was promoted to associate vice chancellor for information technology and CIO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.berkeley.edu/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">UC Berkeley</B></A></B>. Waggener, who most recently served as director of central computing services as the university, succeeds <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/01/28_mccredie.shtml" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">John (&#8220;Jack&#8221;) McCredie</B></A></B>, who is retiring this month.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15574"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:31:39 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15521 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15521 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt">Earlier this week, <A href="http://liberum.twst.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>Liberum Research</STRONG></A> sent to me its latest research on the number of management changes that took place in November.&nbsp; Last month, 2,209 management changes took place across corporate boards, C-level executives and VPs&#8212;up from 2,059 in October.&nbsp; Hirings, firings, resignations, retirements, promotions and lateral moves constitute the kinds of management changes Liberum tracks.&nbsp; Of those 2,209 changes, 259 were CEOs and 17 were CIOs.&nbsp; In September and October, Liberum reported 10 and 13 CIO changes respectively.</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt">Liberum&#8217;s management change stats, which have shown management change on the rise for the past four months, are particularly interesting in light of an article I read in <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/business/08chief.html?emc=eta1" target=_blank>yesterday&#8217;s <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">New York Times</I></A> about changes taking place in executive suites across corporate America.&nbsp; The <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Times</I> reports that corporate boards are increasingly looking to hire CEOs with proven operating experience as opposed to celebrity CEOs.&nbsp; As evidence of such a trend, the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Times</I> points to HP&#8217;s appointment of <STRONG>Mark Hurd</STRONG> to replace <STRONG>Carly Fiorina</STRONG> and Disney&#8217;s selection of <STRONG>Robert Iger</STRONG> to succeed <STRONG>Michael Eisner</STRONG>, among others.&nbsp; <STRONG><A href="http://www.russellreynolds.com/2005/recruiter.asp" target=_blank><STRONG>Shawn Banerji</STRONG></A></STRONG>, a recruiter with <STRONG>Russell Reynolds</STRONG>, reminded me that this trend has been going on for several years now, since the corporate scandals of 2002. (The <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Times</I> should have consulted with Banerji before leaning on such a pass¿ngle!)</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt">But I wonder if this same trend away from the cult of personality in favor of more understated individuals with proven track records is taking place for CIOs?&nbsp; What do you think? Do IT executives even have their own stable of celebrity CIOs the way CEOs do?&nbsp; Who do you think these celebrity CIOs are? I can think of a few possibilities: <STRONG>FedEx&#8217;s Rob Carter</STRONG>, <STRONG>Tyco&#8217;s Dana Deasy</STRONG>, <STRONG>Campbell Soup&#8217;s Doreen Wright</STRONG>. But those individuals are more than just personality. They certainly have proven track records and know how to execute.&nbsp; Do you think there&#8217;s been a trend toward companies appointing celebrity CIOs that is on the wane or might wane in the future? &nbsp;Use the feedback mechanism to share your thoughts.&nbsp;&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15521"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:05:51 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15425 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15425 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt">A former <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">McDonald</B>&#8217;s CIO was named chairman and CEO of the generically named <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.techsol.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Technology Solutions Co.</B></A> earlier this week.&nbsp; Carl Dill</B> (profiled in this <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/041598/change.html">CIO story</A>), 60, had been serving as lead director of the Chicago-based technology solutions provider.&nbsp; He replaces Michael Gorsage who &#8220;resigned to pursue other business interests.&#8221;&nbsp; Dill was vice president and CIO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Time Warner</B> from 1998 until 2001.&nbsp; Prior to Time Warner, he worked for McDonald&#8217;s for 16 years, ending up as the fast food chain&#8217;s senior vice president and McCIO.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jack Baugh</B> recently joined healthcare cost management company <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.ncnelink.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">National Care Network</B></A></B> as its CIO.&nbsp; &nbsp;Baugh has worked for Citigroup, United Insurance Companies and Hospital Corporateion of American in executive level IT roles.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">In October, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.gibraltar1.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gibraltar Industries</B></A></B> hired <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">David</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">McCartney</B> as its vice president of information services.&nbsp; McCartney, 56, is a member of the materials manufacturer&#8217;s Corporate Executive Council and reports to Gibraltar President and COO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Henning</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Kornbrekke</B>.&nbsp; Most recently, McCartney consulted for a $300-million consumer goods company where he planned and managed supply chain execution and operational improvements.&nbsp; Prior to his consulting gig, McCartney worked for EMC and Bausch &amp; Lomb. At the eye care company, he held several director-level positions in charge of global supply chain systems, global strategy, operations, IT, and system development and manufacturing.&nbsp; He began his career with Andersen Consulting.</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15425"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:21:56 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15258 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15258 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=206 src="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/exec/bio_scott.jpg" width=147 align=left> <P><B>Microsoft</B> is supposedly making some big announcement later today that it has named a former GE CIO, <B><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/stuartsc/default.mspx" target=_blank><B>Stuart Scott</B></A></B> (pictured at left), corporate vice president and CIO.&nbsp; The thing is, Scott has been on Bill Gates&#8217; payroll since July, so I&#8217;m not quite sure what the big deal is.&nbsp; </P><IMG height=183 src="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/exec/bio_markezich.jpg" width=147 align=right> <P>It could be that Scott shares the CIO role with <B><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ronma/default.mspx" target=_blank><B>Ron Markezich</B></A></B> (pictured at right), Microsoft&#8217;s vice president of managed solutions and CIO.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know of many companies with more than one CIO, so Microsoft&#8217;s hiring of another CIO is something of a novelty.&nbsp; <B><B>Intel</B></B> has two&nbsp;CIOs: John Johnson and Stacy Smith. <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/021500/harley.html" target=_blank><B>Harley-Davidson</B></A></B> (at least back in 2000) employed three individuals who all shared the title of &#8220;director of IS/CIO.&#8221;&nbsp; The feeling at the motorcycle manufacturer was that the CIO role was too big for one person to handle, so it meted out responsibility for IT to three people, with one person in charge of &nbsp;the systems involved with manufacturing, another person responsible for the systems that support sales, marketing and customer service, and the third individual responsible for internal corporate systems like finance and HR.&nbsp; &nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15258"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:08:25 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15231 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15231 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=165 src="http://www.digitalhollywood.com/%231Photos/Ralph_Terkowitz.jpg" width=131 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.apus.edu/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">American Public Education</B></A></B> named the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Washington Post</B>&#8217;s former CIO, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ralph Terkowitz</B> (pictured at left),to its board of directors.&nbsp;&nbsp;Terkowitz currently serves as a general partner at private equity firm <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ABS Capital Partners</B> where he focuses on investments in media and communications companies.&nbsp; Prior to ABS, while at The Post, Terkowtiz founded WashingtonPost.com and served as its CEO. He also serves as a director of TRUSTe, an independent authority on trust and privacy practices, and sits on several other advisory boards.</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15231"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:03:13 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15156 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15156 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>I have news of several promotions to share : </P><IMG height=130 src="http://media.espn.com/MediaZone/bios/executives/EVPphotos/PaganoC.jpg" width=88 align=left> <P><B>Chuck Pagano</B>&nbsp;(pictured at left) was promoted from senior vice president of technology, engineering and operations to executive vice president of technology at <B><A href="http://www.espn.com/" target=_blank><B>ESPN</B></A></B> in early October. (A PR person with the network informed me of the news earlier this week.)&nbsp; His promotion comes amidst a reorganization of ESPN&#8217;s business functions and executive management.&nbsp; Pagano reports to <B>George Bodenheimer</B>, who&#8217;s president of ESPN and ABC sports and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks.&nbsp; Pagano joined ESPN prior to its debut on September 7, 1979 and was a key driver in the creation of ESPN&#8217;s Digital Center television production facility.</P><IMG height=130 src="http://media.espn.com/MediaZone/bios/executives/EVPphotos/CushingP.jpg" width=86 align=right> <P>Also at ESPN, <B>Paul Cushing</B> (pictured at right) was promoted to senior vice president of management information technology, and <B>Aaron LaBerge</B> assumed the newly created position of vice president of technology.&nbsp; Cushing oversees all of ESPN&#8217;s corporate systems infrastructure, software project management and telecom.&nbsp; He joined ESPN in 1994. LaBerge is responsible for all technology operations in support of ESPN&#8217;s unit businesses as well as technology research and development. &nbsp;He joined ESPN from Disney.&nbsp; </P><IMG height=109 src="http://www.unicco.com/img/mgnt_peterson.jpg" width=81 align=left> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15156"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:33:29 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15005 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15005 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Today&#8217;s entry is all about CIOs who will soon be leaving or have recently left their jobs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.nasdaq.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Nasdaq</B></A></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">&#8217;s CIO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.nasdaq.com/newsroom/news/pr2005/ne_section05_115.stm" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Steve Randich</B></A></B> accepted a job with <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Citigroup</B> as CIO of its corporate and investment banking division.&nbsp; His last day with Nasdaq will be December 9.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Nasdaq&#8217;s Senior Vice President <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Anna</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ewing</B> will assume Randich&#8217;s responsibilities when he leaves.&nbsp; Randich joined the securities market in 2000 as CTO and was named CIO the following year.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">The <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.epa.gov/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Environmental Protection Agency</B></A></B> is also losing its CIO, according to <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><A href="http://www.fcw.com/article91555-11-29-05-Web" target=_blank><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Federal Computer Week</I></A></I>. <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Kim</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Nelson</B> is leaving her post after the new year to join <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Microsoft</B> in the newly created position of executive director of e-government.</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=15005"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:56:50 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14872 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14872 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Three other CIO announcements hit the wires last week before Thanksgiving.&nbsp; Among them... </P> <P><B><A href="http://www.petco.com/" target=_blank><B>Petco</B></A></B> elected <B><A href="http://www.safeway.com/" target=_blank><B>Safeway</B></A></B>&#8217;s SVP and CIO <B>David Ching</B> to its board of directors.&nbsp; Ching, 52, has been with Safeway since 1994.&nbsp; Prior to that, he was general manager of <B>British American Consulting Group</B>&#8217;s North American region.&nbsp; </P><IMG height=200 src="http://www.businessobjectsevents.com/userconference04/images/twila_day.jpg" width=160 align=left> <P>Foodservice company <B><A href="http://www.sysco.com/" target=_blank><B>Sysco</B></A></B> appointed its SVP and CIO <B><A href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=86717&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=785317&amp;highlight=" target=_blank><B>Kirk Drummond</B></A></B> SVP and treasurer.&nbsp; He moves into his new post on December 1.&nbsp; Drummond was named SVP and CIO in January of this year after serving as VP and CIO since 2000.&nbsp;&nbsp; He is no stranger to the world of high finance: He joined Sysco1986 as controller of its subsidiary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was transferred to Sysco&#8217;s operation in Atlanta as CFO and controller in 1989, and three years later he took on the title of VP of finance.&nbsp; Succeeding Drummond as vice president and CIO is <A href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=86717&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=785318&amp;highlight=" target=_blank><STRONG>Twila Day</STRONG></A> (pictured at right).&nbsp; She has served as VP of IT since July and has been with Sysco since 1992, when she joined the company as a senior programmer analyst.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14872"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:05:21 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14833 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14833 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>I thought this week was going to be a slow one for CIO announcements on account of turkey day.&nbsp; I was so wrong.&nbsp; It seems plenty of companies are scrambling to spread the word about their new CIO hires before eating themselves into a stupor, which is precisely what I intend to do tomorrow.&nbsp; &nbsp;In fact, three companies announced new CIOs yesterday.</P><IMG height=205 src="http://www.bestsoftware.com/company/images/alan_boehme_l.jpg" width=159 align=left> <P><B><A href="http://www.juniper.net/" target=_blank><B>Juniper Networks</B></A></B> hired <B><A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2002/mover1372.html" target=_blank><B>Alan Boehme</B></A></B> (pronounced &#8220;Bame,&#8221; pictured at left)&nbsp;as its new CIO.&nbsp; He succeeds <B>Kim</B> <B>Perdikou</B>, who was appointed vice president and associated general manager of Juniper&#8217;s infrastructure business team.&nbsp; He reports to the CFO and EVP of business operations <B>Bob Dykes</B>. Boehme joins Juniper Networks from <B>Best Software</B>, where, as CIO, he oversaw the company&#8217;s IT transformation as it organized seven independent business units into one. Boehme is a product of the <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/020105/tl_move.html">CIO factory</A> that is General Electric: Prior to Best Software, he was the e-Technology/e-Business CIO at General Electric&#8217;s Power Systems business. He also held senior management positions at DHL Worldwide Express and Flying Tiger, which was later acquired by Fedex.</P> <P><B>Claudio Silvestri</B> will join business intelligence provider <B><A href="http://www.cognos.com/" target=_blank><B>Cognos</B></A></B> on December 5 as its new CIO.&nbsp; He most recently worked for Cognos&#8217;s competition&#8212;<B><A href="http://www.businessobjects.com/" target=_blank><B>Business Objects</B></A></B>&#8212;as its group vice president of worldwide information technology.&nbsp; Previously he managed Microsoft Canada&#8217;s small business and channel organization and served as vice president of CRM eBusiness for Compaq Canada.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14833"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:58:30 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14799 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14799 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>A reader emailed me yesterday to ask if I knew whether <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/101503/shrinking.html"><B>Malcolm Fields</B></A></B> had left his post as CIO of office furniture manufacturer <B><A href="http://www.hnicorp.com/index2.htm" target=_blank><B>HNI</B></A></B> (formerly Hon Industries) and had been replaced by a <B>John Kramer</B>.&nbsp; I hadn&#8217;t heard anything about Malcolm Fields leaving or a John Kramer joining HNI or The Hon Company (HNI&#8217;s largest operating company), but I placed a call to HNI&#8217;s investor relations department yesterday afternoon to find out whether this tidbit on Fields is fact or fiction.&nbsp; No word yet from HNI on Fields or Kramer, but a quick check of HNI&#8217;s web site shows that one <B><A href="http://www.hnicorp.com/who/management/douglas_jones.htm" target=_blank><B>Douglas</B><B> L. Jones</B></A></B> is CIO of HNI.&nbsp; If anyone has any info about Fields or Kramer, please e-mail me.&nbsp; (Fields has been featured in a few <I>CIO</I> stories, among them, one on <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/030103/hs_survivor.html">surviving major management changes</A>.)</P><IMG src="/images2005/movers_lassiter.jpg" align=left> <P>At <B><A href="http://www.bcbsnc.com/" target=_blank><B>Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina</B></A></B> (BCBSNC), <B>George Lassiter</B> (pictured at left) was recently named vice president of IS operational services.&nbsp; No stranger to the BCBS network, Lassiter most recently worked for <B>Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan</B> as its director of data center and hosting services.&nbsp; In his new position, he is responsible for managing BCBSNC&#8217;s two data centers, assuring the availability and reliability of the company&#8217;s technology infrastructure and applications, and overseeing disaster planning for IT.&nbsp; </P> <P>In other healthcare/pharma news, drug distribution provider <B><A href="http://www.drugmax.com/" target=_blank><B>DrugMax</B></A></B> yesterday announced several new hires in senior management including the appointment of <B>Thomas Ferranti</B> as its vice president of information technology. Ferranti most recently served as executive vice president and COO of <B>SourceOne</B>, a provider of fulfillment, document management and marketing services for the financial services industry.&nbsp; As SourceOne&#8217;s COO, he developed and executed a plan to control costs, improve customer satisfaction and boost sales.&nbsp; Previously, as SourceOne&#8217;s VP and CIO, he managed a 50-person IT staff, the company&#8217;s client-server architecture (how late 80s/early 90s) and call center.&nbsp; Seems odd that Ferranti would take an IT position after having served as COO, but maybe he realized while in operations that he&#8217;s really an IT guy at heart. He is in fact a certified network engineer and earned his degree in computer science.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14799"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:37:12 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14718 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14718 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">We didn&#8217;t miss much while I was on vacation Thursday and Friday of last week.&nbsp; In fact, we didn&#8217;t miss anything.&nbsp; This morning, upon trolling for CIO announcements that I might have missed late last week, I only came up with the following announcements, which were released or sent to me this morning: </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14718"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:36:55 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14545 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14545 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>I have a couple of board appointments to announce today as well as a correction to an announcement I posted in September.&nbsp; First, news from Computer Associates&#8217; and BigFix&#8217;s board rooms:</P><IMG height=192 src="/executivepolicyforum/images/lofgren.jpg" width=155 align=left> <P><B><A href="http://ca.com/" target=_blank><B>Computer Associates</B></A></B> (aka CA) appointed <B><A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2002/mover1405.html?TYPE=lastname" target=_blank><B>Christopher Lofgren</B></A></B> (pictured at left) to its board of directors.&nbsp; And boy, is CA lucky to have him.&nbsp; For those of you who&#8217;ve never heard of Chris Lofgren, he was one of the first CIOs to become CEO of a non-technology company.&nbsp; He currently serves as president and CEO of <B><A href="http://www.schneider.com/" target=_blank><B>Schneider National</B></A></B>, a $3.2 billion freight transportation provider, and he&#8217;s only 46 years old!&nbsp; He was named CEO of the company in 2002 when Donald Schneider stepped down from that position (Schneider remains chairman of the board).&nbsp; Previously, Lofgren was Schneider National&#8217;s COO from 2000 until his appointment to CEO; CIO from 1999 to 2000; and CTO from 1996 to 1999.&nbsp; He joined the company in 1994 as vice president of engineering and systems. Before Schneider, Lofgren worked for Symantec, Motorola and CAPS Logistics.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><IMG height=100 src="http://www.bea.com/content/images/solutions/resource/rhonda_headshot_wht.gif" width=89 align=right> <P><STRONG>Rhonda Hocker </STRONG>(pictured at right), the CIO of <B><A href="http://www.bea.com/" target=_blank><B>BEA Systems</B></A></B>, was elected to <B><A href="http://www.bigfix.com/" target=_blank><B>BigFix</B></A></B>&#8217;s board of directors. BigFix provides software that discovers, analyzes changes and maintains security and software configurations.&nbsp; This is Hocker&#8217;s second board appointment in two months.&nbsp; In September, she <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11965" target=_blank>took a seat</A> on <B>Valaran</B>&#8217;s board.&nbsp; &nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14545"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:29:02 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14450 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14450 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B>William J. Lutz</B> joined <B><A href="http://www.orchid.com/" target=_blank><B>Orchid Cellmark</B></A></B> today as its vice president of information technology.&nbsp; He comes to the Princeton, N.J.-based provider of identity DNA testing services from <B>Genencor International</B>, where he most recently served as CIO.&nbsp; At Orchid Cellmark, Lutz, 56, will lead a business process integration and automation initiatives as well as the deployment of new enterprise systems.&nbsp;&nbsp; Prior to joining Genencor in 1997, he worked for Bausch and Lomb for 17 years.&nbsp; </P> <P><I>The Business Journal</I> of Portland, Ore. <A href="http://www.bizjournals.com/industries/high_tech/networking/2005/11/07/portland_daily29.html" target=_blank>reported</A> last Friday that <B><A href="http://www.tektronix.com/" target=_blank><B>Tektronix</B></A></B> hired <B>Rob</B> <B>Blaskowsky</B> as its new vice president and CIO.&nbsp; He most recently worked for <B><A href="http://www.serena.com/" target=_blank><B>Serena Software</B></A></B> as its VP and CIO.&nbsp; </P> <P>Last month, clinical software company <B><A href="http://www.etrials.com/" target=_blank><B>etrials Worldwide</B></A></B> appointed <B>Jan Wilson</B> to the position of vice president and CIO.&nbsp; Prior to etrials, she possessed the following unwieldy title: technical solutions manager, delivery project executive and program manager for <B>IBM</B>&#8217;s global engagement and production outsourcing services.&nbsp; Is there enough room on a business card for all that?&nbsp; According to etrails&#8217; press release announcing her hire, Wilson &#8220;successfully led complex and global IT initiatives for Fortune 500 companies and implemented multiple, emerging technologies to IBM&#8217;s worldwide customers including on-demand infrastructure, global Web-hosting, help desk, mainframe and workstation solutions.&#8221; How much do you want to bet she strikes an outsourcing deal for etrials with IBM?&nbsp; That is, of course, provided etrials wasn&#8217;t already an IBM customer prior to hiring her.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14450"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 03:59:35 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14374 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14374 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=141 src="http://media.bonnint.net/wgms/0/54/5416.jpg" width=104 align=left> <P><EM>Government Computer News</EM> <A href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37539-1.html" target=_blank>reports</A> that <A href="http://www.e-gov.com/events/2004/gsf/bio.asp?speakerID=1279" target=_blank><STRONG>Rosita Parkes</STRONG></A> (pictured at left) will be retiring from the U.S. Energy Department as CIO on January 3, 2006.&nbsp; The Department has not yet announced who will succeed Parkes, who was a public servant for three decades.&nbsp; <STRONG>Gordon Errington</STRONG> currently serves as deputy CIO.&nbsp; Parkes told <EM>GCN</EM> that she&#8217;s interested in teaching bilingual education once she leaves the federal government.&nbsp; For more on her tenure at the Energy Department, read <EM>GCN</EM>&#8217;s <A href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37539-1.html" target=_blank>article</A>.&nbsp; </P> <P><STRONG><A href="http://www.northerntrust.com/pws/jsp/display.jsp?XML=0409/63913851_3892.xml&amp;TYPE=pressreleasedetail&amp;prDetail=/100377511_3048.xml" target=_blank><STRONG>Nirup Krishnamurthy</STRONG></A></STRONG> has made the transition from one industry to another.&nbsp; The former CIO of <STRONG>United Airlines</STRONG> was named executive vice president and CTO of asset management services provider <STRONG><A href="http://www.northerntrust.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>Northern Trust</STRONG></A></STRONG>.&nbsp; Krishnamurthy worked for United for 15 years, having begun his tenure in the finance department in 1990.&nbsp; At the time he developed optimization models for airline scheduling, operations planning and aircraft maintenance. In 2003, he was promoted to CIO after having served as vice president of information services, managing director of applications development and manager of applications development. At Northern Trust, Krishnamurthy reports President of Worldwide Operations and Technology&nbsp;<STRONG>Timothy Theriault</STRONG>. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14374"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:40:18 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14333 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14333 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>A former CIO of <STRONG>Southwest Airlines</STRONG> accepted a job with <STRONG><A href="http://www.hyperformix.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>HyPerformix</STRONG></A></STRONG> as its vice president of software development.&nbsp; <STRONG>Ross Holman</STRONG> became a customer of the application performance monitoring provider while working for Southwest.&nbsp; (There&#8217;s one reason why you should be good to your vendors: They may be your future employer.)&nbsp; Holman most recently founded and served as president of <STRONG>Palomino Professional Services</STRONG>.&nbsp; Prior to Southwest, he was CIO of PageNet, vice president of systems development for Sprint, and he worked as a consultant with both Price Waterhouse and Andersen Consulting.</P> <P><STRONG>Philip Freeborn</STRONG> will assume the role of managing director and CIO of <STRONG><A href="http://www.barcap.com/cgi-bin/pressreleases/public/newsView4.pl?item=2005110901" target=_blank><STRONG>Barclays</STRONG> <STRONG>Capital</STRONG></A></STRONG> in January.&nbsp; In that position, Freeborn will be responsible for IT globally at the investment banking division of Barclay&#8217;s Bank, and he will report to <STRONG>Rich</STRONG> <STRONG>Ricci</STRONG>, Barclays Capital&#8217;s COO.&nbsp; In being named managing director and CIO, Freeborn assumes the position vacated this past summer by <STRONG>Kevin O&#8217;Reilly</STRONG>.&nbsp; Freeborn spent the past 12 years working for <STRONG>UBS</STRONG>, most recently as its global CIO.&nbsp; <A href="http://www.securitiesindustry.com/article.cfm?articleid=16429&amp;pg=bnews" target=_blank>This article</A> talks about some of the IT projects going on at Barclays Capital and notes that the job Freeborn landed was a coveted one in the financial services industry.&nbsp; </P> <P><STRONG>Tim Patneaude</STRONG> joined <STRONG><A href="http://www.wausaufs.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>Wausaw Financial Systems</STRONG></A></STRONG> as CIO and VP of Customer Care.&nbsp; His top priorities include aligning the&nbsp;financial systems and services provider&#8217;s security policies with industry standards, such as ISO 17799 and Cobit, and implementing many aspects of the IT Infrastructure Library process framework.&nbsp; He comes to the Mosinee, Wisc.-based company from <STRONG>Metavante</STRONG> where he was vice president of strategic infrastructure management.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14333"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:35:04 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14313 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14313 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)A friendly reader pointed out that I missed <STRONG>John Polizzi</STRONG>&#8217;s departure from <STRONG>Blockbuster</STRONG> last month.&nbsp; Polizzi had been the video and DVD rental chain&#8217;s SVP and CIO and had helped the company move into the online DVD and video game rental business to compete with Netflix.&nbsp; Polizzi has since <A href="http://news.morningstar.com/news/BW/M11/D02/20051102006107.html" target=_blank>landed</A> at <STRONG><A href="http://www.bjs.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>BJ&#8217;s Wholesale Club</STRONG></A></STRONG> in Natick, Mass. as its SVP and CIO.&nbsp; He reports to <STRONG>Frank</STRONG> <STRONG>Forward</STRONG>, BJ&#8217;s chief administrative officer, and he succeeds <STRONG>Roland LaFerriere</STRONG>, who&#8217;s retiring from BJ&#8217;s in December after a three decade career.&nbsp; <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14313"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:23:34 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14174 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14174 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<DIV align=left><STRONG>Yen-Ping Shan</STRONG> will start a new job at <STRONG><A href="http://www.reyrey.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>The Reynolds and Reynolds Company</STRONG></A></STRONG> as CIO and senior vice president of engineering and development on November 30. He will lead the Dayton, Ohio-based company&#8217;s product engineering, development and IT organizations. Shan joins Reynolds from <STRONG><A href="http://www.adp.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>Automatic Data Processing</STRONG></A></STRONG> (ADP), where he was vice president of product development for the Employer Services Division.&nbsp; Shan received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University</DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left>&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Carl D. Reis</B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"> got the green flag at <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.grandprixspeedways.com/home/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Grand Prix Speedways</B></A></B>.&nbsp; He recently joined the operator of indoor kart racing tracks as CIO.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Before joining Grand Prix Speedways, Reis was president of Multi Media Productions, an events production company, and for the last 10 years, he was a technology and business process consultant serving organizations in the St. Louis, Mo.-area.</SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14174"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:25:34 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14140 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14140 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>TGIF!</P> <P><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12911">Last month</A> I reported that <B>Elinor MacKinnon</B> had been promoted to CIO at <B><A href="http://www.mylifepath.com/" target=_blank><B>Blue Shield of California</B></A></B>, thanks to a tip from a reader.&nbsp; Blue Shield put out a press release yesterday announcing MacKinnon&#8217;s promotion, so I have more info on her background.&nbsp; She joined Blue Shield in 2004 as vice president of application services.&nbsp; During her short tenure, she helped develop the organization&#8217;s three-year IT strategy and contributed to the upcoming launch of a portal that will help insurance brokers serve their clients.&nbsp; Prior to Blue Shield, MacKinnon served as interim CIO at flu-vaccine manufacturer Chiron.&nbsp; She reports to Blue Shield&#8217;s CFO <B>Heidi Kunz</B>. </P> <P><B>Beth Nordin</B> joined <B><A href="http://www.chsinc.com/" target=_blank><B>CHS</B></A></B>, a diversified energy, grains and food company, as its vice president of information technology.&nbsp; She comes to the Inver Grove Heights, Minn.-based company from <B>Capella Education</B>, where she was vice president of operations.&nbsp; Prior to Capella, Nordin worked for Pearson Education as its senior vice president of information technology and CIO. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14140"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:50:09 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14113 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14113 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Since it&#8217;s a slow news day today on the CIO announcements front, I&#8217;m going to share <A href="http://liberum.twst.com/" target=_blank>Liberum Research</A>&#8217;s latest data on management changes that occurred in October, which appeared in my inbox yesterday.&nbsp; </P> <P>But before I present the stats, I have an update on yesterday&#8217;s posting. I have confirmed that <STRONG>Mike Altendorf</STRONG> no longer works for <STRONG>Ace Hardware</STRONG>.&nbsp; According to a company spokesperson, he left Ace in June.&nbsp; I do not know why he left, but apparently, Ace was no longer the place for him (I couldn&#8217;t help myself with that one.)&nbsp; Mike, if you&#8217;re&nbsp;out there, please get in touch with us at <EM>CIO</EM>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You&#8217;re a smart guy, and we&#8217;d like to stay in touch with you. </P> <P>And now for the stats...</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14113"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:38:29 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14049 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14049 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><I>Government Computer News</I> <A href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37444-1.html" target=_blank>reports</A> that the <B>U.S.</B><B> Department of Defense</B> <A href="http://www.dod.gov/">http://www.dod.gov/</A> hired a new CIO.&nbsp; <B>John G. Grimes</B> most recently worked for Raytheon as its vice president of intelligence and information systems.&nbsp; </P> <P><B>Michael Elmore</B> (pictured on the left) joined <B><A href="http://www.acehardware.com/" target=_blank><B>Ace Hardware</B></A></B> as its vice president of information technology.&nbsp; No word yet on whether Ace&#8217;s previous VP of IT, <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/021504/customers.html"><B>Mike Altendorf</B></A></B> (pictured on the right), is still with the company.</P><IMG height=115 src="/images2005/movers_altendorf.jpg" width=75 align=right> <IMG height=102 src="/images2005/movers_elmore.jpg" width=75 align=right> <P>Elmore, 44, will be focusing on the ongoing rollout of Ace&#8217;s common technology platform and the enhancement of its supply chain systems.&nbsp; He most recently served as CIO for <B><A href="http://www.pepboys.com/" target=_blank><B>Pep Boys</B></A></B>, an aftermarket auto parts retailer.&nbsp; He previously worked for Lowes for 10 years, and for Wal-Mart and J.B. Hunt. <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/121504/cio_abroad.html"><B>Paul Ingevaldson</B></A> </B>(pictured at left, below) retired as Ace Hardware&#8217;s CIO last year. </P><IMG height=148 src="/images2005/movers_ingevaldson.jpg" width=125 align=left> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=14049"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 02 Nov 2005 03:26:01 EST Updates on two CIOs?CID=13925 Updates on two CIOs?CID=13925 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Remember that CIO I wrote about on <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13445">October 21</A>, <STRONG>Steven Brigham</STRONG>?&nbsp; He was the CIO of boot-maker <STRONG>Timberland</STRONG>.&nbsp; Today he officially joins <STRONG><A href="http://www.brookstone.com/"><STRONG>Brookstone</STRONG></A></STRONG>, the company that has given us <A href="http://www.brookstone.com/shop/product.asp?product_code=501593&amp;world_code=1&amp;category_code=27&amp;subcategory_code=437&amp;search_type=subcategory&amp;cm_re=C*Massage*Massage%20Chairs&amp;prodtemp=t2" target=_blank>high tech massage chairs</A> and talking meat thermometers (and who doesn&#8217;t need a <A href="http://www.brookstone.com/shop/product.asp?product_code=330654&amp;world_code=3&amp;category_code=33&amp;subcategory_code=465&amp;quickshop_code=0&amp;search_type=subcategory&amp;cm_re=L*T*NA&amp;prodtemp=t2" target=_blank>talking meat thermometer</A>? ; ) ), as its CIO and head of distribution and logistics.&nbsp; Best wishes to you, Steven, in your new role.</P> <P>Remember that other CIO I also wrote about <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13623">last week</A>, <B><A href="http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/goldBook/showItem.jhtml?itemID=600003"><B>Richard Rzasa</B></A></B>?&nbsp; A PR person for <B>TD Waterhouse</B> confirmed for me today that he&#8217;s still working for the brokerage as CIO but will not be with <B>TD Ameritrade</B> once the Ameritrade&#8217;s acquisition of TD closes, which is expected to happen in January 2006.&nbsp; </P> <P><I>The Miami Herald</I> <A href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13046984.htm" target=_blank>reports</A> today that one-time <B>Health Choice Network</B> CIO <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/071504/health.html"><B>Kevin Kearns</B></A></B> has been appointed president and COO of the organization. </P> <p><a href="Updates on two CIOs?CID=13925"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:49:45 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13873 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13873 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Two weeks from today <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.caiso.com/docs/2005/10/27/200510271523333261.pdf" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Stephen Berberich</B></A></B> joins the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.caiso.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">California</B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Independent System Operator</B></A></B> (ISO), the non-profit which operates California&#8217;s wholesale electrical grid, as vice president and CIO. He most recently worked for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">CapGemini</B> as a vice president of business development.&nbsp; Prior to CapGemini, Berberich worked for Texas Utilities for six years in different management positions, including vice president of information technology.&nbsp; He has also worked for OHA Financial, Anderson Consulting and the First National Bank of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Tulsa</st1:City>, OK.&nbsp; </P><IMG height=349 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/050103_private_jarrett.jpg" width=150 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">National Association of State Chief Information Officers</B> (<A href="http://www.nascio.org/" target=_blank>NASCIO</A>) elected <A href="http://www.nascio.org/pressReleases/051027.cfm" target=_blank>new leadership</A> for the 2005-2006 year.&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=17&amp;id=93289" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Matt Miszewski</B></A></B>, CIO for the state of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.wisconsin.gov/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Wisconsin</B></A></B>, was elected president of the Lexington, Ky.-based membership organization.&nbsp; Miszewski succeeds <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/050103/role_deleware.html"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Tom Jarrett</B></A></B>&nbsp; (pictured at left), <st1:place w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/081505/staffing.html"><st1:place w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Delaware</B></st1:place>&#8217;s CIO</A></B></st1:place>, in the presidential post.&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Michigan</B>&#8217;s CIO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/96746" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Teri Takai</B></A></B> was named vice president, and <st1:State w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Nevada</B></st1:State>&#8217;s CIO, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://gov.state.nv.us/bio_tsavageX.htm" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Terry Savage</B></A></B>, was appointed treasurer and secretary.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13873"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:34:11 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13807 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13807 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13445" target=_blank>Last week</A>, a reader tipped me off about a new IT exec at <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="https://www.bcbsri.com/BCBSRIWeb/index.jsp" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Blue Cross &amp; Blue Shield of Rhode Island</B></A></B> (BCBS of RI.)&nbsp; I finally have some information about this person.&nbsp; <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Everett J. Sutherland</B> is the new vice president of information technology services.&nbsp; He&#8217;s responsible for developing, planning, managing and implementing all business process and information service activities for the health insurance provider.&nbsp; He most recently worked for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LSI Market Intelligence</B> as CTO.&nbsp; In that position, he updated LSI&#8217;s technology platform from legacy systems to web-based systems.&nbsp; Sutherland, an officer in the U.S. Army, earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree in mechanical engineering from West Point and his master&#8217;s degree in engineering management from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">George</st1:PlaceName> Washington University.&nbsp; <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Cam Henderson</B> officially joined <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://%20www.portlandgeneral.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Portland General Electric</B></A></B> as CIO today.&nbsp; He has held CIO positions for 13 years, most recently with Stockamp &amp; Associates and Willamette Industries.&nbsp; <st1:City w:st="on">Henderson</st1:City> is a CPA.&nbsp; He earned his MBA from the University of Texas at <st1:City w:st="on">Austin</st1:City>. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13807"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:29:16 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13677 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13677 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Daniel Mayleben</B> will join <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.apog.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Apogee Enterprises</B></A></B>, a developer of glass products and services, as its CIO on October 31.&nbsp; Mayleben, 44, most recently served as CFO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">HighJump Software</B>&#8212;a position he had held since 2003. Prior to HighJump, from 2000 to 2003, he was CFO at business planning software provider Adaytum.&nbsp; He also worked for Honeywell for six years in various financial management positions. </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ken Brame</B>, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.autozone.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">AutoZone</B></A></B>&#8217;s CIO, was appointed chairman of the Retail Industry Leaders Association&#8217;s (<A href="http://www.retail-leaders.org/new/index.aspx" target=_blank>RILA</A>) <A href="http://www.retail-leaders.org/new/rlCouncils.aspx?section=COUNNT" target=_blank>Technology Leaders Council</A>.&nbsp; Another Ken, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ken Kaiser</B>, was elected vice chairman of RILA&#8217;s Technology Leaders Council.&nbsp; Kaiser is vice president of corporate systems development at <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.target.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Target</B></A></B>. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13677"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:27:12 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13623 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13623 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B><A href="http://www.wellpoint.com/" target=_blank><B>WellPoint</B></A></B> <A href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=130104&amp;p=irol-newsArticle_general&amp;t=Regular&amp;id=772850&amp;" target=_blank>announced</A> that its EVP and CIO, <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/100104/manage.html"><B>Ron Ponder</B></A></B>, will be leaving the health insurance company based in Indianapolis at the end of the year.&nbsp; His resignation comes as the company restructures and merges with <B><A href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=130104&amp;p=irol-newsArticle_general&amp;t=Regular&amp;id=761487&amp;" target=_blank><B>WellChoice</B></A></B>.&nbsp; On November 1, <B>Mark Boxer</B> will become EVP of technology and operations and CIO.&nbsp; He will report to the&nbsp;CEO, <B>Larry Glasscock</B>.&nbsp; Boxer currently leads consumer-driven health plans, enterprise services, e-business, AdminaStar Federal and United Government Services for Wellpoint.&nbsp; He will retain responsibility for e-business and enterprise operations in his new position.&nbsp; In a press release announcing Ponder&#8217;s imminent departure from the company, Glasscock acknowledged the &#8220;instrumental&#8221; role Ponder played in the company&#8217;s growth, success and strategy.&nbsp; Ponder is on <I>CIO</I>&#8217;s Board of Advisors.</P> <P>Speaking of fallout from M&amp;A activity, <B>Ameritrade</B> announced earlier this week that its recently appointed CIO <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11741"><B>Jerry Bartlett</B></A></B> would continue in his position once the Omaha, Neb.-based brokerage firm completes its acquisition of TD Waterhouse, which was announced last June.&nbsp; Not sure yet what this means for TD Waterhouse&#8217;s CIO, <A href="http://www.forbes.com/personaltech/2005/04/21/cx_de_0421toyboxrzasa.html" target=_blank>Richard Rzasa</A>, or if he&#8217;s even still working for the company.&nbsp; He certainly seems to have the&nbsp;<A href="http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/goldBook/showItem.jhtml?itemID=600003" target=_blank>credentials</A> to be snatched up by another organization.&nbsp; I e-mailed the corporate communications team at TD Waterhouse to find out. </P> <P><STRONG><A href="http://www.fedsources.com/email/church_bio.html" target=_blank><STRONG>Charles Church</STRONG></A></STRONG> was appointed CIO of the <B><A href="http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/" target=_blank><B>Department of Homeland Security</B></A></B>&#8217;s <A href="http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=51" target=_blank>Preparedness Directorate</A> on October 18.&nbsp; He is also CIO of the DHS&#8217;s Information Analysis and Infrastructure <A href="http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=52" target=_blank>Protection Directorate</A>.&nbsp; He e-mailed to me a bulleted list of his accomplishments at DHS that include</P> <UL> <LI>Creating and deploying a two-way collaborative communication network that allows DHS to work with state, local and &#8220;tribal&#8221; [his word] officials in real time on issues of national security.</LI> <LI>Developing a database for storing information on and assessing the security vulnerability of dams, bridges, buildings and power plants.&nbsp;&nbsp; </LI></UL> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13623"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:13:33 EST ?CID=13565 ?CID=13565 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>The <B>Donald</B> (<B>Trump</B>, that is, pictured below) hired a CIO.&nbsp; His company, <B><A href="http://www.trumpcasinos.com/" target=_blank><B>Trump Entertainment Resorts</B></A></B>, announced yesterday that it named <B>Virginia</B> <B>McDowell</B> EVP and CIO. As you might have expected, she&#8217;s not your average CIO.&nbsp; McDowell most recently worked for <B>Argosy Gaming Company</B> (which was acquired by <A href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=120420&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=763556&amp;highlight=" target=_blank>Penn National Gaming</A> earlier this month) as its senior vice president of operations, having been appointed to that position after serving as its VP of marketing and sales. (Talk about a business-oriented CIO.) Prior to Argosy, she was VP of business development at Tropicana Casino and Resort, having joined that organization in 1984.&nbsp; She graduated from Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know if she has any IT background but I do hope to find out.&nbsp; </P><IMG height=250 src="http://espn.go.com/media/pg2/2005/0314/photo/wb/w_trump_vt.jpg" width=180 align=left border=0> <P><B>Joe Wong</B> joined <B><A href="http://www.harcourtassessment.com/" target=_blank><B>Harcourt Assessment</B></A></B>, a developer and publisher of standardized tests, as its VP of information services.&nbsp; His appointment comes amidst a restructuring of the company&#8217;s IT department aimed at better aligning IT with corporate objectives.&nbsp; As VP of information services, which is a new position inside the company, Wong reports to Harcourt Assessment&#8217;s SVP and CTO, Everett Plante, and oversees the company&#8217;s core business strategies, the IT resource center, telecom, IT security and all existing core systems.&nbsp;&nbsp; </P> <P>Wong comes to the San Antonio, Texas-based company from <B>RWE Trading Americas</B>, which is a subsidiary of a European energy company.&nbsp; There, Wong established the IT infrastructure, data center and IT staff for the new energy trading company.&nbsp; Prior to RWE Trading Americas, he worked for Enron, Chemconnect.com, Koch Industries and ExxonMobil in IT positions.&nbsp; He holds an MBA and Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Houston. </P> <p><a href="?CID=13565"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:17:01 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13487 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13487 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=80 src="http://news.vzw.com/images/releases/JohnHinshawL4Web.jpg" width=100 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Last week, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Verizon Wireless</B></A></B> named <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">John Hinshaw</B> (pictured above) vice president and CIO.&nbsp; Hinshaw succeeds <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Roger Gurani</B>, who was promoted to president of Verizon Wireless&#8217;s West Area business operations. Hinshaw, who now oversees a department with 2,100 employees, has been a member of Verizon Wireless&#8217;s executive team and IT organization since the company was founded in 2000.&nbsp; He reports to <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Denny Strigl</B>, president and CEO of Verizon Wireless.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In a press release, Henshaw&#8217;s boss spoke of the new CIO&#8217;s accomplishments: &#8220;John has been a key player in the formation of the Verizon Wireless IT organization since we launched the business five years ago and has helped build an information systems infrastructure that is market-driven and focused on delivering a superior customer experience.&#8221; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13487"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:42:06 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13445 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13445 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>I&#8217;ve got some good dish today.&nbsp; But before I get to it, I want to thank my readers for their loyalty, their kind feedback and their tips.&nbsp; Special thanks to the readers who provided me with today&#8217;s news.</P> <P><B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/030100/chase.html"><B>Steven Brigham</B></A></B> will be leaving his&nbsp;post as CIO of boot-maker <B><A href="http://www.timberland.com/home/index.jsp" target=_blank><B>The Timberland Co.</B></A></B> His last day is October 31st.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve learned that he&#8217;s leaving the Stratham, N.H.-based company to take a position with another company heading up its distributon and logistics function in addition to serving as its CIO.&nbsp; (I can&#8217;t reveal the name of Brigham&#8217;s new employer until November 1, so stay tuned.)&nbsp; Brigham had worked in business operations previously for Adaptive Broadband&nbsp;and wanted to get back into business functions.&nbsp; <IMG height=278 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/081504_zink.jpg" width=150 align=left> </P> <P>A different source informed me of a management change at <B><A href="https://www.bcbsri.com/BCBSRIWeb/index.jsp" target=_blank><B>Blue</B> <B>Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island</B></A></B>.&nbsp; After being <I>sans</I> permanent CIO since Fall 2004, the health insurance provider has hired one <B>E.J. Southerland</B> (sp?) as its new CIO.&nbsp; My source tells me Southerland succeeds <B>Lance Kirk</B>, who had served as interim CIO after its last &#8220;permanent&#8221; CIO, <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/081504/builit.html"><B>David Zink</B></A></B> (pictured at left), left.&nbsp; I interviewed Zink about a year and a half ago when BCBS of RI was named a CIO 100 honoree.&nbsp; Zink did a yeoman&#8217;s work transforming BCBS of RI&#8217;s IT department.&nbsp; I should have more info on Mr. Southerland on Monday.</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13445"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:15:11 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13411 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13411 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>The number of management changes from the VP level up to the board of directors increased during the month of September, according to a report from <A href="http://liberum.twst.com/" target=_blank>Liberum Research</A>, a company that tracks changes in top management for investors interested in buying and selling stock based on such news.&nbsp; Liberum counted a total of 1,563 changes in board members, CEOs, CFOs, EVPs and VPs in September, up from 1,463 in August.&nbsp; Liberum also tracked 10 CIO changes in September, down from the 17 in August.&nbsp; Of the 10 CIO changes, there were </P> <UL> <LI>three promotions (<A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12552">Jeffrey Keisling</A> at Wyeth, Kevin Shearan at Mellon Financial, and <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11741">Jerry Bartlett</A> at Ameritrade)</LI> <LI>five companies hiring CIOs from outside (<A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12459">Sam Coursen</A> at Feescale Semiconductor, <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12398">Michael Rapken</A> at Yellow Roadway, <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11811">Cecilia Claudio</A> at Mercury Interactive, <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11763">Timothy Monteith</A> at Masco and <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11632">Michael Boltz</A> at Amerus Group)</LI> <LI>one resignation (Cecilia Claudio from Align Technologies) </LI> <LI>and one retirement (Wyeth&#8217;s <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12552">Bruce Fadem</A>).</LI></UL> <P>Richard Jacovitz, Liberum&#8217;s senior vice president and director of research, says the continued increase in management changes is a sign of the pressure on executives to &#8220;perform or move on.&#8221;&nbsp; He expects the rapid pace of management change to continue through this month.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13411"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:42:42 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13331 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13331 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.heinz.com/" target=_blank><IMG height=130 src="http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/viewpoints/alber/alber_home.jpg" width=91 align=left> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">H.J. Heinz Co.</B></A></B> announced yesterday that it hired <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Karen L. Alber</B> (pictured at left) as its new vice president and CIO.&nbsp; This is Alber&#8217;s first CIO position.&nbsp; She&nbsp;comes to the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based food company from <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Pepsico</B> where she most recently served as vice president of change readiness for enterprise systems.&nbsp; Prior to Pepsico, she was vice president of business solutions with Quaker Oats.&nbsp; When Quaker merged with Pepsico, she presided over that event as vice president of the integration office.&nbsp; Alber has also previously worked for SAP <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place> as manager for its consumer products, food and beverage segment.&nbsp; An active member of the CPG industry, she recently served as international conference chair for <A href="http://www.apics.org/default.htm" target=_blank>APICS</A> and is a member of the editorial board for <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><A href="http://www.consumergoods.com/cgt/index.shtml" target=_blank><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Consumer Goods Technology</I></A></I> magazine.&nbsp; She has a total of 19 years experience in supply chain management, systems implementation, operations, process improvement and change management. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13331"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:25:47 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13286 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13286 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B>Carl Wilson</B>, <B><A href="http://www.marriott.com/" target=_blank><B>Marriott</B></A></B>&#8217;s EVP and CIO, was <A href="http://www.rivermine.com/viewpress.php?number=61" target=_blank>elected</A> to the board of directors of <B><A href="http://www.rivermine.com/" target=_blank><B>Rivermine</B></A></B>, a provider of telecom management software.&nbsp; Marriott has been a customer of Rivermine since 2002.&nbsp; Wilson has worked for Marriott since 1997.&nbsp; Prior to Marriott, Wilson worked for Georgia-Pacific as its CIO and vice president of information resources; Grand Metropolitan as its senior vice president of management information services for its food and international retailing sectors; and Pillsbury as its vice president of information management.&nbsp; Over the years, Wilson has been featured in numerous <I>CIO</I> articles, including a <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/021505/eva_marriott.html">profile</A>&nbsp;of Marriott&#8217;s revenue management system, which won an Enterprise Value Award last year, and a <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/081500/suite.html">story</A> on Marriott&#8217;s methods for measuring the return on CRM investments.</P> <P><B>Anthony Iorio</B> was recently promoted to the newly created position of CIO of Global Infrastucture and Operations for the Enterprise Technology Group at <B><A href="http://www.marsh.com/" target=_blank><B>Marsh</B></A></B> (a subsidiary of <A href="http://www.mmc.com/" target=_blank>Marsh &amp; McLennan Companies</A>.) He is responsible for the company&#8217;s global computing and network infrastructure as well as information security. He is also head of a shared service function that provides data and voice services to internal operating companies.&nbsp; Prior to joining Marsh, Iorio was senior vice president and director of global technology infrastructure at <B>Citigroup</B>, where he was responsible for managing the North American technology infrastructure and operations group. Prior to Citigroup, Iorio held a variety of senior information technology and telecommunications positions in the manufacturing, insurance and hospitality segments of ITT Corporation.</P><IMG src="/images2005/movers_hoffman.jpg" align=left> <P><B>John Hoffman</B>&nbsp;(left) <B><A href="http://www.appliedmaterials.com/" target=_blank><B>Applied Materials</B></A> </B>after 17 years to become CEO of <B><A href="http://www.ragingwire.com/" target=_blank><B>RagingWire Enterprise Solutions</B></A></B>, an IT outsourcing provider.&nbsp; Hoffman most recently served as CIO and general manager of e-business at Applied<B> </B>Materials.&nbsp; &nbsp;During his long tenure with semiconductor manufacturing technology provider, he held various senior positions, including president and general manager of the Wafer Inspection Division, general manager of the Global Intel Account and general manager of the Global Service Division.&nbsp; He graduated from West Point. <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13286"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:06:11 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13238 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13238 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Thank heavens for secondary sources: Today&#8217;s crop of announcements come from <I><A href="http://www.govtech.net/" target=_blank><I>Government Technology</I></A></I>, <I><A href="http://www.gcn.com/" target=_blank><I>Government Computer News</I></A></I> and <I><A href="http://www.journalrecord.com/" target=_blank><I>The Journal Record</I></A></I> of Oklahoma City. </P><IMG height=108 src="http://www.cio.state.ny.us/Site%20Graphics/DillonPortraitsm3.jpg" width=78 align=left> <P><I>Government Technology</I> <A href="http://www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=96940" target=_blank>reported</A> last week that <A href="http://www.cio.state.ny.us/" target=_blank>New York State CIO</A> <A href="http://www.cio.state.ny.us/dillonbio.htm" target=_blank><STRONG>James Dillon</STRONG></A> (pictured at left) announced that he would retire from&nbsp;his post on December 9, 2005.&nbsp; (Is it me, or does this guy not look old enough to retire?)&nbsp;Dillon has served as CIO for the <STRONG>Empire State</STRONG> since January 2002.&nbsp; He was appointed by <STRONG>Governor George Pataki</STRONG>.&nbsp;<EM>Government Technology</EM> recently <A href="http://www.public-cio.com/newsStory.php?id=2005.10.14-96965" target=_blank>interviewed</A> Dillon about his accomplishments and plans upon leaving state government.&nbsp; I interviewed Dillon for an <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/060103/states_ny.html">article</A> on how state CIOs were dealing with budget cuts in 2002.&nbsp; </P> <P><I>Government Computer News</I> <A href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37306-1.html" target=_blank>reports</A> that <STRONG>Bruce Brody</STRONG> is leaving his post as associate CIO for cybersecurity at the <STRONG>Energy Department</STRONG>.&nbsp; (What would I do without <I>Government Computer News</I>?)&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13238"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:17:53 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13191 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13191 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Today I&#8217;m channeling <A href="http://www.joanrivers.com/" target=_blank>Joan Rivers</A> (pictured at right) and beginning the blog with gossip: In July, I reported that <A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2005/mover2361.html?TYPE=lastname">Jeff Balagna</A>, then <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Medtronic</B>&#8217;s CIO, was joining Carlson Companies. And last week I reported that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12711" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">William McGarry</B></A></B>, former VP of enterprise applications at Medtronic, joined <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">St. Jude Medical</B>.&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">a friendly and informed reader</B> told me that McGarry had been the number two IT guy at Medtronic, and that McGarry apparently was <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">none too pleased</B> when he found out that Medtronic wasn&#8217;t going to move him into Balagna&#8217;s old position (and who can blame him?).&nbsp; <IMG height=133 src="http://www.joanrivers.com/talk/buzz/images/buzz_joan_top1a.jpg" width=194 align=right> Evidently, Medtronic&#8217;s snub is the reason McGarry left for St. Jude&#8217;s.&nbsp; So kudos to McGarry for getting the CIO post he wanted. I wonder if Medtronic is annoyed about losing a key employee?&nbsp; Any of you friendly readers know? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">This bit of news from New Zealand ought to put smiles on the faces of those readers who aspire to be CEO someday: <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.airnz.co.nz/aboutus/mediacentre/pressreleases/airnz_appoints_ceo.htm" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Rob Fyfe</B></A></B>, who joined <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Air New Zealand</B> as CIO in 2003, was named the airline&#8217;s new chief executive.&nbsp; He beat out a host of internal and external candidates for the coveted position.&nbsp; Fyfe, 44, most recently served as group general manager of airlines.&nbsp; John Palmer, Air New Zealand&#8217;s chairman, said in a press release that Fyfe was &#8220;appointed on merit after an extensive and rigorous selection process, which attracted high quality overseas candidates through to the final stage.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"></B>&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13191"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:19:20 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13051 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13051 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=USTR&amp;script=410&amp;layout=7&amp;item_id=766643" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Charles K. Crovitz</B></A></B> was elected to <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.unitedstationers.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">United Stationers</B></A></B>&#8217; board of directors.&nbsp; He will serve on the business products distributor&#8217;s technology and human resources committees.&nbsp; Crovitz, 52, worked for Gap Inc. from 1993 until 2003.&nbsp; His last position with the retailer was as its executive vice president and chief supply chain officer and member of the executive leadership team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>During his ten year tenure with Gap, Crovitz also served as its EVP of supply chain and technology and as its senior vice president of strategy and business development.&nbsp; He helped reduce the company&#8217;s expense structure by $250 million during a two-year period. He also co-led the re-engineering of the Gap brand&#8217;s product pipeline from product design to store delivery as well as managed the replacement of Gap&#8217;s proprietary core technology system. Prior to Gap, he worked for Safeway as a member of its operating committee, as its senior vice president and CIO, and as vice president and director of marketing for Safeway Manufacturing Group.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Glen Blackmon</B> was hired as president and COO of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.internetamerica.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Internet America</B></A></B>, a provider of Internet access services based in Dallas.&nbsp; Most recently, Blackmon, who&#8217;s been a private equity investor since 1997, was chairman of AcademicPlanet, an ISP based in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Houston</st1:City>.&nbsp; Prior to Academic Planet, Blackmon was EVP, CIO and CFO of Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, <st1:State w:st="on">Calif.</st1:State>&nbsp; He spent a total of 18 years in commercial banking.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=13051"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:47:34 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12991 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12991 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">A few readers have asked me for information on how the recruiting industry works.&nbsp; The following Q&amp;A with Michael Burgett, founder and president of <A href="http://www.ciopoa.com/" target=_blank>CIO Partners of Atlanta</A>, a national IT services company that does recruiting, will hopefully answer those readers&#8217; questions.&nbsp; This is the first of two conversations I&#8217;ve had with different recruiters that will explore the dynamics of the recruiting industry and how CIOs can build long-term relationships with headhunters.&nbsp; Let me know if you find this material helpful.&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">CIO: How does the recruiting industry work?&nbsp; Does the recruiter represent the company that&#8217;s looking to fill a particular position, or does the recruiter represent the CIO who&#8217;s looking for a job? </I></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12991"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:57:00 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12911 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12911 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/060105/peoplesoft.html"><B><IMG height=133 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images2005/060105_beers.jpg" width=100 align=left border=0> Rick Beers</B></A></B> (pictured at left) left his post as director of business process architecture at <B>Corning</B> and joined <B><A href="http://www.bausch.com/" target=_blank><B>Bausch and Lomb</B></A></B> as vice president of information technology.&nbsp; Beers had worked for Corning for 32 years.&nbsp; </P> <P>Thanks to the friendly reader who told me that <B>Elinor MacKinnon</B> has been promoted to senior vice president and CIO at <B>Blue Shield of California</B>.&nbsp; Her promotion went into effect October 3, 2005.&nbsp; She replaces <B>David Bowen</B>, who left the company on August 19, 2005.&nbsp; </P> <P>Good old <I><A href="http://www.gcn.com/"><I>Government Computer News</I></A></I> reported that <B>Charlie Armstrong</B> was appointed deputy CIO of the <B><A href="http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/" target=_blank><B>Department of Homeland Security</B></A></B> under Scott Charbo. Armstrong, who moved into his new position last month, had most recently served as CIO of DHS&#8217;s Border and Transportation Directorate.&nbsp; GCN has the <A href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37253-1.html" target=_blank>low-down</A> on Armstrong and his new role. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12911"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:29:04 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12805 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12805 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><STRONG>News Flash</STRONG>: Certain behavioral qualities, such as the ability to tolerate uncertainty and to make quick decisions under pressure, are what separate the CIOs who become COOs and CEOs from the CIOs who don&#8217;t, according to new research from executive recruiting firm <A href="http://www.kornferry.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>Korn/Ferry International</STRONG></A>.&nbsp; The seven page report provides an overview of the behavioral differences between CIOs, CEOs and COOs and describes the specific behaviors that CIOs must possess or learn to move up the executive latter.&nbsp; For example, if CIOs wish to become COO or CEO, they have to learn to be more decisive more quickly under-pressure and keep their tendency toward &#8220;what-if&#8221; thinking at bay, according to the report. Also, CIOs need to demonstrate more self-confidence and ambition if they want to move into those roles.&nbsp; Interested readers can find the report at Korn/Ferry&#8217;s <A href="http://www.kornferry.com/Library/Process.asp?P=Articles_Detail&amp;CID=1126&amp;LID=1" target=_blank>web site</A> or on <A href="http://www.cio.com/blogs/movers/CIO_to_CEO.pdf">CIO.com</A>.&nbsp; I read the entire report in about 10 minutes and can tell you it&#8217;s certainly worth 10 minutes.&nbsp; (Plus, it includes an insightful quote from <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/080101/adventure.html">Dennis Jones</A>, the one-time CIO of FedEx who became COO of Commerce One.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">And now for more news about CIOs&#8230;</P><IMG height=150 src="http://www.siliconindia.com/magazine/pics/sioct05_pg30.jpg" width=201 align=left> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12805"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:17:34 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12773 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12773 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Government Computer News</I><SPAN class=subheadline1> <A href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37171-1.html" target=_blank>reports</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">&nbsp;<SPAN class=subheadline1>that <B>Alan Wade</B> has retired as CIO of the <B><A href="http://www.cia.gov/" target=_blank><B>Central Intelligence Agency</B></A></B>.&nbsp; He worked for the CIA for 36 years.&nbsp; The new CIO is <B>Al Tarasiuk Jr.</B>, who&#8217;s worked for the agency for many years.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/080100/langley.html">link</A> to a story <EM>CIO</EM> did about the CIA in 2000. Note: Alan Wade is not in the story.</SPAN></SPAN></P><IMG height=80 src="http://www.ocio.usda.gov/images/d_combs.jpg" width=70 align=left> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Government Computer News</I><SPAN class=subheadline1> also <A href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37195-1.html" target=_blank>reported</A>&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN class=subheadline1>that the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><B><A href="http://www.usda.gov/" target=_blank><st1:country-region w:st="on"><B>US</B></st1:country-region><B> Department of Agriculture</B></A></B></st1:country-region> officially made <B>Dave Combs</B> (pictured at left, and no relation to Sean &#8220;Puff Daddy&#8221; aka &#8220;Puffy&#8221; aka &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs) its CIO. Combs had served as the agency&#8217;s acting CIO for the past three months.&nbsp; He was named acting CIO after Scott Charbo resigned in June to become CIO at the Department of Homeland Security.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Before being named acting CIO, Combs had served as acting deputy CIO since June 2004.&nbsp; It must feel good to Combs to no longer be &#8220;acting&#8221; anything.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12773"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:27:14 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12711 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12711 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B>Robert Whittington</B> recently joined <B>Wendy&#8217;s International</B> as senior vice president and CIO. He succeeds <STRONG>John Deane </STRONG>in the CIO role; Deane was promoted in May 2005 from EVP and CIO to EVP of Wendy&#8217;s North American Operations (more on Deane below.)&nbsp; Whittington comes to the Dublin, Ohio-based company from Sun Microsystems where his title was retail vertical technology officer. Prior to Sun, he worked for EDS as its vice president of business process innovation consulting. He also previously worked for Ernst &amp; Young/Cap Gemini, consulting with such companies as The Fleming Companies, McDonald&#8217;s, Albertsons, Walgreens, Sears, Dayton Hudson, and the United Kingdom government. Whittington holds a bachelor of arts degree from Wheaton College and an MBA from the University of Chicago. <P><IMG height=212 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/031505_intelligence_deane.jpg" width=150 align=left> <P>During his tenure at Wendy&#8217;s, <STRONG>Deane</STRONG> (pictured at left) made the company&#8217;s information technology group more strategic and mobile, and oversaw key initiatives such as e-pay, store budgeting and store automation. He also championed change-management processes throughout the company to help meet changing consumer needs. Prior to Wendy&#8217;s Deane held senior management positions at MedPartners (now CareMark Rx), Whirlpool, Price Waterhouse, and he also founded his own technology services company, Clipper Management. Deane earned a bachelor of science degree in business from the Universidad Catolica Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an MBA from Marquette University.&nbsp; Deane is also featured in <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/031505/intelligence.html">this cover</A> story I wrote about business intelligence in the restaurant industry. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12711"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:11:17 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12626 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12626 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><I><A href="http://www.sacbee.com/" target=_blank><I>The Sacramento Bee</I></A></I> reported that California Governorator <B>Arnold Schwarzenegger</B> appointed <B>P.K. Agarwal</B> director of <B>California&#8217;s Department of Technology Services</B>.&nbsp; Agarwal, 58, has been vice president of ACS, an IT outsourcing provider, since 2003.&nbsp; He will earn an annual salary of $123,255, according to <I>The Bee</I>.&nbsp; His position requires the state Senate&#8217;s confirmation. The Department of Technology Services was established in July of this year to consolidate and modernize the state&#8217;s IT.&nbsp; My colleague Susannah Patton who writes for CIO from her home-office in California doesn&#8217;t think Agarwal is replacing <B>Clark Kelso</B>, who was appointed the state&#8217;s CIO in 2002. She thinks Agarwal is overseeing the state&#8217;s newly merged data centers.</P> <P><I><A href="http://www.cpnonline.com/" target=_blank><I>Commercial Property News</I></A></I> <A href="http://www.cpnonline.com/cpn/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001219838" target=_blank>reports</A> that <B>Robert Entin</B> will join <B>Vornado Realty Trust</B> http://www.vno.com/index.phtml as its new CIO at the beginning of 2006.&nbsp; Entin is the founder, president and chairman of <B><A href="http://www.ibsre.com/" target=_blank><B>Integrated Business Systems</B></A></B>, a real estate software provider.&nbsp; </P> <P>IT News.com <A href="http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=20297" target=_blank>reports</A> that <B><A href="http://www.kaz-group.com/" target=_blank><B>KAZ Group</B></A></B>, an Australian IT services company owned by <B><A href="http://telstra.com/index.jsp?SMIDENTITY=NO" target=_blank><B>Telstra</B></A></B>, Australia&#8217;s leading telecom company, hired <B>Tony Gold</B> as its CIO.&nbsp; Gold will manage all functions within KAZ Business Services and its superannuation administration arm AAS.&nbsp; He previously worked for Superpartners and Financial Synergy.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12626"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:16:41 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12552 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12552 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Readers, I&#8217;m full of warm fuzzies today.&nbsp; Behold: </P> <P><IMG height=128 src="http://images.cio.com/images2005/movers_quish2.jpg" width=95 align=left> <B>Sheleen Quish</B> (photo at left) is leaving her post as VP and CIO of <B>US Can Co.</B>&nbsp; Yesterday, she sent a lovely, inspiring e-mail to friends, colleagues and associates informing them of her departure from the company.&nbsp;&nbsp; I interviewed <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/111503/peer.html">Sheleen</A> several years ago for an article on dealing with <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/110103/poor.html">under-performing workers</A>.&nbsp; She was an invaluable resource for the piece. In speaking with her, I quickly concluded that she is a highly effective leader and a smart and fair manager of her staff.&nbsp; Sheleen, if you&#8217;re reading this, I wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors.</P><IMG height=95 src="http://images.cio.com/images2005/movers_lipscomb.jpg" width=77 align=right> <P>Another CIO I&#8217;ve interviewed for stories has taken a new job.&nbsp; <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/041504/tl_resteraunt.html"><B>Deborah Lipscomb</B></A> (photo at right) has literally moved on to greener pastures from Carlson Restaurants Worldwide.&nbsp; The former Carlson Restaurants CIO joined <B><A href="http://%20www.clubcorp.com/" target=_blank><B>ClubCorp</B></A></B>, an operator of golf courses and country clubs based in Dallas, as its senior vice president and CIO.&nbsp; She will serve on the company&#8217;s operations committee.&nbsp; Deb worked for Carlson, which operates and franchises TGIFriday&#8217;s and Pick Up Stix restaurants,&nbsp; for two years.&nbsp; While she was there, she oversaw a <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/031505/intelligence.html">successful BI implementation</A>.&nbsp; Like Sheleen, she&#8217;s a terrific woman and an excellent CIO.&nbsp; Best of luck to you, Deb, in your new role!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12552"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:05:50 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12459 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12459 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Thanks to my friends at <B><A href="http://www.kornferry.com/Default.asp" target=_blank><B>Korn/Ferry</B></A></B> who gave me this big scoop: <B>Gordon C. Steele</B> of <B>Nike</B> <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/061504/nike.html">fame</A> is now at <B><A href="http://www.newellco.com/newellco/index.jhtml?_requestid=355476" target=_blank><B>Newell Rubbermaid</B></A></B>.&nbsp; Steele, who resigned as Nike&#8217;s CIO in January of this year, replaced <B>John M. Avampato</B> as the Atlanta-based manufacturing company&#8217;s CIO.</P> <P><B>Sam Coursen</B> left his post as CIO of <B><A href="http://www.ncr.com/" target=_blank><B>NCR</B></A></B> to join <B><A href="http://www.freescale.com/" target=_blank><B>Freescale Semiconductor</B></A></B> as its vice president and CIO.&nbsp; During his seven year tenure as NCR&#8217;s CIO, Coursen reengineered the company&#8217;s IT by standardizing, consolidating, centralizing and outsourcing various systems and services, and he established an IT governance process.&nbsp; I wonder how much his departure from NCR was influenced by the arrival of a new CEO in August following Mark Hurd&#8217;s defection to HP?</P> <P>&nbsp;And last but not least...the new CIO at <B>Fisher Scientific</B> is <B>Jim Breisinger</B>. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12459"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:21:08 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12398 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12398 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B>Michael Rapken</B> has scored a big job change.&nbsp; The VP of applications development at <B><A href="http://www.sprintnextel.com/" target=_blank><B>Sprint Nextel</B></A></B> was hired as senior vice president and CIO of <B><A href="http://www.yellowroadway.com/" target=_blank><B>Yellow Roadway Corp.</B></A></B>, reporting to <B>Bill Zollars</B>, the chairman, president and CEO of the Overland Park, Kansas-based transportation company.&nbsp; No word yet on whether or not Rapken has replaced <B><A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2003/mover1532.html"><B>Bob Obee</B></A></B>, <A href="http://www2.cio.com/archive/081505/winner.cfm?id=100">Yellow Roadway</A>&#8217;s <A href="http://www2.cio.com/archive/081505/winner.cfm?id=100">chief technology integration officer</A>.&nbsp; </P> <P><B><A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2004/mover1971.html"><B>Michael D. Tolbert</B></A></B>, who has served as president of <B>Jennie-O Turkey Store</B> and vice president of Hormel Foods since 2004, was promoted to group vice president of <B><A href="http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/favorites.asp?favoriteid=1" target=_blank><B>Hormel Foods</B></A></B>.&nbsp; His promotion, which the Austin, Minn.-based food company announced among several other <A href="http://media.hormel.com/templates/knowledge/knowledge.asp?catitemid=2&amp;id=310" target=_blank>management changes</A>, goes into effect on Halloween.&nbsp; Tolbert has steadily moved up the food chain since he joined Hormel as a merchandiser in 1979.&nbsp; In 1985, he became a district sales manager.&nbsp; In 1991, he was promoted to regional sales manager.&nbsp; Five years later, he was named national manager of business development.&nbsp; Y2K saw his appointment to director of business development.&nbsp; He then held the CIO post at the company from 2002 until he was appointed president of Jennie-O Turkey Store.</P> <P><B>William J. Cary</B> was elected to the board of directors of <B><A href="http://www.enherent.com/" target=_blank><B>enherent Corp.</B></A></B>&nbsp;&nbsp; He will sit on the IT professional services firm&#8217;s audit committee.&nbsp; Cary has over 35 years of experience in IT.&nbsp; From December 1997 to December 2002, he was senior vice president and CIO of electronic payment company <B>NYCE Corp.</B> responsible for creating a national shared network for ATMs, online debit point of sales and electronic benefit transactions.&nbsp; He also served on NYCE&#8217;s board of directors from June 2002 to May 2002.&nbsp; Prior to NYCE, Cary worked for Citibank as its senior vice president and chief domain architect from April 1982 to November 1997.&nbsp; Previously, he also worked for Sealand Service, John Wiley &amp; Sons, and Avis Rent-a-Car.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12398"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:03:10 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12331 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12331 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B><A href="http://www.lenovo.com/" target=_blank><B>Lenovo Group</B></A></B>, the Chinese company that purchased IBM&#8217;s PC division in April 2005, hired <B>Steven J. Bandrowczak</B> as its senior vice president and CIO.&nbsp; Bandrowczak, 45, reports to Lenovo&#8217;s CEO, Steve Ward.&nbsp; He comes to the company from DHL Worldwide where he was executive vice president and CIO.&nbsp; Prior to DHL, Bandrowczak was COO of Seal Consulting Group and CIO of Avnet, where he worked for 14 years.&nbsp; He holds a computer science degree from C.W. Post University.&nbsp;&nbsp; </P><IMG height=152 src="http://images.cio.com/images2005/movers_schueman.jpg" width=107 align=right> <P><B>Greg Schueman</B> (pictured at right) recently joined <B><A href="http://www.edicwc.com/" target=_blank><B>Employers Direct Insurance Co.</B></A></B> as vice president and CIO of the Agoura Hills, Calif.-based provider of workers&#8217; compensation insurance.&nbsp; He most recently worked for Mercury Insurance as vice president of IT and CTO.&nbsp; </P> <P><IMG height=156 src="http://images.cio.com/images2005/movers_lefave.jpg" width=100 align=left> Two CIOs were recently honored with <B>Albert Einstein Awards</B> for their achievements in the technology industry.&nbsp; <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/051504/outsourcing.html"><B>Dick LeFave</B></A></B>&nbsp;(pictured at left),&nbsp;senior vice president and CIO of <B>Nextel</B>, and <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/020104/tl_move.html"><B>Tom Trainer</B></A></B>, senior vice president and CIO of <B>PepsiCo</B>, earned the recognition for their leadership and for their contributions to the high-tech industry.&nbsp; The award was presented by <A href="http://www.globalcapitalassociates.com/index.htm" target=_blank>Global Capital Associates</A>. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12331"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:45:34 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12231 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12231 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>About an hour and a half&nbsp;ago (it&#8217;s now&nbsp;2:20 PM ET), I received a tip via e-mail about a CIO change at Fisher Scientific.&nbsp; I am trying to confirm this information and have left a message for the PR person at Fisher Scientific.&nbsp; I hope to have more info soon.&nbsp; I thank the individual who gave me the heads up: Were it not for you, it&#8217;d be a quiet day on the Movers &amp; Shakers front.</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12231"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:03:40 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12171 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12171 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Dale Stinton</B> is one busy man and he&#8217;s about to assume even more responsibility.&nbsp; Stinton is currently CFO and CIO of the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.realtor.org/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">National Association of Realtors</B></A></B> (NAR.)&nbsp; On November 1, he becomes CEO of the trade association, too, succeeding <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Terry</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">McDermott</B>, who is retiring.&nbsp; Stinton joined NAR 24 years ago and was named CFO in 1991.&nbsp; He served as acting CEO in 1996.&nbsp; Two years later, he was also appointed CIO.&nbsp; As CFO and CIO, he&#8217;s in charge of overseeing the association&#8217;s finances, its political action committee (RPAC), its website and its long-term IT strategy.&nbsp; Stinton recently oversaw the development, financing and construction of NAR&#8217;s new $47 million office building in Washington, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State>, and the establishment of the $52 million Strategic Investment Reserve.&nbsp; Stinton is a Certified Association Executive, a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant. He earned his MBA from DePaul University and his Bachelor of Science degree from Western Illinois University.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.thumbspeed.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Thumbspeed</B></A></B> gave<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Steve Elfman</B> a thumbs up.&nbsp; The developer of applications for mobile phones and other wireless devices appointed Elfman to its advisory board.&nbsp; Elfman currently works for online directory <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.infospaceinc.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">InfoSpace</B></A></B> as its executive vice president of technology and operations.&nbsp; Before joining InfoSpace, he was CIO of AT&amp;T Wireless Services.&nbsp; He previously worked for GE Capital Fleet Services and 3M in senior technical management positions. </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12171"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:36:02 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12094 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12094 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Richard Scionti</B> was named vice president of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.gmi-mr.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Global Market Insite</B></A></B>&#8217;s (GMI) global enterprise solutions group.&nbsp; GMI provides an integrated suite of applications for Internet-based market research.&nbsp; Scionti comes to the company from <A href="http://www.spss.com/" target=_blank>SPSS</A>, a provider of predictive analytics software. Prior to SPSS, he was worldwide CIO for <A href="http://www.research-int.com/" target=_blank>Research International Group</A> in London.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12094"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:03:30 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12034 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12034 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Packaging products provider <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.greif.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Greif</B></A></B> is reorganizing its finance department, the company announced yesterday.&nbsp; As part of the reorganization, which will be complete by January 1, 2006, Greif&#8217;s Vice President and CIO, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ken Andre</B>, will also serve as corporate controller.&nbsp; Andre is no stranger to the world of dollars and cents: he earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame (Go Fighting Irish!) and began his career as an auditor with Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers.)&nbsp; He then joined Van Leer Containers as a staff accountant and later moved into IT.&nbsp; Andre appeared in a <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/040101/passport_flux.html">feature</A> on global business in the April 1, 2001, issue of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">CIO</I>. </P> <P><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Government Health IT</I> reports that Retired Army Col. <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Carl E. Hendricks</B> has been appointed CIO of the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Military Health System</B>.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t write any more about this appointment without completely plagiarizing the reporter who originally wrote it, so if you want more info on Hendricks, who has an interesting background, click <A href="http://govhealthit.com/article90852-09-19-05-Web" target=_blank>here</A>. </P> <P>Retired Brigadier General <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Bernie Skoch</B> was appointed to <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.sigaba.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sigaba</B></A></B>&#8217;s federal advisory board.&nbsp; During his 20 year military career, Skoch served as director of communications operations at the United States Air Force&#8217;s headquarters in the Pentagon.&nbsp; Before that, Skoch was the principal director for customer advocacy at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) where he established a team to implement the Department of Defense&#8217;s first ever customer advocacy organization.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=12034"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:05:47 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11965 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11965 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B><A href="http://www.bea.com/" target=_blank><B>BEA Systems</B></A></B>&#8217; SVP and CIO <B><A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2004/mover2045.html"><B>Rhonda Hocker</B></A></B> was <A href="http://www.valaran.com/newsdetails.asp?ID=52" target=_blank>elected chairman</A> of <B>Valaran</B>&#8217;s board of directors.&nbsp; Hocker has served as a director of the Princeton, N.J.-based software provider since August 2004.&nbsp; (Hocker&#8217;s deputy CIO at BEA, <B><A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/071505/otw_guide.html"><B>Dale Slaughenhaupt</B></A></B>, was selected for <I>CIO</I>&#8217;s Ones to Watch honor earlier this year.) </P> <P>In other news of board appointments, one-time <B>Microsoft</B> CIO <B><A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2005/mover2353.html"><B>John Connors</B></A></B> was named to the board of <B><A href="http://www.certus.com/" target=_blank><B>Certus Software</B></A></B>. &nbsp;This is his second board appointment in two months, having been appointed to <B><A href="http://www.jobster.com/index.jsp?hasFlash=true" target=_blank><B>Jobster</B></A></B>&#8217;s board of directors in July.</P> <P><I>Biotech Business Week</I> reported that <B>Mark Boxer</B> was appointed president and CEO of consumer-driven health plans, enterprise services and Medicare government business at <B><A href="http://www.wellpoint.com/" target=_blank><B>WellPoint</B></A></B>.&nbsp; During Boxer&#8217;s five-year tenure with WellPoint, he has served as executive vice president for strategy, enterprise operations and Medicare services; senior vice president electronic commerce; executive vice president and chief business development officer; and chief information officer.</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11965"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 02:19:45 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11922 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11922 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B><A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2004/mover1929.html"><B>Dave McNally</B></A></B> has been appointed CIO of <B><A href="http://www.ahold.com/" target=_blank><B>Ahold</B></A></B>, the Netherlands-based international food provider announced yesterday.&nbsp; McNally was most recently CIO for Ahold&#8217;s U.S. Foodservice business. &nbsp;In his new role, he&nbsp; will advise Ahold&#8217;s corporate executive board and senior business executives on the strategic role information technology can play throughout the company. He will also be in charge of developing a single IT strategy and portfolio of applications for Ahold.&nbsp; McNally succeeds <B><A href="http://www2.cio.com/movers/2004/mover2032.html"><B>Alex Gibbons</B></A></B> in this new role; Gibbons decided to leave the company for personal reasons, according to an Ahold <A href="http://www.ahold.com/index.asp?id=1134" target=_blank>press release</A>.&nbsp; </P> <P>Malaysia&#8217;s stock exchange operator <B><A href="http://www.klse.com.my/" target=_blank><B>Bursa</B><B> Malaysia</B></A></B> consolidated its chief information officer positions into one unit.&nbsp; <B>Yew Kim Keong</B>, the current chief information officer will assume that sole position at the end of September. Yew Kim Keong will also serve as the project director of Bursa Trade (formerly known as the Common Trading Platform initiative).<BR><BR></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11922"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:00:32 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11907 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11907 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Thomas A. Fisher</B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"> joined <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.prcnet.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">PRC</B></A></B>, a provider of CRM services, last week, replacing <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Tina Rourk</B>.&nbsp; He comes to the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company from The Hudson Highland Group where he was a managing director</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">. Previously, Fisher served as President of eo Associates; vice president of global information technology at Applica (Black &amp; Decker Household Products); CIO of First American Acceptance Corp.; and vice president and CIO of Long Distance International.&nbsp;And <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/011503/minds.html">here&#8217;s</A>&nbsp;a <EM>CIO</EM> feature story Fisher appeared in two years ago. </SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">David Dibble</B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> will join electronic commerce and payments services provider <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.firstdata.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">First Data</B></A></B> as CTO on October 1.&nbsp; He will report directly to <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Charlie Fote</B>, chairman and CEO of the Greenwood Village, Colo.-based company.&nbsp; He most recently served as a managing director in <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JPMorgan Chase</B>&#8217;s technology organization, where he was responsible for defining and implementing a global data center strategy as well as systems integration projects associated with acquisitions.&nbsp; As CTO, Dibble will be responsible for all IT development activities, and his team will focus on identifying, creating and implementing technologies that drive customer solutions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Guy Battista</B> remains First Data&#8217;s CIO. </SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11907"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:24:37 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11811 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11811 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<IMG height=270 src="http://images.cio.com/archive/images/030103_home_claudio_R.jpg" width=150 align=left> <P><B>Cecilia Claudio</B> is <A href="http://investor.aligntech.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=172984&amp;" target=_blank>leaving her post</A>&nbsp;as CIO of <B><A href="http://www.invisalign.com/" target=_blank><B>Align Technology</B></A></B> on September 30, 2005 to join <B><A href="http://www.mercury.com/" target=_blank><B>Mercury Interactive</B></A></B> as its CIO.&nbsp; Claudio joined Align, which makes an alternative to braces for straightening teeth, in September 2004.&nbsp; Eldon Bullington, Align&#8217;s CFO, will assume day-to-day responsibility for the IT department in her absence.&nbsp; Prior to Align, Claudio worked for Zurich Financial as its head of its European, Asian and African IT operations and for Farmers Insurance as its CIO.&nbsp; Claudio is well-known to <I>CIO</I> readers, from her appearance in stories over the years, from <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/121504/cio_life.html">What It&#8217;s Like to Live in a Two-CIO Family</A> to <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/030103/home_claudio.html">Walk Like an Outsourcer</A>, a tale of bringing outsourced work back in house. </P> <P><B>Justin Hawley</B> was promoted to director of information technology at <B><A href="http://www.devonhealth.com/" target=_blank><B>Devon Health Services</B></A></B>, a national healthcare cost management company based in King of Prussia, Pa.&nbsp; Hawley, 36, most recently served as senior project manager in charge of Devon Health&#8217;s NetworX and Goldmine applications.&nbsp; In his new role, he will manage all software and technical networks, oversee day-to-day IT operations for the 100+ person company, and resolve troubleshooting issues.&nbsp; Hawley joined Devon Health in 2003 after serving the company for three years as an IT consultant.&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11811"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:42:47 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11763 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11763 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.masco.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Masco</B></A></B> hired <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://investors.masco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=172695" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Timothy J. Monteith</B></A></B> as its vice president and CIO.&nbsp; Monteith, 52, reports to Alan Barry, president and COO of the<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Taylor, Mich.-based manufacturer.&nbsp; Monteith joins Masco from Domino&#8217;s Pizza where he was executive vice president and CIO.&nbsp; Prior to Domino&#8217;s, he held several senior management positions with Thomas S. Monaghan Inc., including executive vice president and COO.<BR><BR><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Variety</I> <A href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117928961?categoryId=30&amp;cs=1" target=_blank>reports</A> that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Universal Music Group</B> (UMG) promoted <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://new.umusic.com/News.aspx?NewsId=306" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Scott Belmont</B></A></B> from senior vice president of information technology to executive vice president and CIO. Belmont replaces <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=10471"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Joe</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DeTullio</B></A></B>, who was appointed CEO of Royalty Services LP, a joint venture between UMG, Warner Music Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Exigen Group.&nbsp; Belmont reports to UMG Vice Chairman and CFO Marinus N. Henny. <B></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And now for some news from Down Under&#8230;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><A href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/" target=_blank><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Australian</I></A></I>, Australia&#8217;s national daily newspaper, reports that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ian Rodgers</B> left <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Primus Telecom</B> as its CIO yesterday.&nbsp; Rodgers had joined the company October 2002.&nbsp; The company is looking for a new CIO.&nbsp; <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11763"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:31:27 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11741 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11741 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ameritrade</B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"> appears to have a strong succession planning process in place: Last Friday, Ameritrade announced who would succeed <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Asiff Hirji</B>, who was promoted from CIO to COO <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=10013">last month</A> following the resignation of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Peter Ricketts</B>, and the online brokerage didn&#8217;t go outside the company to find Hirji&#8217;s successor.&nbsp; Ameritrade appointed its Vice President of Application Development and Quality Assurance, <A href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=92139&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=754559&amp;highlight=," target=_blank><STRONG>Jerry Bartlett</STRONG></A>, as its new CIO.&nbsp; <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Bartlett</st1:City> has been with the company since 1999. <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"></B></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Procter &amp; Gamble</B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">&#8217;s former Deputy CIO <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.qsgi.com/press_72.htm" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Geoff Smith</B></A></B> was elected to the board of directors of WindsorTech, a technology services company that does business as <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A href="http://www.qsgi.com/" target=_blank><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">QSGI</B></A></B>. &nbsp;Since he left P&amp;G in 2004, Smith founded LP Enterprises LLC, an IT strategy and CRM consultancy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>While at P&amp;G, Smith was responsible for IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and evaluating advanced technologies.&nbsp; From 1997 to 2002, he led the development of P&amp;G&#8217;s customer and consumer-facing e-business solutions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Check out an article Smith penned for <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">CIO</I> in November 2004 called <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/110104/peer.html">You Can&#8217;t Outsource Everything</A>.</SPAN></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11741"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:31:43 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11686 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11686 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Thanks</B> to the IT Manager who e-mailed me yesterday to tell me about David Truzinski&#8217;s <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11091">move</A> to Leap Wireless. I find out about many changes in IT leadership through my own research, but I also depend on readers like this IT manager and the one who told me about <A href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11431">David Bowen</A> to keep me abreast of changes before they&#8217;re common knowledge. So when you hear of something, please drop me a line at <A href="mailto:mlevinson@cio.com">mlevinson@cio.com</A>. </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</B></P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11686"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:02:28 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11632 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11632 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>Do any of you read <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/090105/tl_on_the_move.html">On the Move</A>, my roundup of CIO announcements that appears in every first of the month issue of <EM>CIO</EM>? If so, please use the "Add Comment" mechanism on this blog to let me know what you think of On the Move, what you&#8217;d like to see in it, or how On the Move should differ from this blog.&nbsp; Now that I&#8217;m maintaining this blog on a daily basis, my editor and I want to differentiate On the Move from this blog to make the best use of each medium, and your feedback is important in determining the steps we take.&nbsp; </P> <P>And now for what you really came here to read...</P> <P>Having served his country for 26 years, <B>retired U.S. Army Colonel</B> <B><A href="http://www.segoviaip.com/docs/JTCPressRelease.pdf" target=_blank><B>Joseph (Tom) Catudal</B></A></B> joined <B><A href="http://www.segoviaip.com/" target=_blank><B>Segovia</B></A></B>, a provider of voice, data and video broadband satellite services to the U.S. military, as senior vice president of engineering and operations.&nbsp; Catudal recently served as the Coalition Provisional Authority&#8217;s CIO and director of information and communications technology in Iraq.&nbsp; Prior to his deployment to Baghdad, the decorated leader served as the deputy director of information operations, networks and space in the Office of the Army CIO/G6. &nbsp;</P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11632"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:45:27 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11571 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11571 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P>The number of management changes at public companies--from directors down to vice presidents--nearly doubled last month, from 762 in July to 1,463 in August, according to <A href="http://liberum.twst.com/" target=_blank><STRONG>Liberum Research</STRONG></A>, a company that tracks changes in top management for investors interested in buying or selling stocks based on such news.&nbsp; The number of management changes in August exceeded monthly averages of around 1100 that Liberum had been tracking prior to July.&nbsp; <STRONG>Richard Jacovitz</STRONG>, Liberum&#8217;s senior vice president and director of research, thinks the spike in August might have compensated for the drop off in management changes in July, which in turn might have been due to summertime lulls in business activity.&nbsp; </P> <P>Among the changes in August, Liberum counted 185 CEO changes at public companies in August compared with 71 the previous month; 172 CFO changes in August compared with 80 in July; and 17 CIO changes in August (I counted 19.)&nbsp; </P> <P>Liberum&#8217;s research suggests to me that we&#8217;ll likely see increased amounts of CIO turnover in the next couple of months as these new CEOs set new business strategies and assemble their own new management teams to execute them.&nbsp;&nbsp; </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11571"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:06:02 EST http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11521 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11521 (<a href="http://www.cio.com/">CIO</a>)<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Government Computer News</I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <A href="http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36883-1.html" target=_blank>reported</A> last week that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Arthur Gonzalez</B> has been appointed deputy CIO of the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Internal Revenue Service</B>.&nbsp; Gonzalez comes to federal government from the private sector.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>He most recently worked for Oxford Health Plans as its senior vice president and CIO.&nbsp; Before <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Oxford</st1:City>, he served as a divisional vice president in charge of application development at Kmart.&nbsp; <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The IRS has a <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/040101/taxman_sidebar1.html">history of burning through CIOs</A> like light bulbs, only most light bulbs last longer than the CIOs who get hired there. &nbsp;&nbsp;Hopefully Gonzalez and his boss, IRS CIO Todd Grams, will last longer&#8212;and be more successful&#8212;than their predecessors, <A href="http://www.cio.com/archive/040101/taxman.html">who haven&#8217;t had much luck modernizing that agency</A>. </P> <p><a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=11521"><strong> Read More...</strong></a></p> Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:21:17 EST