Everything Channel Announces the CIO 50 West Winners

Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, today announced the CIO 50 West winners, a new recognition that honors IT executives for their influence, innovation and ability to collaborate with integrators and vendors. The awards were presented at Everything Channel's Midsize Enterprise Summit West 2009, which took place at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, CA.

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  The CIO 50 West winners include:
  1. Mohinder Chopra, SVP & CIO, OSI Systems
  2. David Hudson, VP IT, Keenan & Associates
  3. Tracy Cleeton, Director of IT, Saga Communications
  4. Keenan Lersch, Technology Manager, American Railcar Industries
  5. Thomas Smith, CTO, PSRS/PEERS of Missouri
  6. Brad Cackler, IT Director, Micro Power Electronics
  7. Dave McDowell, Director of IT, West Liberty Foods
  8. Greg McLean, Director of Technical Services, Green Bay Packaging
  9. Christopher Holda, Director, IT, Integrated Health Associates
  10. Randy Nye, IT Manager, Oak Harbor Freight Lines, Inc.
  11. Rita Lazar-Tippe, IS Manager, Edmonton Journal
  12. Michael Gauthier, CIO, IMTT
  13. Michelle George, First VP - Application Development, Securities
      America
  14. Nathan Church, VP & IT Manager, Columbia River Bank
  15. Dave Ploch, CIO/Director, IT, Novus International
  16. Greg Katers, Director of IT, Green Bay Packaging
  17. David Chin, Director of IT, Stanford Hotels Corporation
  18. David Price, IT Director, Resource Management, Inc.
  19. Michael Brown, VP of IS, Peter Piper Pizza
  20. Neil Stewart, Director Technical Operations, QuikTrip Corp
  21. Dirk Anderson, VP Technology, C R England
  22. Paul Dupree, CIO, Assistant VP of I.S., Asbury College
  23. Bruce Hagen, VP Corporate IS, Bemis Manufacturing Co
  24. Robert Bence, VP, Technology, Southwest Credit Systems
  25. Larry Freed, Vice President & CIO, Atrium Companies, Inc.
  26. Seth Hansen, VP - IT, Daktronics, Inc
  27. David Cresswell, Director, IT Planning & Strategy, British Columbia
      Institute of Technology
  28. Lawrence Frederick, CIO, University of the Pacific
  29. Raman Krishnaswami, Director, IT, Healthcare Benefit Trust
  30. John DeLuca, Director of Information Technology, Hydranautics
  31. Craig Crosby, Director, Information Services, Procopio, Cory,
      Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
  32. Adam Farkas, VP IT, Crown Media
  33. Leonardo Imana, Director of Technology, Adelman Travel Group
  34. Sergey Bushlyar, CIO, IT Director, Paul Capital Partners
  35. Neil Ferguson, Technology Director, Orrick, Herrington, & Sutclife LLP
  36. Peter Mills, Executive Director, Information Technology, Canadian
      Tourism Commission
  37. David Cropper, CIO, Mamiye Brothers
  38. Susan Faulkner, Director, Information Systems and Technology, Bluewave
      Energy
  39. Eric Vlam, Director of Information Systems, Equipment Depot
  40. Michael Gibbons, Director, Northeastern State University
  41. Aaron Bukhari, CIO & CSO, SNC Lavalin Nuclear Inc.
  42. Chris Daly, Director, Infrastructure & Application Support,
      Corporation Service Company
  43. Niel Nickolaisen, CIO, Headwaters, Inc.
  44. Lawrence Frederick, CIO, University of the Pacific
  45. Carl Gammon, Director, Information Systems, Minntech Corporation
  46. James Fielder, Vice President Information Technology, Farm Credit
      Services of Illinois
  47. Matthew Sharp, Director of I.T., David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  48. Brian Mackay, Associate VP and CIO, Thompson Rivers University
  49. Nick Barakat, IT Manager, Clean Energy Fuels Corp

  50. Gary Allen, Chief Technology Officer, Amarillo Independent School
      District

The professionals comprising the CIO 50 West were chosen for their leadership in utilizing technology to help increase corporate efficiencies, drive revenue and achieve other key business goals within their midsize company or organization. In particular, Everything Channel looked for executives with IT decision-making ability and strong partnerships with integrators and consultants. The size of the IT budget and the progress of ongoing IT projects were also considered. Based on these criteria, Everything Channel's editorial and content team identified today's leading customers.

"We are pleased to honor these IT executives for their influence, innovation and ability to collaborate with integrators and vendors," said, Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director for Everything Channel editorial. "Congratulations to the CIO 50 West winners on this well-deserved achievement."

The Midsize Enterprise Summit brought senior IT Executives from midsize businesses together with industry analysts and leading and emerging vendors. The focus -- enabling strategic IT Decision-Making -- embraced midmarket-specific issues, trends and solutions from a horizontal and vertical industry-specific perspective. The business-intensive format included analyst-led sessions, vendor-led world premiere and private boardroom appointments, a showcase of exhibits, and networking functions.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for managing and accelerating technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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  Everything Channel
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