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Author - Joseph Santamaria
Joseph Santamaria is Vice President – Information Technology (IT) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for PSEG Services Corporation, as of October 2012. He is responsible for setting and implementing PSEG’s digital roadmap, ensuring its alignment and integration with the enterprise's strategic planning process, and for the reliable, effective and secure delivery of information technology to all areas of PSEG. Mr. Santamaria is accountable for overseeing the digital transformation of critical PSEG capabilities such as customer engagement, real-time optimization of distribution and generation assets, advanced analytics and process automation, with the goal of providing customers with relevant, contextual information, supporting product line growth, and enabling resource synergies and efficiencies. In his role, Mr. Santamaria sets the mission of the IT organization to foster a business-oriented culture, increase agility and scalability, and adopt value-driving technologies such as public cloud, IoT and robotics at scale. Mr. Santamaria previously served as CIO at UIL Holdings Corporation where he successfully integrated the IT activities of a major acquisition, merged operational technologies into IT, established a best-in-class cybersecurity framework and led the company to receive the 2011 SAP Best Run Utility Award. Prior to his role at UIL, Mr. Santamaria worked at Pitney Bowes as global vice president-enterprise business applications. Before then, he was a principal consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, managing commercial and delivery aspects of large, global ERP transformation projects. Mr. Santamaria serves on the board of trustees of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and on the customer advisory boards of Verizon, box.com, GE Digital and AT&T. Mr. Santamaria holds a Master of Business Administration degree from ESADE, in Barcelona, Spain, and a Master of Science in Applied and Industrial Physics from the University of Barcelona, Spain.
