IDG India’s CIO magazine has presented the 5th annual CIO100 awards in Bangalore on September 4, 2010 at the ITC Royal Gardenia. The glittering awards ceremony recognized 100 CIOs (Chief Information Officers) and IT leaders from leading Indian organizations for their exemplary IT initiatives that helped their organizations stay agile in the turbulent economy last year.

The five Special Award categories also felicitated the CIOs for extraordinary work in 5 particular domains. These special awards were part of the main nomination process and the five winners in each category are selected by the same independent editorial panel that judges the CIO100 awards. This year CIOs was recognized in the following Special Awards categories: Storage, Security, Infrastructure, Innovation and Green IT. In addition the CIO Hall of Fame Awards also recognized IT leaders who have won 4 CIO100 Awards while continuing with the same organization.

CIO Hall Of Fame Honorees 2010

1. Allergan India, K.T. Rajan
2. Bank Of India, .A. Kalyanasundar
3. BSES Ltd. JV Reliance Infrastructure, K.B. Singh
4. HDFC Standard Life Insurance, Sunil Rawlani
5. Hyundai AES, M. Suresh
6. JK Tyre & Industries, S.S. Sharma
7. Larsen & Toubro, Anantha Sayana
8. LG Electronics, Daya Prakash
9. New Holland Fiat, Avinash Arora
10. Otis Elevator, V. Subramaniam
11. Polaris Software Lab, Balakrishnan V.
12. Ranbaxy Laboratories, David Briskman
13. Punjab National Bank, R.I.S Sidhu

Vijay Ramachandran, Editor-in-Chief, CIO India added, “Our congratulations to the winners who have truly demonstrated their achievements through enterprise and leadership.”

The theme for this year’s awards was “The Agile 100”. To be a CIO100 award winner this year, companies and their IT leaders had to demonstrate technology initiatives that allow