CIO.com is pleased to announce that its first-ever blog, Movers & Shakers, will be re-launching this week. Long-time CIO contributor Martha Heller will be keeping readers apprised of CIO job changes on a weekly basis. Heller is intimately familiar with the CIO role and with IT leaders’ comings and goings: She currently serves as managing director of the IT leadership practice at executive search firm ZRG. Before she joined ZRG, Heller worked for CXO Media as an online editor and as the founder of the CIO Best Practice Exchange, the precursor to the CIO Executive Council, which she also co-founded. I can’t think of a better time than right now to re-launch Movers & Shakers. Every day we’re inundated with bad news about the economy: Another company announces a layoff. Another bank needs a bailout. Unemployment and foreclosure rates climb. But stories about businesses beating the odds and people pursuing lucrative new professional opportunities—stories that give us hope—are few and far between. I hope Movers & Shakers, with its news of CIOs earning promotions and landing new jobs, will fill some of that void and will reassure you that it is possible to find a job, even in this recession. If you’ve recently changed jobs or received a promotion, or if you know of an IT leader who’s been hired (or fired), let Heller know. Her e-mail address is mheller at zrgpartners dot com. –Meridith Levinson 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