Cynthia J. Nustad, 2013 Honoree

- Title
- Senior vice president, CIO
- Employer
- HMS
- Location
- Irving, Texas
- Characteristic most important in an IT hire:
- Communication skills
- Quick ROI project:
- Data center moves and consolidation, driving our costs and complexity lower.
- Boldest IT prediction:
- Twenty percent of new CEOs will be former IT leaders.
- How do you evaluate emerging technologies?
- Educate, ideate, network with others, solicit peer feedback, discuss with vendors and pilot.
- How have you surprised your CEO in recent months?
- My IT team had some of the highest employee engagement and satisfaction scores in a third-party assessment.