Past Winners: 1998 - Today
The IT Executive of the Year Award was created by the DFW SIM Chapter in 1998 to recognize excellence in IT management within the Dallas/Fort Worth area. During the first four years, recipients were recognized at a special reception at the Dallas Information Technology Exposition (ITEC) in June. In 2002, the DFW Chapter assumed complete ownership and control of the award. At the same time the Awards Ceremony was moved to coincide with the Annual DFW SIM Chapter’s Holiday Banquet in December. Initially only one winner per year was selected; however, starting in 2003, multiple awards were selected based upon the size of the IT organization. This continued until 2007, when the Board returned to the one-winner only rule (* Large firm was defined as greater than or equal to 100 IT/IS employees under nominee's supervision.).
Since 2005 the IT Executive of the Year Award has been held in conjunction with our Spring Kick-off Event, which is generally in March. This is an open meeting, and typically draws crowds of 200 or more members and guests.
2009 will be the 12th year of the award. Since its inception only 17 indivduals have been selected to win this award.
Information about recent and past award winners is available by clicking on one of the topic links to the left. In addition nomination forms may also be viewed and downloaded from one of these links.
IT Executive of the Year 1998
Phil Farr, Director IT, Fina Oil & Chemical
IT Executive of the Year 1999
Jack Dowling, CIO, Compucom Inc.
IT Executive of the Year 2000
Earl Peck, Sr VP Information Technology and Billing, VarTec Telecom
IT Executive of the Year 2001
John Bock, Community Credit Union, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
IT Executive of the Year 2002
Dave Landry, Group Vice President, Verizon Information Services
IT Executive of the Year 2003
Large Firm* Category Co-Winners:
Evelyn Follit, CIO & Sr. VP of Organizational Enabling Services, Radio Shack Corporation
Keith Morrow, CIO & VP Information Systems, 7-Eleven, Inc.
Small & Medium Firm* Category Co-Winners
Joe Lacik, VP of Information Services, Aviall Inc.
Steve Williams, Sr VP & CIO, Mattress Giant Corp.
IT Executive of the Year 2004
Large Firm* Category Winner
Richard Harris Jr., Associate VP for Computing and CTO for UNT
IT Executives of the Year 2005
Large Firm* Category Winner
Linda A. Goodspeed, CTO, Lennox International, Inc.
Midcap Firm* Category Co-Winners
Kevin Campbell, VP & CIO, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
John Phillips, Corporate Director, Information Technology & Services, Trinity Industries, Inc.
IT Executives of the Year 2006
2006 Large Organization Winners
2006 IT Executive of the Year
Phil S. Maternowski, Sr. Vice President & Chief Information Officer
CitiFinancial Auto
1st Runner Up
Caren Shiozaki, Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Belo Corp
2006 Midsize Organization Winners 
2006 IT Executive of the Year
Alex Pettit, Chief Technology Officer
City of Denton
1st Runner Up
Steve Davis, Chief Information Officer
SOURCECORP, Incorporated
IT Executive of the Year 2007
Merv Tarde, VP & CIO, Interstate Batteries
IT Executive of the Year 2008
Michael E. Alverson, VP/Deputy CIO Innovative Technology Solutions (ITS), Texas Health Resources
* Large firm is defined as greater or equal to 100 IT/IS employees under nominee's supervision.