The CIO of The Year Award

Winners for life

The CIO of the Year Award has the aim to give recognition to the best performing CIO in that year. The performance aspects being measured entails IT performance, IT agility and project performance/attractiveness. But not only the performance aspects will be of importance. Just like last year the election will focus on leadership aspects and business and boardroom credibility.

This year’s nominees

Anneke Keller

CTO at Wehkamp

Barend Kuperus

SVP of Technology at PVH Corp

Rob Visser

NN Group CIO at NN

Rob Visser is CIO of the Year 2022

Rob Visser, CIO van NN, is winnaar van de CIO of the Year Award 2022. Hij dankt de prijs aan zijn strategische visie op engineering, vakmanschap en klantgerichtheid – zaken die volgens hem nauw met elkaar verweven zijn. “Rob staat echt ergens voor”, zegt juryvoorzitter Bernhard van Oranje. “Hij weet het beste uit mensen te halen – zowel individueel als ten aanzien van hun rol binnen de organisatie.”

The process

1. Pre-selection of pre-nominees.

The CIO of the Year Award is based on a thorough process. The criteria and the procedure have been developed over the past ten years together with CIO Platform Nederland (CIO platform of top 100 organisations in the Netherlands), CIO Magazine and Research organisations: The Boston Consulting Group and Squadra.

2. Validation

The top nominees are chosen by the jury based on the results of the web questionnaire that is be measured and ranked by the Boston Consulting Group. Personal validation checks are conducted by Squadra and Plan B.

3. Jury Selection

A final meeting with the nominees takes place in October. The jury (Rob Beijleveld) will also conduct the validation checks with CEO, CFO, and/or COO of each top nominee on all the results (survey, interview, and assessment). The CIO of the Year will be presented at CIODAY.

CIO of The Year Award Jury

Bernhard van Oranje

Bernhard van Oranje

CEO & Founder Levi9 and chairman CIO of the Year Award

Martijn Koning

Martijn Koning

Chairman CIO Platform Nederland

Marc Schuuring

Marc Schuuring

Partner & managing director Boston Consulting Group

Marcel Krom

Marcel Krom

CIO PostNL & CIO of the Year 2020

Tjibbe van der Zeeuw

Tjibbe van der Zeeuw

Co-founder Squadra Group

Rob Beijleveld

Rob Beijleveld

CEO - ICT Media, Host & Jury member CIO of the Year Award

Hotze Zijlstra

Hotze Zijlstra

Editor-in-chief ICT Media, Host CIO TV