2023 CIO of the Year Award Winners

Past winners include:

2023 - Kevin D. Rooney (CIO+), CAO & CIO, West Monroe Partners; Jason Birnbaum (CIO Innovator), CIO, United Airlines; Maryann Byrdak (CIO Impact), CIO, Feeding America; Raj Sampoornam (CIO Impact), SVP & CIO, Byline Bank; Angela O'Banion (CIO of the Year), CIO, Cook County Health

2022- Janet Zelenka (CIO+), EVP, CIO & CFO, Stericycle; Kevin Lowell (CIO Innovator), Senior Vice President, Information Technology, US Cellular; Amir Arooni (CIO of the Year), EVP & CIO, Discover Financial Services

2021-Tracy Elmblad (CIO+), Chief Operating Officer & CIO, Hinshaw & Culbertson; Bill Blount (CIO Innovator), CIO, VelocityEHS; Scott Morgan (CIO of the Year), VP, BusDev & Technology, Dental Lead & CIO, Dearborn Group

2020-Jill Albin-Hill (CIO+), CIO, Dominican University; Sean Katz (CIO Innovator), CIO, Vitality USA and Heather Nelson, CIO, UChicago Medicine.

2019 - Danielle DuMerer, Chief Information Officer & Commissioner of the Department of Innovation and Technology, City of Chicago (CIO of the Year); Kevin Glynn, CIO DSC Logistics (CIO Innovator of the Year); Wendy Woodward, Chief Information and Campus Services Officer (CICSO), Wheaton College (CIO+ of the Year)

2018 - Ophir Trigalo, CIO and Vice Provost, Illinois Institute of Technology
2017 – Glenn Schneider, CIO of Discover Financial
2016 – Eric Yablonka, VP & CIO, University of Chicago Medical Center and Biological Sciences
2015 – Sonny Garg, VP and Chief Innovation Officer, Exelon (Sonny Garg company)
2014 – Yvonne Scott, CIO, Crowe Horwath LLP
2014 – Brian Hedberg, CIO, Healthcare Service Corporation (HCSC)
2013 – Sanjib Sahoo, CTO, OptionsMonster Holdings, Inc.
2012 – No Award, the process was moved from the Fall of 2012 to the Spring of 2013
2011 – Stewart H. McCutcheon CIO/CPO at Ecolabs/Nalco Company
2010 – Susan Malisch CIO at Loyola University Chicago
2009 – John M. Hinshaw CIO at The Boeing Company
2008 – Timothy R. Zoph CIO at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
2007 – Patricia Morrison CIO at Motorola
2006 – Cathie Brune CIO at Allstate Insurance
2005 – John Golden CIO at C N A Financial
2004 – Patrick Moroney CIO at Health Care Services Corp (BCBS)
2003 – William Farrow CIO at Chicago Board Of Trade (CBOT)
2002 – John Fisher CIO at Smith Bucklin
2001 – John Moon CIO at Baxter Healthcare
2000 – Jean Holley CIO at USG
1999 – Lloyd Love CIO at Amcol International
1998 – Cathie Kozik CIO at Tellabs
1997 – Larry Buettner CIO at First National Bank of Chicago
1996 – Terry McKillop CIO at Rittenhouse Paper
1995 – Mark Barry CIO at TTX