The Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) announced the winners of the CIO of the Year® Awards this morning at an Awards Ceremony held at the Cobb Energy Centre.  The CIOs of the Year® were:  Randy Fox of GE Energy in the Global Category, Barbara Kunkel of Troutman Sanders in the Enterprise Category, Bob Arnett of Cobb Energy in the Corporate Category, and Dan Brown of Credibility in the Nonprofit Category.  This year a fifth award category, the Lifetime Achievement Award was introduced and Sandra Hofmann was recognized as the inaugural recipient.

The Global category represents a company with 2,500 IT users and a multinational operation, the Enterprise category represents over 1,000 IT users, the Corporate category represents up to 1,000 IT users, and the Nonprofit category represents any not for profit organization, school, or government agency.

Since 1998, the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) CIO of the Year® Award Event has recognized excellence among C-level executives in the IT/ IS space.  The winners of this event were announced this morning and honored at an exclusive ceremony comprised of the “Who’s Who” of the Georgia technology community. This year’s finalists were a group of highly qualified nominees representing the leading companies from within the local business community.

The GCLA is proud to recognize and thank the following sponsors who have made the 2010 CIO of the Year® Awards possible:

Gold sponsors: NIIT Technologies, Inc, SunGard Availability Services, Polycom, Inc., Recall Corporation, and for the ninth year of continuous support - Spencer Stuart.

Silver sponsors: First Data, PricewaterhouseCoopers, OnX Enterprise Solutions Inc, Presidio Networked Solutions, Patni Americas, Inc., MATRIX, Qwest Communications, Tribridge, Invest Northern Ireland, and Wipro Technologies.

Bronze sponsors: The Intersect Group, Pyramid Consulting, Inc, AutoTrader.com, The Coca-Cola Company, Verizon Wireless, LexisNexis, Blackbaud, CDW, Avaya, Mahindra Satyam, Tata Consultancy Services, Intel Americas, Accenture, Symantec Corporation, Consonus Technologies, NetApp, PGi, CA Technologies, Aqua Blue Creative Development and SIM Atlanta.

Underwriters: Deloitte, IBM, Intellinet, Microsoft, Morris Manning & Martin 

About Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA)

The GCLA is the preeminent professional organization for Georgia's information technology leaders. Founded in 2003, its membership is comprised exclusively of chief information officers or individuals in equivalent positions at companies and organizations throughout the state.

About TechLINKS

Since 1998 TechLINKS has served the technology industry in Georgia by developing business opportunities for technology companies through award-winning media services and popular executive events. TechLINKS serves as event manager for the Georgia CIO of the Year® Awards which is the annual program of the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA).