We didn’t miss much while I was on vacation Thursday and Friday of last week. In fact, we didn’t miss anything. 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: Steve Cox officially joined Coremetrics as the web analytics provider’s vice president of operations today. He reports to Mark Resnick, COO and CFO of the San Mateo, Calif.-based company. Cox comes to Coremetrics from Dresser, a global provider of energy infrastructure equipment, where he held the roles of corporate director of global business systems and director of global IT for Dresser’s Wayne business unit. In those positions, Cox was responsible for implementing and managing all corporate systems including Oracle’s e-business suite enterprise applications, corporate treasury systems, web services and data management solutions. Prior to Dresser, Cox was vice president of information systems and technology and CIO for video conferencing provider VTEL. Internap Network Services elected the beautifully coiffed Patricia L. Higgins (pictured at left; I wish I could get my hair to look like that), a one-time Alcoa CIO, vice chair of its board of directors. Higgins is a former president and CEO of Switch and Data and a former chairman and CEO of The Research Board. She also serves on Delta Airlines’ and Visteon’s boards of directors. MTC Holdings, a cargo handler (aka stevedore) and terminal operator based in Oakland, Calif., hired Larry Grotte as its first CIO. One of his primary responsibilities will be to work with MTC’s business units to identify and develop efficient business processes. I don’t have much detail on exactly what Grotte did before joining MTC. All I know is that he worked as a C-level executive and management consultant for Fortune 500 and technology companies in Silicon Valley. 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