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
Aart Rupert
Damen Shipyards
Arno van den Berg
Vandebron
Michiel Valk
Essent
Pieter Halenbeek
Kamer van Koophandel

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
CEO & Founder Levi9 and chairman Tech Hero Award
Martijn Koning
Chairman CIO Platform Nederland
Marc Schuuring
Partner & managing director Boston Consulting Group

Mel Jacobs
CIO Wealth Management and Corporate Bank & CIO of the Year 2021

Tjibbe van der Zeeuw
Co-founder Squadra Group

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

Hotze Zijlstra
Editor-in-chief ICT Media, Host CIO TV