BEA Systems’ SVP and CIO Rhonda Hocker was elected chairman of Valaran’s board of directors. Hocker has served as a director of the Princeton, N.J.-based software provider since August 2004. (Hocker’s deputy CIO at BEA, Dale Slaughenhaupt, was selected for CIO’s Ones to Watch honor earlier this year.) In other news of board appointments, one-time Microsoft CIO John Connors was named to the board of Certus Software. This is his second board appointment in two months, having been appointed to Jobster’s board of directors in July.Biotech Business Week reported that Mark Boxer was appointed president and CEO of consumer-driven health plans, enterprise services and Medicare government business at WellPoint. During Boxer’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. 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