2022 Tech Exec of the Year: Charles Stafford
Charles Stafford is vice president of operations at PIER Group LLC.
Charles Stafford is vice president of operations at PIER Group LLC.
Kate Maxwell serves as the lead technical authority for the global defense and intelligence business at Microsoft.
At CNO Financial Group, Mike Mead is responsible for all IT delivery, including a portfolio of more than 400 applications.
Brian Newgent oversees all technology operations for Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives Inc. and all its wholly owned subsidiaries.
As chief information officer for the Indiana Department of Health, Mohan Ambaty is responsible for the oversight and direction of the agency’s IT infrastructure and delivery of critical services to agency staff and the public.
A member of the president’s cabinet, Matthew Etchison leads 182 IT professionals across the Ivy Tech Community College system. He’s responsible for the digital transformation of the college and for setting the strategic technology direction.
At Indiana University Health, Tim Tarnowski sets and executes the technology and innovation strategies, including accountability for IU Health’s statewide informatics and information services division that provides the large and complex infrastructure that underpins patient care and operations.
On Monday, Indianapolis-based Emmis announced an agreement to sell the radio stations in its home market to Maryland-based Urban One. At that time, the companies had not disclosed the sale price.
Across the state, enthusiasm for sustainable energy is growing. And the state’s universities are leading the way with cutting-edge research and development projects related to solar, autonomous vehicles, nuclear power and more.
The CareSource Reentry Program takes a case-management approach, in which CareSource criminal justice liaisons begin working with offenders while they’re still in prison (60-90 days before release) by conducting classes to educate them on the Healthy Indiana Plan.
Kim Strunk started Hopebridge Autism Therapy Centers in Kokomo in 2005.
Dr. Don Brown started LifeOmic in 2016. The company’s product, the Precision Health Cloud, is used by IU Health’s Precision Genomics Program to improve molecular tumor diagnostics.
IU Health launched the Hospital at Home program and offered it as an option to stabilized COVID-19 patients in order to open beds for sicker patients.
Philip Low, founder of On Target Laboratories and Purdue University’s presidential scholar for drug discovery, invented Cytalux.
Dr. Lawrence Einhorn is credited for revolutionizing testicular cancer treatment in the 1970s, leading to a 95% cure rate today.
Dr. John Christenson battled cancer while leading Riley’s work to prevent the spread of COVID.
Dr. John Woodall began practicing family medicine in Anderson, his hometown, after leaving the Air Force in 1972.
Monica Heltz is the public health director for the city of Fishers, which launched its own public health department during the pandemic.
Greg Carter works under the umbrella of harm reduction; much of his research has focused on identifying barriers to HIV screening and creating community-based HIV prevention interventions.
Scott Janke treats veterans who have entered the Indianapolis Veterans Treatment Court, which provides help to veterans involved in the criminal justice system who are dealing with addiction, mental illnesses and injuries.