Information Technology Awards
Awards in these categories were presented at The 17th Annual American Business Awards® banquet on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Learn about the judging and awards process here.
Also listed here are the Stevie winners in the Reimagining Business for the Digital Age categories, sponsored by HCL Technologies.
Information Technology Department of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
KDG, Allentown, PA: KDG's IT Department: Growing, Educating, and Transforming in 2018
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNERS:
Stratosphere Networks, Evanston, IL: Stratosphere Networks’ IT Department
BMC Software, Houston, TX: BMC IT: Setting Excellence in Benchmarks
Information Technology Team of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
TIAA, Charlotte, NC: TIAA Refactor Approach
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
Reltio, Redwood Shores, CA: Going Beyond the “IT Crowd”
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNERS:
Camp Bow Wow, Westminster, CO: Camp Bow Wow's Data Dawg 2.0
Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA: Mini Powerhouse Order Processing Layer Team
Department of Labor Office of the Chief Information Officer, Washington, DC: Directorate of Infrastructure Services
FIS, Jacksonville, FL: FIS' CIO Technology Team
IBM, Ehningen, BW, Germany: Sales Insight based on Real Time Streamed Data
Jeunesse Global, Orlando, FL: Jeunesse® IT Team Provides Award-Winning Solutions
John Hancock Financial Services, Boston, MA: John Hancock Robotics Center of Excellence (CoE)
Information Technology Executive of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
VirtualHealth, New York, NY: Jen Rudman, CTO, Healthcare Technology Innovator
SILVER STEVIE® WINNERS:
ARIIX, Bountiful, UT: Wenhan Zhang, Chief Information Officer and Founder
FIS, Jacksonville, FL: Ido Gileadi, Chief Information Officer
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNERS:
Amdocs, Chesterfield, MO: Anthony Goonetilleke, President
Department of Labor Office of the Chief Information Officer, Washington, DC: Gundeep Ahluwalia, CIO of DOL OCIO
Quantam Solutions, Lansing, MI: Richard Van Staten, Chief Executive Officer
Technical Professional of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Lucid, Santa Clara, CA: Sheldon Fernandes, Sr. Computer Vision Engineer and Firmware Engineer
SILVER STEVIE® WINNERS:
Intueor Consulting Inc., Irvine, CA: Vijay Pandey, Director of Technology, Technical Professional Par excellence
UST Global, Aliso Viejo, CA: Adnan Masood, Chief Architect of AI and Machine Learning
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNERS:
Apache Cassandra, Forest Hill, MD: Dinesh Joshi, Senior Software Engineer & Open Source Data Guru
Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting, Oceanside, CA: Joey D'Antoni, Principal Consultant
Global Tax Network, Maple Grove, MN: Scott Jonell , Director, Technology - Global Tax Network
LABUR, Boston, MA: Ryan Soucy, Data-driven technology professional delivering exceptional business results for IT firm
Opmantek, San Francisco, CA: Mark Henry, Senior System Engineer
Reimagining Business for the Digital Age Categories 
sponsored by HCL America Inc.
Only nominees with a special sponsor-supplied promotion code could submit nominations to the following categories.
Leader in Transforming Customer Engagement
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Radiology Partners, Denver, CO: Denis Zerr, CIO (ex CIO, Catholic Health Initiatives)
SILVER STEVIE® WINNERS:
Direct Energy, Calgary, AB Canada: Lori Armstrong, Senior Commercial Director, Direct Energy Regulated Services
Verizon, Irving, TX: Latheef Syed, Director, Advance Analytics, AI, BI, RPA
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNERS:
PENFED Credit Union, Alexandria, VA: John R Kelly, EVP, Consumer Banking
Excellence in Transforming Business
GOLD STEVIE® WINNERS:
The Estée Lauder Companies, New York, NY: Michael W. Smith, Chief Information Officer
Lineage Logistics LLC, Irvine, CA: Sudarsan V. Thattai, Chief Information Officer
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Johnson and Johnson, Raritan, NJ: Mrunal Saraiya, Sr. Director - Data, Automation and Advance Technology Incubation
Digital Transformer of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
T-Mobile Inc., Bellevue, WA: Cody Sanford, EVP and CIO
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
Quest Diagnostics, Secaucus, NJ: Brian F LaPenna, Vice President, Software Engineering & Design
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Centrica, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom: Audrey Wilson Weir, Global Digital Transformation Director
Leadership in Operational Excellence
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Vonage, Holmdel, NJ: Jay Patel, SVP Product Portfolio & Planning
SILVER STEVIE® WINNERS:
The Golub Corporation, Albany, NY: Leo Taylor, EVP, Administration at Price Chopper Supermarkets
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNERS:
Allergan, Madison, NJ: Joseph Fleming, VP, IT R&D
Sempra Energy, San Diego, CA:Ben Gordon, Vice President, Technology Operations & Infrastructure Management
USAA, San Antonio, TX: Mitchel Butikofer, Vice President
Leadership in NextGen Technology
GOLD STEVIE® WINNERS:
AIG, Wolcott, CT: Patrick Nadeau, VP Architecture & Software Modernization
WAWA, Inc., Philadelphia, PA: John K Collier, Chief Information Officer
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Durham, NC: James W. Song, Vice President, Technology
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Olin Corporation, Chicago, IL: Dianna Griffon, Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure
Transformational Sourcing Relations Leadership
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
BMO Financial Group, Toronto, ON Canada: Matthew Lombardi, Head of External Talent Solutions,
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, KS: Michael J. Ginsberg, Director, IT Sourcing
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNERS:
ISG, Stamford, CT: Jeffrey Augustin, Partner
Purchasing Power LLC, Atlanta, GA: Prakash Muthukrishnan, CTO, Tumara Jackson, VP, Craig Konieczka, VP, Brian DaPrano, VP, & Jagdeep Bedi , Sr. Director
Digital Executive of the Year
HONORARY GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX:Jason Riggan, VP, Chief Information Officer