Steven D. Birgfeld, 2012 Honoree
- Title
- Senior vice president and CIO
- Employer
- Hostess Brands
- Location
- Irving, Texas
- New titles added to your IT organization?
- Director/vice president of enterprise performance management, a role that provides oversight to business analytics and related data processes.
- What characteristic is most important to you in an IT hire?
- Attitude: The ability to work with the business and the team to get things done.
- Skills you'll hire for this year?
- Integration, with a focus on the middleware components between internal and external systems (cloud, for example).
- What's the coolest project you and your team are working on?
- Although a data challenge, we are exploring a new order and demand planning capability. Besides providing improved orders, the insights from the data could expand into a number of other opportunities.