Canada

The Federal Treasury Board of Canada has appointed Benoit Long as its new CTO. Long was formerly CIO at The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre.

USA

Robert Carey is leaving his post as the Department of Navy's CIO to become director of strategy and policy at the Navy's Fleet Cyber Command.

Grocery chain Supervalu has named Wayne Shurts as its new EVP and CIO, who most recently served as global CIO at Cadbury.

The HJ Heinz Company announced that Karen Alber has been promoted to SVP CIO and global program management officer and moves to the Office of the Chairman, the most senior policy-making executive management group in the company.

American Electric Power has named Pablo Vegas as VP of IT and CIO.

Faced with the horrendous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the US Department of the Interior has promoted Bernard Mazer into the department's top CIO spot, from being CIO at Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service. He replaced Sanjeev Bhagowalia, who joined the US General Services Administration.

Avaya has appointed Stephen Gold as CIO and SVP from GSI Commerce, where he was CIO and corporate CTO.

Henry Sienkiewicz the technical program director for the Defense Information Systems Agency has been promoted to CIO, replacing Roberta Stempfley who has become director of the National Cybersecurity Division at the Department of Homeland Security.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co has promoted Jim McKinnon to VP and CIO.

Credit ratings agency Moody's Corporation announced that Tony Stoupas has joined as SVP and CIO.

The US Department of Commerce has named Simon Szykman as its new CIO and manager of the organisation's $2.6 billion annual IT budget. He came in from being CIO at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Dollar Financial Corp has announced the appointment of former Capital One Financial Corp CIO, Mike Coury, as its new CIO.

Brigadier General Ian Dickinson has been assigned to serve as director of communications and information and CIO of the Air Force Space Command.

Henry Sienkiewicz has become CIO of the Defense Information Systems Agency.

Mike Laurenti, formerly VP of IT at Family Dollar, is the new CIO at the department store chain Belk.

Neil Weiss has joined Jackson Family Wines, the parent company of Kendall-Jackson and a group of other wine brands, as SVP and CIO.

Securities firm BNY Mellon has named John Fiore as its CIO.

Katz Media Group has made Joe Brewer its CIO.

The OneAmerica life insurance companies have appointed Gene Berry to the position of VP and CIO.

The State of Oklahoma has announced its first CIO will be Alex Pettit.

The State of Texas has named Karen Robinson as its new CIO.

New Hampshire's state CIO Richard Bailey is to head the US Division of Motor Vehicles.

Samuel Nixon is to resign his seat in the House of Delegates to become Virginia's CIO.

Bill Piatt has left his post as the CIO at the World Bank's International Finance Corporation and will be joining the US General Services Administration Office of Governmentwide Policy as the director of the Office of Technology Strategy.

Vercie Lark has been named CIO at investment management and insurance services company DST Systems.

The city of Austin, Texas has appointed Stephen Elkins as its new CIO.

Rodney Overby has been named CIO at Citizens and Farmers Bank, responsible for IT and deposit operations.

Darla Morse is the new CIO for Seaworld Parks and Entertainment, having previously been the VP of IT at Walt Disney World.

The Hartford insurance group has named William Awad as the company's CTO, coming in from rival Travelers Insurance.

Nintendo of America, the subsidiary of the Japanese video game maker, has announced Ingvar Petursson as SVP of information services. He was previously CIO at Expedia.

NYC Health and Hospitals, the largest municipal hospital and health care system in the US, has named Bert Robles as SVP of IT and corporate CIO.

The University of California, San Francisco has appointed Elazar Harel as VP for IT and CIO.

The University of Florida has named Elias Eldayrie as VP and CIO.

Ken Stafford, previously vice-chancellor for technology at the University of Denver, has joined Kansas State University as CIO.

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