Warren Kudman, 2013 Honoree
- Title
- Vice president and CIO
- Employer
- Sealed Air Corp.
- Location
- Elmwood Park, N.J.
- A task you've delegated this year:
- I've given one of my direct reports responsibility to lead the team that is partnering with the business to develop IT-enabled solutions for direct use by customers.
- Your relationship with a key business leader:
- I have a very strong relationship with our CEO, based on trust, where I am able to approach him with opportunities or issues, and he is able to more comfortably support investments in IT.
- A career highlight:
- I was asked to be the overall integration program leader for Sealed Air's acquisition of Diversey, a $3.2 billion company.
- Boldest IT prediction:
- Siri-type technology will begin to be applied to the big data/analytics arena so we can start asking our systems to give us answers to management inquiries (think Star Trek computers).