Dell and CAI recognize India’s Best CIOs

Dell, in partnership with the CIO Association of India (CAI) today announced the winners of the second edition of ‘the industry’s only democratized awards selection — “India’s best CIOs”‘ as stated in a press release.

VijaySethi, CIO, Hero MotoCorp Ltd. and T.G. Dhandapani, CIO, TVS Motors were awarded the first two places respectively in the community-driven CIO Award Series. AjitManocha, CIO, Syngene International Ltd. (Biocon) and SuneelAradhye, Group CIO, RPG Group were jointly awarded the third place.  This year also saw a new category ‘India’s most eminent CIO’ which was conferred to Dr. J.S. Sodhi, CIO, Amity Group. The selections were based on online voting by the Indian CIO community that had commenced on February 10^th.

The Grand Finale of the second edition of the awards took place last Thursday at the Hyatt Regency, Mumbai in an august gathering of the top 50 CIOs of the country, selected based on peer-to-peer nominations. This year saw a 50 % increase in participation with 449 CIOs polling 1334 votes for their peers across industries in India. The theme of the event was ‘Winning through Transformative Leadership’’ and the awards were presented by SouravGanguly, ex-Captain of the Indian Cricket team. The other keynote speaker at the event was Arvind Gupta, National Head, Information and Technology of the BharatiyaJanata Party.

Vijay Sethi, VP & CIO at Hero MotoCorp Ltd. who was awarded the title ‘India’s Best CIO’ for the second year in a row said: “Being awarded the Best CIO for the second consecutive edition is a very humbling experience. Continuous IT innovation to ensure that IT investments deliver high value consistently to the business especially in today’s times of a very demanding business landscape is the key differentiating factor of a successful IT team.”

Tapan ‘Ananta’ Garg, Founder & CEO, CAI said: “Often the work of the CIO goes unnoticed in the larger scheme of things, bucketed in to the category of ‘taken for granted’ in an Organisation. Our vision for the Best CIO awards was to felicitate deserving CIOs and encourage them to   take their respective organisations through the next leap of growth. The participation from the community has been overwhelming and reflective of the support that exists in the community.”