Confare Swiss CIO Award honors the best IT managers
The Confare Swiss CIO Award is presented annually by EY Switzerland in collaboration with the CIO platform Confare. It honors the best Swiss IT managers of the year with the. The winners are selected by a jury headed by Jan Leitermann, Head of Technology Consulting Switzerland at EY in Switzerland.
Markus Köpfli, Head Digital Business Services / Group CIO of Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. has been named Best IT Manager of 2023. "He puts people first and has placed IT as one of the driving innovators in the company," said Confare Swiss CIO Awards jury chairman Jan Leitermann, Head of Technology Consulting Switzerland at EY in Switzerland. "Mettler-Toledo has already consistently invested in IT over the last 10+ years. Markus Köpfli has long been an important part of this development and, since his appointment as Group CIO in 2019, has consistently continued this process and positioned IT as an equal partner to the business."
The Top CIO of the Year are: Michael Nussbaumer, CIO & Executive Board of Regionalwerke AG Baden and Marc Pfeiffer, CIO & Member of the Executive Board of the Tax Administration of the Canton of Bern. Leitermann says, "We received many excellent applications for this year's Confare Swiss CIO Award. Through initiatives like this, we can make the relevance of new technologies visible to a broad public and thus help CIOs enormously on their way and value their achievements." Every year, he said, an award like this can put the spotlight on CIOs' achievements. "In addition, we can show which technologies and specific use cases are the drivers of innovation, like AI and GenAI this year. Therefore, I am very happy to be able to support the Confare Swiss CIO Award," says jury chairman Leitermann.
Source: www.ey.com
