Atish Banerjea, 2015 Honoree
- Title
- Executive vice president and CIO
- Employer
- NBCUniversal
- Location
- New York
- New IT titles:
- We added CTO and CIO titles for technology leaders who directly support specific business units. Other titles added include CISO, senior vice president of strategy and architecture, and enterprise architect.
- Skills you'll hire for in 2015:
- We will hire for software engineering, technical product management, information security and data science/big data. We have been training to ensure employees have technical skills and behavioral competencies to be successful in client-facing roles.
- Fast ROI project:
- Our employees asked for better help desk support. In response, we moved the service desk from offshore to Louisville, Ky. Employee satisfaction levels immediately improved from less than 1, on a scale of 1 to 5, to an average 4.7 based on feedback collected at the end of each service call.
- How do you evaluate emerging technologies?
- Our internal incubator, Media Labs -- based in our new, state-of-the-art NBCUniversal Technology Center -- is dedicated to evaluating and executing emerging technologies across our company.