The CIO ORBIE Award recognizes CIOs who have shown excellence in technology leadership in state of Ohio. Congratulations to this year’s award recipients!
CIO ORBIE nominees & finalists are honored at a series of executive events, beginning with the Nominee Event and ending with the CIO ORBIE Awards.
Ohio CIO ORBIE Awards sponsors are highly valued partners invited by local CIOs to experience the unique opportunity of recognizing the senior technology leadership of top organizations in Ohio through a series of year-long events.
| 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Pre-Event Networking |
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | VIP Reception |
| 9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | CIO ORBIE® Awards |
Tony Saldanha is a globally recognized expert and thought leader in Global Business Services (GBS) and Digital Technology. He ran Procter & Gamble's famed multi-billion-dollar GBS and IT operations in every region across the world during a 27-year career there. Tony has over three decades of international business expertise in the US, Europe, and Asia. Tony advises about 20 of the Fortune 100 organizations on digital strategy at the board or CXO levels. Tony is CEO and co-founder of Inixia, the global standards and certification body for the Shared Services industry. Tony's experiences include GBS design and operations, CIO positions, acquisitions and divestitures, outsourcing, disruptive innovation, and creation of new business models. Tony is currently President of Transformant, a consulting organization on digital and shared services strategy. He is also a founder of two blockchain and AI companies, and an adviser to venture capital companies. He was named on Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Professionals list in 2013. His book titled Why Digital Transformations Fail was released globally in July 2019 and ranked #1 on Amazon’s New Releases for Organizational Change, listed on publisher Berrett-Koehler’s best-sellers for July 2019, and recommended by various publishing forums like CEO-Reads, Book-Pal, CEO Library, and others. Forbes contributor Michelle Greenwald called it the “best business book ever that you’re yet to read”. Tony’s latest book, co-written with Filippo Passerini is titled Revolutionizing Business Operations. Released in September 2023, it was ranked among the top 10 business books of 2023 by CEOWorld.
