When Alan Mercaldo joined MAG Mutual Insurance Company 16 years ago as a project manager, he could not have known he eventually would become the company's first-ever CIO. "As access to information bec
Shortly after Thad DeBerry joined Western World Insurance Group as vice president of IT five years ago, he began losing sleep over one issue: the company's lack of a business continuity plan. "When I
Knight oversees an IT department of approximately 1,400 people. About 1,000 are located in the United States, primarily in Warren and Whitehouse Station, N.J., with the rest scattered in branches and
George Napoles, CIO at Jackson National Life Insurance Company, sets high standards for those who work in his department. All potential IT employees first must take a programmer's aptitude test that e
Based in Metairie, La., a suburb of New Orleans, Gray Insurance is a family-owned high-risk workers' compensation carrier with 120 employees and five offices in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama
"We have known for some time we had to remake this company from the ground up, and senior management has been pushing forward with an agenda of transformation for 24 months," Harris explains. "When we
"We have a strategic vision to reinvent protection and retirement for our customers," he explains. "When I came here five years ago, we were a life insurance company with a billion-dollar bank that al
Knowing how to communicate with a variety of audiences gave Golden the skills he needed to help steer Insurance House through a massive revamp of its IT infrastructure. Based in Marietta, Ga., the com
For two years, Lincoln Financial Group CIO Chuck Cornelio has focused on integrating and consolidating systems as part of a major acquisition. With the bulk of that work behind him, Cornelio is turnin
Eric Bulis considers himself a problem solver. He's also enamored with technology and the role it can play in helping business. So, being CIO and head of operations at a midsize life insurance company