The shortlist for the Women in IT Awards – USA edition has been announced. Whittled down from an impressive 230 nominations across 21 categories, this year’s entry standard was exceptionally high, spelling hope for the future of IT in the post-pandemic world.
The final winners will be announced at the first in-person awards ceremony since 2019, which will take place on Wednesday, September 14 2022, at the Pier 60, New York.
After over two years of business disruption due to COVID-19, the forthcoming awards will undoubtedly be a time not just for inspiration but for attendees to reconnect and network with other women industry leaders.
It goes without saying that the Woman of the Year category is a cornerstone of the awards, with the judges describing contenders as; “a woman who has demonstrated the highest degree of IT excellence, innovation and leadership over the last two years, and shone a light on the great things women in IT can achieve. Candidates should have demonstrated outstanding business – or technology-focused achievements and given examples of how they have actively sought to bring more diversity into the technology industry. ”
The full shortlist of exceptional women and supporters of women is below:
Advocate of the Year
Diane Chan, BNY Mellon
Errika Moore, National STEM Funders Network
Gavriella Schuster, Gavriella Schuster, LLC
Jamie Beason, JLL
Jocelyn DeGance, FirstBoard.io / CBT / Holberton School of Software Engineering
Mica Syjuco, Avanade
Nancy Wang, Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT)
Sonja Jones, Mindpoint Group and Risk-q
Teresa Cain, TreviPay
Tina Gravel, Appgate
Ally of the Year
Angel Henry, Genesys
Barry Shurkey, NTT Data Services
Brenda Kay, Precisely
Deborah Schildkraut, CompTIA
Eugina Jordan, Parallel Wireless
Gavriella Schuster, Gavriella Schuster, LLC
Helen Figge, MedicaSoft / NYS HIMSS
John Napoli, JP Morgan Chase
Michael Stein, HSBC Bank USA
Neil Hirsch, Barclays
Board Director of the Year
Alicia Syrett, Digimarc
Jocelyn DeGance, Holberton School of Software Engineering
Niloofar Razi Howe, Pondurance
Nirvana Farhadi, Rainmade
CIO of the Year
Angelic Gibson, AvidXchange
Beatriz Copelli, Reynolds American Inc.
Dee Fitzgerald, Danone
Enna Zarate, DHL
Stacey Bernal, Infor
Suchita Nagale, Syntellis Performance Solutions
CTO of the Year
Barbara Bickham, Trailyn Ventures, LLC
Janhavi Rao, Barclays
Mary Kotch, Core Speciality Insurance
Yao Morin, JLL
Data Leader of the Year
Ananda Gowri Karthikeyan, Equinix
Ashley Cheng, JLL
Candice Linnell, Intel
Chitra Balasubramania, CircleCI
Colleen Tartow, Starburst
Jigyasa Grover, Twitter Kala Bala, MMIT
Kelli Pircio, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Shibani Sanan, Plaid
Zhamak Dehghani, Thoughtworks
DEI Initiative of the Year
Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT)
GN Women’s Network, GN – Jabra
GRC for Intelligent Ecosystems (GRCIE)
Learning2Work Pathfinders Apprenticeship Program, Pearson
NTT Inclusive Programs, NTT DATA Services
Product Specialists, JLL Technologies
Race and Ethnic Diversity Affinity Group (RED), Morgan Stanley
The Accelerator Hub, Positive Planet US
The Great Connect, AvidXchange
Unleash Your Leadership Potential (UYLP), Broadcom
Digital Transformation Leader of the Year
Alla Gogerman, Pacific Gas & Electric
Carolyn Ortega, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Crystal Crayton, Reynolds Consumer Products
Dana Parks, BNY Mellon
Debra Doyle, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Mariana Padilha, dentsu
Prajakta Surve, Trane Technologies
Sandhya Sridharan, JP Morgan Chase
Teesee Murray, TiGrafx
Tiffany Miller, Fidelity Investments
Employer of the Year
Whitney Cathcart, 3DLOOK
Louisa Marlin, BJSS
Fastly Inc.
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Globant
Joyce Durst, Growth Acceleration Partners
Kathleen Pai, N-able
Get Real Health
S&P Global
Entrepreneur of the Year
Chaitra Vedullapalli, Women in Cloud
Joyce Durst, Growth Acceleration Partners
Kara Collier, NutriSense
Nataliya Anon, Svitla Systems Inc.
Rajoshi Ghosh, Hasura
Srii Srinivasan, Chargeback Gurus
Stacia Nelson, Pivot Strategies
Tammy Camp, Stronghold
Vickie Chen, AviaGames
Whitney Cathcart, 3DLOOK
IT Team of the Year (led by a woman)
Elizabeth Berna, Allstate
Elynne Koay, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jo-Anne Dressendofer, Slice Wireless Solutions
Laura Macca, Eisner Advisory Group, LLC
MacKenzie Durnovich, Bank of America
Melissa Ahrendt, Perrigo Company
Merry Anne Hetrick, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Monique Edmondson, Cisco
Sara Nixon, Intel
Tami Frederick, Perrigo Company
Next Generation Leader of the Year
Alex Keedy, Intel 471
Allie Lenzmeier, Infor
Amanda Brown, Accenture
Jigyasa Grover, Twitter
Madeline Dawes, ColdQuanta
Maretta Morovitz, MITRE
Priya Aswani, Microsoft
Rikki George, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group
Ting Pan, MURAL
Xiang Ying (Shar) Shuai, Barclays
Outstanding Contribution of the Year
Ann-Marie Yap, Stanford Health Care and School of Medicine
Barbara Hewitt, Texas State University
Emma Chew, Rolls-Royce
Ewa Kleczyk, Symphony Health (an ICON plc Company)
Jacyln Giordano, OneScreen.ai
Krista Peryer, The Geek Foundation
Laura Jones, Hearst
Monica Eaton-Cardone, Chargebacks911
Radhika Aasoori, Morgan Stanley
Ruchi Mahindru, IBM Research
Security Leader of the Year
Cynthia Hetherington, Hetherington Group
Dana Simberkoff, AvePoint
Kavya Pearlman, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI)
Keavy Murphy, Starburst
Lauren Zink, Indeed.com
Monica Converse, Verizon
Nancy (Zhengnan) Wang, Alert Logic by HelpSystems
Rikki George, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME Group)
Saryu Nayyar, Gurucul
Sheila Jambekar, Plaid
Woman of the Year
Anju Chopra, Kroll
Bonnie Hagemann, EDA, Inc.
Carolyn Ortega, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Cindy Couyoumjian, Cinergy Financial
Irma Olguin, Bitwise Industries
Kathleen Pai, N-able
Kavya Pearlman, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI)
Kitty Chaney Reed, IBM
Krista Peryer, The Geek Foundation
Priyanka Sharma, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
To find out more about the Women in IT Awards USA 2022, click here.
