Congratulations to the 2023 Bay Area ORBIE winners!
Leadership
Rajat Taneja
Super Global
Archana "Archie" Deskus
Global
Sharon Mandell
Large Enterprise
Michael Pfeffer
Enterprise
Sriram Thiagarajan
Large Corporate
Trevor Schulze
CISO
Selim Aissi
Super Global Finalists
Archana "Archie"
Deskus
Jyothi
Gorti
Venky
Rangachari
Cynthia
Stoddard
Global Finalists
Alvina
Antar
Chris
Conrad
Ken
Cushman
Sharon
Mandell
Pranav
Shahi
Naveen
Zutshi
Large Enterprise Finalists
Sunny
Azadeh
Datta
Junnarkar
Michael
Pfeffer
Archana
Rao
Michael
Robinson
To
Tsang
Enterprise Finalists
John
Abel
Bruce
Burroughs
Praniti
Lakhwara
Ajay
Sabhlok
Sriram
Thiagarajan
Large Corporate Finalists
Brad
Bell
Colin
Carmichael
Sanjay
Chandra
Trevor
Schulze
Saket
Srivastava
Namo
Tiwari
CISO Finalists
Selim
Aissi
Colin
Anderson
Eddie
Borrero
Krishnan
Chellakarai
Mukul
Kumar
Hemanta
Swain
2023 Keynote
Ralph Loura , CIO
Ralph Loura is an accomplished leader who provides support, guidance and strategy to businesses, boards and individual leaders. He is known for a strong combination of technology expertise and business acumen having led large and small teams across several industries and having advised early and late stage startups and large public companies alike.Ralph’s dynamic career spans multiple industries where he consistently generated business value in complex and varied environments. He has broad experience across Tech, Life Sciences, e-Commerce and CPG business models. He is particularly known for creating and developing great teams. He has been a catalyst for positive changes over the course of his career and has led several IT organizations through times of significant changewhere time and again he has demonstrated his ability in adapting/maturing technology organizations to solve business issues while managing costs and risks. Ralph’s CIO career includes roles such as SVP CIO for Lumentum. SVP CTO for Rodan and Fields, SVP CIO for HP, SVP CIO for Clorox, SVP CIO for Medicis, CIO for Symbol Technologies and Director roles at Cisco, DE Shaw and Company, Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Leadership Award Recipient
Rajat Taneja, Visa
Rajat Taneja is President of Technology for Visa, responsible for the company's technology innovation and investment strategy, product engineering, global IT and operations infrastructure. He joined Visa in November 2013. Prior to joining Visa, Mr. Taneja was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Electronic Arts Inc., from October 2011 until November 2013, responsible for platform engineering, data center operations and IT supporting the company's global customer base. From 1996 until 2011, he worked at Microsoft Corporation, including most recently as the Corporate Vice President, Commerce Division, in 2011 and the General Manager and Corporate Vice President, Online Services Division, from 2007 to 2011. Mr. Taneja served on the board of directors of Ellie Mae from June 2015 until April 2019. He currently serves on the board of directors of MSCI.