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2021 CTO of the Year: José V. Martínez

José V. Martínez, OneAmerica Financial Partners senior vice president and chief information officer, studied mechanical engineering during undergrad and graduate school at Georgia Tech but learned computing and IT on the side.

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2021 CTO of the Year: Rick Elliott

GEO Foundation Director of IT Services Rick Elliott has played a role in opening five schools and has helped move offices or school buildings several times as the education organization has outgrown space.

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2021 CTO of the Year: Dewand Neely

Chief Operating Officer Dewand Neely stands out at Eleven Fifty Academy “for his thoughtful business acumen, even keel … and on his fairness and respect he shows for others,” according to his boss, Scott Jones.

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2021 CTO of the Year: Tracy Barnes

Indiana Office of Technology chief information officer Major organization achievements during tenure The Indiana Office of Technology, founded in 2005, serves as state government’s central technology services provider for about 100 state entities. Gov. Eric Holcomb named Tracy Barnes the office’s chief information officer in March 2020, just as COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were taking effect. […]

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2021 CTO of the Year: Laura Larimer

Laura Larimer was the information technology officer for Indianapolis Public Schools for six years before leaving in June to start her own education and health information technology consulting business.

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2021 CTO of the Year: Paul DeFonce

Paul DeFonce, senior vice president of IT at Duke Realty Corp., has worked at the company for 26 years, first as an accounting team member who worked closely with the company’s information technology group.

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2021 CTO of the Year: Cory Palmer

Cory Palmer, chief information officer and senior vice president of technology at Citizens Bank, has been involved with every major technology change the bank has experienced over the past 22 years.

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2020 CTO of the Year: Warren Lenard

Lenard’s team has focused on improving dealership reporting, which is key to a dealership’s day-to-day functionality, by creating dashboards that replace unreliable legacy systems with easily accessible and timely data and analytics.

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2020 CTO of the Year: Tom Braden

More than a year before the pandemic struck, Braden led the development of best-in-class remote connectivity infrastructure that allowed his team to easily shift to working from home.

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2020 CTO of the Year: Jared Adams

Adams, the senior vice president of product engineering at Jobvite, has led the company’s recent advancements on the artificial intelligence front with machine learning and sentiment analysis, as well as analytics.

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2020 CTO of the Year: Tom Fisher

Fisher has been instrumental in migrating KAR Global’s core technology platforms to the cloud, including providing real-time live-stream auctions, a capability that took on added importance with the onset of COVID-19.

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