Plus: New CIOs at Columbia Bancorp, Behringer Harvard, TRX and more! Happy New Year Devoted Movers & Shakers readers! I am so sorry I haven’t updated the page since December. I’ve feebly trying to catch up on the post-vacation work onslaught over the past two-and-a-half days. I’m happy to report that I don’t think I missed any announcements about CIOs taking new jobs while I was on vacation last week. But as the new year commences, the newswires are buzzing once again with press releases from companies hiring and promoting IT leaders. With that, I give you the low-down… Xerox yesterday announced that it named John McDermott (at left) its new CIO. He replaces Patricia Cusick, who retired last year. McDermott, 53, has worked for the Stamford, Conn.-based document company since August 2002. Most recently, he served as Xerox’s vice president of corporate strategy and alliances. His first position with the company was as its head of strategy, responsible for leading strategic management processes and development activities. The fact that McDermott possesses this strategic planning background, I think, underscores the strategic nature of the CIO role at Xerox. For more on McDermott, check out the press release. After just eight months on the job, Stephen Heinmiller was officially promoted on Jan. 1 from VP of IT to SVP of IT at Tuesday Morning Corp., a closeout home furnishings retailer. Heinmiller, 56, succeeds Richard Nance in the top IT spot at the Dallas-based company. Nance retired as CIO at the end of December 2006 after 13 years with the company. Heinmiller reports to Michael Marchetti, Tuesday Morning’s EVP and COO. Prior to joining Tuesday Morning in April 2006, he worked for MBNA as its first vice president of application development. No stranger to retail, Heinmiller previously worked for Foot Locker, Montgomery Ward, Melville, Filene’s and Federated Department Stores. Christine Herb has risen to the CIO ranks. The former director of IT applications for Nationwide Insurance landed a job with Columbia Bancorp as its EVP and CIO (a new position for the Dalles, Ore.-based company.) Her worked for Nationwide for six years. Previously, she was a project manager for Fed Meyer/Kroger, a planning and quality assurance manager for General Cinema Corp., a systems analyst for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mass., a programmer for Boston Properties and an operations analyst for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance. On Jan. 2, Behringer Harvard announced that Kent Barner joined the Dallas-based real estate investment company as its VP and CIO. He most recently served as CIO of Prentice Properties, where he worked for 22 years. Transaction processing provider TRX hired Brian Beard as its new VP of IT. He most recently worked for Recall Corp. as its VP and CIO. At Recall, he introduced key performance metrics for IT and modernized business systems. Earlier in his career, he held IT leadership positions with General Electric and Toyota Motor Sales. Related content feature We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well As products become more based in software, CIO roles will increasingly align with CIOs who’ve been selling software for decades, like Jim Palermo, CIO of open source solution provider Red Hat. By Martha Heller Nov 15, 2023 7 mins CIO Software Deployment Marketing feature New US CIO appointments, November 2023 Congratulations to these 'movers and shakers' recently hired or promoted into a new chief information officer role. By Martha Heller Nov 08, 2023 9 mins CIO Careers IT Leadership interview How Huber spurs innovation in a historically decentralized business With IT/OT convergence, digital technologies, and the growing importance of data, Huber CIO Dwain Wilcox leads the creation of a cross-functional, cross-business innovation engine. By Martha Heller Aug 23, 2023 6 mins CIO Enterprise Cloud Management interview CIO Ryan Snyder on the benefits of interpreting data as a layer cake Thermo Fisher Scientific CIO Ryan Snyder discusses a tiered model used to turn data into value at the $40 billion laboratory equipment and instrument maker. By Martha Heller Aug 02, 2023 8 mins CIO Data Architecture Data Governance 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