Calvin Rhodes Receives CIO of the Year ORBIE Award

Georgia CIO Calvin Rhodes was honored with the 2018 CIO of the Year ORBIE Award for the nonprofit/public sector. The ORBIE awards, sponsored by the Georgia CIO Leadership Association, are widely considered to be the nation’s leading recognition program for technology executives.

In choosing award recipients, the association considered the size and scope of the nominees’ responsibilities, their leadership and management effectiveness, the business value created by technology innovation in their organization, and their engagement in the technology field and community.

Mr. Rhodes was named Georgia CIO and Georgia Technology Authority executive director in 2011 and is currently the nation’s longest-serving active state CIO. He has led the state’s public/private IT transformation and consolidation initiative, which has successfully strengthened cybersecurity, modernized IT infrastructure and networks, improved the reliability of information systems, and increased transparency in the state’s IT enterprise. He also has overseen construction and partner coordination for the $100 million Georgia Cyber Center in Augusta.

The Georgia CIO Leadership Association is a professional association for Georgia CIOs. It is one of 11 chapters of a national leadership association for CIOs from public and private companies, government, education, health care, and nonprofit organizations.