Michael Macrie, 2014 Honoree
- Title
- Vice president and CIO
- Employer
- Land O'Lakes
- Location
- Shoreview, Minn.
- New titles in your IT organization:
- Executive application architect, data-to-insights architect and director of IT for mergers and acquisitions.
- How many times have you had to reinvent yourself in your career?
- Three times: From a technologist to a project leader, then to a big-picture thinker, and then to a relationship-builder.
- A career highlight:
- Starting a trading company from scratch in Ireland.
- Boldest IT prediction:
- Cloud computing and software as a service will radically change the role of the IT function inside large companies.
- How do you evaluate emerging technologies?
- Try before you buy.
- To what extent do you embed IT workers in business units?
- We ensure that we keep a small, but very senior-level, staff embedded on the leadership teams of our businesses.