Everything Channel Announces the CIO 50 West Winners

New Recognition Honors IT Executives for Influence, Innovation and Ability to
Collaborate with Integrators and Vendors

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Everything Channel, a
division of United Business Media, today announced the CIO 50 West winners, a
new recognition that honors IT executives for their influence, innovation and
ability to collaborate with integrators and vendors. The awards were
presented at Everything Channel's Midsize Enterprise Summit West 2009, which
took place at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, CA.

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The CIO 50 West winners include:
1. Mohinder Chopra, SVP & CIO, OSI Systems
2. David Hudson, VP IT, Keenan & Associates
3. Tracy Cleeton, Director of IT, Saga Communications
4. Keenan Lersch, Technology Manager, American Railcar Industries
5. Thomas Smith, CTO, PSRS/PEERS of Missouri
6. Brad Cackler, IT Director, Micro Power Electronics
7. Dave McDowell, Director of IT, West Liberty Foods
8. Greg McLean, Director of Technical Services, Green Bay Packaging
9. Christopher Holda, Director, IT, Integrated Health Associates
10. Randy Nye, IT Manager, Oak Harbor Freight Lines, Inc.
11. Rita Lazar-Tippe, IS Manager, Edmonton Journal
12. Michael Gauthier, CIO, IMTT
13. Michelle George, First VP - Application Development, Securities
America
14. Nathan Church, VP & IT Manager, Columbia River Bank
15. Dave Ploch, CIO/Director, IT, Novus International
16. Greg Katers, Director of IT, Green Bay Packaging
17. David Chin, Director of IT, Stanford Hotels Corporation
18. David Price, IT Director, Resource Management, Inc.
19. Michael Brown, VP of IS, Peter Piper Pizza
20. Neil Stewart, Director Technical Operations, QuikTrip Corp
21. Dirk Anderson, VP Technology, C R England
22. Paul Dupree, CIO, Assistant VP of I.S., Asbury College
23. Bruce Hagen, VP Corporate IS, Bemis Manufacturing Co
24. Robert Bence, VP, Technology, Southwest Credit Systems
25. Larry Freed, Vice President & CIO, Atrium Companies, Inc.
26. Seth Hansen, VP - IT, Daktronics, Inc
27. David Cresswell, Director, IT Planning & Strategy, British Columbia
Institute of Technology
28. Lawrence Frederick, CIO, University of the Pacific
29. Raman Krishnaswami, Director, IT, Healthcare Benefit Trust
30. John DeLuca, Director of Information Technology, Hydranautics
31. Craig Crosby, Director, Information Services, Procopio, Cory,
Hargreaves
& Savitch LLP
32. Adam Farkas, VP IT, Crown Media
33. Leonardo Imana, Director of Technology, Adelman Travel Group
34. Sergey Bushlyar, CIO, IT Director, Paul Capital Partners
35. Neil Ferguson, Technology Director, Orrick, Herrington, & Sutclife
LLP
36. Peter Mills, Executive Director, Information Technology, Canadian
Tourism Commission
37. David Cropper, CIO, Mamiye Brothers
38. Susan Faulkner, Director, Information Systems and Technology, Bluewave
Energy
39. Eric Vlam, Director of Information Systems, Equipment Depot
40. Michael Gibbons, Director, Northeastern State University
41. Aaron Bukhari, CIO & CSO, SNC Lavalin Nuclear Inc.
42. Chris Daly, Director, Infrastructure & Application Support,
Corporation Service Company
43. Niel Nickolaisen, CIO, Headwaters, Inc.
44. Lawrence Frederick, CIO, University of the Pacific
45. Carl Gammon, Director, Information Systems, Minntech Corporation
46. James Fielder, Vice President Information Technology, Farm Credit
Services of Illinois
47. Matthew Sharp, Director of I.T., David and Lucile Packard Foundation
48. Brian Mackay, Associate VP and CIO, Thompson Rivers University
49. Nick Barakat, IT Manager, Clean Energy Fuels Corp

50. Gary Allen, Chief Technology Officer, Amarillo Independent School
District

The professionals comprising the CIO 50 West were chosen for their leadership
in utilizing technology to help increase corporate efficiencies, drive revenue
and achieve other key business goals within their midsize company or
organization. In particular, Everything Channel looked for executives with IT
decision-making ability and strong partnerships with integrators and
consultants. The size of the IT budget and the progress of ongoing IT projects
were also considered. Based on these criteria, Everything Channel's editorial
and content team identified today's leading customers.

"We are pleased to honor these IT executives for their influence, innovation
and ability to collaborate with integrators and vendors," said, Robert C.
DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director for Everything Channel
editorial. "Congratulations to the CIO 50 West winners on this well-deserved
achievement."

The Midsize Enterprise Summit brought senior IT Executives from midsize
businesses together with industry analysts and leading and emerging vendors.
The focus -- enabling strategic IT Decision-Making -- embraced
midmarket-specific issues, trends and solutions from a horizontal and vertical
industry-specific perspective. The business-intensive format included
analyst-led sessions, vendor-led world premiere and private boardroom
appointments, a showcase of exhibits, and networking functions.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for managing and accelerating
technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales,
Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth
of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience
loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an
extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and
marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they
need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)
UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information
distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization
of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve
professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from
journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated
events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in
more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these
communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business
and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

Contact
Mark Britton
Everything Channel
(603) 471-4219
mark.britton@ec.ubm.com

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Mark Britton, Everything Channel, +1-603-471-4219, mark.britton@ec.ubm.com