Peter High

Jay Ferro has been the CIO of the American Cancer Society (ACS) for three years, but the fight against cancer has been a passion of his for longer. His life was touched by the disease when he lost his wife to cervical cancer in January of 2007. He established a non-profit organization, Priscilla’s Promise, in […]

Richie Etwaru is a man in a hurry. He took on his first CIO role in his late 20s. He would hold that same title at the divisional level at Barclay’s bank in his early 30s. In 2007, he began a successful tenure at UBS, rising first to the role of Chief Technology Officer of […]

Barry Perkins is the chief operating officer for UK General Insurance and Shared Services, which includes commercial and personal insurance. He handles all the big decisions on run costs, strategic initiatives and technology, as well as overseeing the provisioning of management information. CIO Insight: What are your primary areas of responsibility as the COO of […]

Asbury Automotive is a $5.3 billion automotive retailer based in Duluth, Ga. For years, the more than a 90 dealerships that make up the company had very little interaction with IT. Part of the issue was that corporate IT was a relatively immature function at the company. Prior to his ascension to the CIO role, […]

Jay Vijayan, CIO for Tesla Motors, is responsible for the company’s business applications, infrastructure, network, systems operations and security. Learn how he helped IT evolve into a global organization that is a key enabler supporting the growth and success of the company’s business. CIO Insight: Jay, you’ve been the CIO of Tesla for two years, […]

By Peter High André Mendes started working at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) as CIO in late 2009. In doing so, he joined a global multimedia organization and, like other businesses in that field, technology was and continues to be central to the mission of the organization. The BBG is an independent federal government […]

By Peter High Gary Marshall, CIO of SunGard Availability Services, believes the CIOs of technology companies should be their company’s first customers. These CIOs may seem to be in the unenviable position of being surrounded by people who think they can do the CIO’s job better than he or she can. However, Marshall makes the […]

By Peter High When Rob Lux joined the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, popularly known as Freddie Mac, in October of 2010, the U.S. government-sponsored enterprise was already starting to claw back from the depths of the economic malaise that plagued the mortgage industry. Like a lot of CIOs then, Lux had to operate with […]

By Peter High When Becky Blalock entered the U.S. workforce more than 30 years ago, there weren’t many female leaders for her to emulate. As a result, Blalock had to create her own career path, starting at Southern Company, the third-largest utility in the world, where she rose through the ranks to become a senior […]

By Peter High When Ken Piddington joined Global Partners as the firm’s first-ever CIO five years ago, the energy supply business was already a Fortune 500 company. In the four years since, revenues have tripled, but his IT department remains lean. A key to his success has been better vendor management in general, and better software vendor […]

By Peter High Gary Wimberly is the CIO of Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit management organizations in the U.S. As dramatically as the company has grown, Wimberly has found that selecting better vendors and driving them to become trusted advisors has been a path toward better throughput and innovation. It also has allowed […]

By Peter High Filippo Passerini, CIO and Group President of Global Business Services of Procter & Gamble, discusses the approach he and his team have taken to get better, more accurate data analysis into the right executives’ hands in a timely fashion. The result is a remarkable track record of innovation. IN SUMMARY WHO: Filippo […]