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The CIO Hall of Fame took on a stronger flavor of the medicine cabinet this year,
as two of five CIOs inducted into the group by CIO magazine came from the
pharmaceutical industry. Another leads IT at a consulting company, one comes
from consumer products and other from a government laboratory.
From Accenture consulting comes Frank Mondruson. The CIO oversees all business applications and technology
infrastructure of a $21.6-billion, 190,000-employee company operating in 52
countries. Accenture says Modruson’s leadership has implemented a comprehensive
governance model, streamlined the technology infrastructure and enabled the
company to run IT as a business. Accenture had been previously selected by the
magazine as one of 100 innovative organizations that use IT effectively to
create business value. And Modruson had been named to InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs
and Computerworld's Premier 100. He has a master’s degree of science from
Pennsylvania State University, and a bachelor's degree in computer science from
Dickinson College.
Tom Murphy is one of the representatives of big pharma. His employer,
$72-billion-sales AmerisourceBergen, provides drug distribution and related
services. Before joining AmerisourceBergen in 2004, Murphy was in the
hospitality industry, most recently as CIO at Royal Caribbean Cruises, where he
retooled the company’s warehousing, logistics, contract management and other
systems. A graduate of the University of Richmond, Murphy was named to
ComputerWorld's Premier 100 list in 2002.
Another drug company CIO is Tom Flanagan of $14.6-billion Amgen. Before joining the biotech firm in 2004,
Flanagan spent eight years at telecom titan MCI. He’s been CIO at Amgen since
2006, beginning as the executive heading up Amgen's Global ERP program. Before
joining MCI, he was a career Navy officer. He has degrees from the U.S. Naval
Academy, MIT, and Harvard University. At Amgen, Flanagan has overseen
consolidating worldwide ERP systems and redesigning work processes to improve
scientist collaboration using universal communications, desktop video
conferencing and enterprise search.
Filippo Passerini has the title of president of global business services in
addition to being chief information officer at Procter & Gamble. With 9
billion in annual revenue and a history dating back to 1837, P&G is the
largest and oldest of the companies hosting a new member of the CIO Hall of
Fame. Passerini has spent his entire career at P&G, starting in 1981 as a
systems analyst. He was named CIO in 2004. Passerini, a native of Italy, has a
doctorate in statistics and operating research from the University of Rome.
Among his accomplishments at P&G is a 2008 rollout of a 43-country Cisco
video conferencing network.
The sole government CIO is Brent Stacey of Idaho National Laboratory. The Department of Energy nuclear
research organization was created in 2005 from Argonne National Laboratory
West, where Stacey had previously worked as an IT leader. Stacey was recognized
as Idaho's Information Technology Executive of the Year in 2002 for his
leadership. He’d previously founded SRV.net, an Internet service provider. His
work at Idaho National Laboratory supports transforming the one-time clean-up
and environmental facility into a research and development institution. His
group has, among other things, built a high-performance supercomputer
capability for modeling and simulation of nuclear reactors.
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