CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- The 13th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
today announced that David Neitz,
CIO at CDM Smith is the recipient of the prestigious 2016 MIT Sloan
CIO Leadership Award. The award honors Chief Information Officers
(CIOs) who lead their organizations to deliver business value and
innovative use of IT in exceptional ways.
"It is with great honor that the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Awards
Committee presents the 2016 CIO Leadership Award to David Neitz," said Dr. George Westerman, Principal Research Scientist
in the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Co-Chair of the
Award Program. "David exemplifies innovation and customer value
with technologies vital to thriving in the digital economy,
positioning him as the leader for this award."
Mr. Neitz is the CIO at CDM Smith, a leading engineering and
construction firm that provides lasting and integrated solutions in
water, environment, transportation, energy and facilities to public
and private clients worldwide. He is responsible for all aspects of
the firm's business technology practice, including a transformative
Digital Capital strategy that creates value and delivers business
outcomes. His focus on innovation has resulted in the application
of new technologies and processes that capture digital assets and
provide new visualization and collaboration capabilities, resulting
in superior results for the firm's clients.
"Being named the MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award Winner is truly
an honor for the entire CDM Smith team," said Neitz. "It is a
testament to the business technology team and the business partners
who diligently collaborate to deliver exceptional results for our
clients using Digital Capital to transform the architecture,
engineering and construction industry. Moving to the cloud didn't
just make models faster. It changed the way our company works with
clients. Designers, constructors and clients can now collaborate to
see, in real time, the effects of their ideas for costs, risks or
construction time."
Dr. Westerman presented the award to Mr. Neitz at the
pre-Symposium dinner at the Exchange Conference Center in
Boston, MA on the evening of
May 17th. Other finalists for the
honor included Suresh Kumar of BNY
Mellon (NYSE: BK), Jeanne Lieb of FM
Global, and Steve Phillips of Avnet,
Inc., (NYSE: AVT).
About the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
The MIT Sloan CIO
Symposium is the premier global conference for CIOs and digital
business executives to become more effective leaders. In one day,
CIOs and senior IT executives explore enterprise technology
innovations, business practices and receive actionable information
that enables them to meet the challenges of today and the future.
The Symposium offers a unique learning environment by bringing
together the academic thought leadership of MIT with the in-the-trenches experience of leading,
global CIOs and industry experts. The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is
organized and developed by the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association,
the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE), and the MIT Sloan
Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). Visit
www.mitcio.com for more information and registration.
Editor's Note:
Journalists interested in learning
more or speaking with the Award winner and finalists should contact
Kevin Jordan (kevin@warnerpr.com
617-935-1930), or Sadie Smith
(sadie@warnerpr.com 717-298-1865), Warner Communications.
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