2009 InfoWorld Award

“The diversity of challenges that a CTO faces was very evident in this year's InfoWold CTO 25 entries. But what was common across the 25 CTOs we chose as the year's top CTOs was a combination of management savvy, technological insight, and the ability to lead a team to success even in difficult circumstances. This year's honorees reinvented untenable legacies, provided game-changing insight, and managed both their own teams and key organization stakeholders to make their businesses succeed through the use of technology. Our honorees did much more than implement technology well; they brought its use to a new level.”
Galen Gruman, Executive Editor/News and Features, InfoWorld

Foot note: Despite the awards title it does not require you to be a CTO to be awarded the honor, and for the record I am not a CTO nor are many others honored this year.