Plus: Viyya Technologies Hires Former NYPD Detective as CIO Aluminum producer Alcoa appointed its CIO, Rudi Huber (pictured at left), to president of its European region last Friday. In his new position, Huber, 52, is responsible for coordinating HR, media, legal and government affairs for Alcoa’s operations in Europe and Russia. He replaces Ricardo Belda, who is retiring from Alcoa after a 38 year tenure at the end of 2006. Huber continues to report to Joseph Muscari, Alcoa’s EVP and CFO, and will be based at the company’s headquarters in Geneva. Huber joined Alcoa in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1981 as a credit manager. He moved up the ranks inside the company’s finance department, serving in a variety of different positions around the world. In 2000, Huber was named CIO. Yesterday, Richard Perine joined Viyya Technologies, a developer of a web-based application for managing information, as its CTO and CIO. Perine comes to the West Caldwell, N.J.-based company from the New York City Police Department (NYPD), where he most recently served as a project manager in its Office of Technology and Systems Development. During his 20-year tenure with the NYPD, Perine also served as a police officer, detective and sergeant, and spent the early part of his career in the Vice and Narcotics divisions of the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau. Lord only knows what kinds of characters he ran into in that position. Wonder if he had any encounters with the Gotti clan? Perine pioneered computer investigations within the NYPD while investigating Vice cases as a detective. He created and commanded the first Computer Crimes unit within the department in 1995 and later implemented and managed the first electronic case management system for the NYPD.Community Bancorp, a community bank holding company based in Las Vegas, hired Charles McCluer as its new SVP and CIO. McCluer most recently worked for Nevada First Credit Union as its CIO. Varsity Group moved its CFO into a new position. Jack Benson is now the company’s CIO and SVP of business development. 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