Stephen Crombie at the opening of the Vodafone Mobility Innovation Lab and Experience Centre in Wellington.Stephen Crombie of the New Zealand Police is one of the latest examples of climbing the CIO to CEO career ladder by moving to the top role at Education Payroll Limited (EPL) in July. EPL is the government company formed to take over the management of the schools’ payroll service following the Novopay incident. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe Crombie will be replacing Cathy Magiannis, who has been appointed as a director of the EPL board for a two-year term. Anne Speden, executive director: information, technology and systems, will be acting CIO at NZ Police. Related:CIO to CEO: Career advice from Rob Fyfe Stephen Crombie stepped up to the 2IC strategy/executive director, information, technology systems at NZ Police a year ago. This was an expansion of his CIO role at Police. He has also held executive roles at Ministry of Social Development, Department of Internal Affairs, Tait Communications and Telecom (now Spark), and Ericsson-Synergy. EPL board chair, Dame Patsy Reddy, says Crombie brings a wealth of experience in relevant public and private sector CEO and senior management positions that will ensure the company has the very best leadership going forward. “He has had an ideal mix of senior roles in IT, large-scale commercial management, business transformation, marketing and product management in both the public and private sectors,” says Reddy. “We are looking forward to welcoming Stephen on board and working together to ensure the NZ education payroll continues to build on a platform of continuous improvement.” Related: ‘The CIO is uniquely primed to ascend to the CEO and COO positions in technology driven companies.’ Stephen Crombie at a recent CIO roundtable discussion in Wellington. Related: Jonathan Ladd of Datacom on ‘treading the CIO to CEO path’ Send news tips and comments to divina_paredes@idg.co.nz Follow Divina Paredes on Twitter: @divinap Follow CIO New Zealand on Twitter:@cio_nz Sign up for CIO newsletters for regular updates on CIO news, views and events. Join us on Facebook. Related content opinion Four questions for a casino InfoSec director By Beth Kormanik Sep 21, 2023 3 mins Media and Entertainment Industry Events Security brandpost Four Leadership Motions make leading transformative work easier The Four Leadership Motions can be extremely beneficial —they don’t just drive results among software developers, they help people make extraordinary progress wherever they lead. By Jason Fraser, Director, Product Management & Design, VMware Tanzu Labs, Public Sector Sep 21, 2023 5 mins IT Leadership feature The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far In 2022, the big AI story was the technology emerging from research labs and proofs-of-concept, to it being deployed throughout enterprises to get business value. This year started out about the same, with slightly better ML algorithms and improved d By Maria Korolov Sep 21, 2023 16 mins Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence opinion 6 deadly sins of enterprise architecture EA is a complex endeavor made all the more challenging by the mistakes we enterprise architects can’t help but keep making — all in an honest effort to keep the enterprise humming. By Peter Wayner Sep 21, 2023 9 mins Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy Software Development Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe