Chief Information Officer Suzanne Gordon has focused her 300-person staff on the alignment of IT resources with other business units within SAS. Suzanne was elevated to CIO from Vice President of the SAS Information Systems Division (ISD) in 2003, the same year she was named a ComputerWorld Premier 100 IT leader. She was honored for her innovative, effective approach to providing hardware, software and project management support for national and international operational systems. Suzanne headed the management information services department in ISD for nearly 20 years, where she helped develop the company's information- and applications-rich intranet. She joined SAS in 1980. A graduate of North Carolina State University, Suzanne maintains close ties to the university. A member of the board of trustees, she has also served on the alumni association board and College of Management Advisory board. Suzanne is a frequent speaker and mentor to women pursuing technical careers, and is also active in a medical ministry that provides services to low-income individuals. Less   View all posts

Governor Chris Gregoire named Tony Tortorice, a California Information Technology executive with more than 25 years of IT experience in both the private and public sectors, to head Washington’s Department of Information Services. Tony’s term began on July 1st of this year. A California resident for the past 30 years, Tony Tortorice, 57, was the chief information officer for the Los Angeles Unified School district, the nation’s second largest public school system. There, he led the recovery of a troubled HR/Payroll implementation. Tortorice was also the senior IT executive for the Los Angeles Community College District, the largest system of community colleges in the nation. Before working with the community college system, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to beginning a doctorate program in public administration at the University of Southern California, Tony served in the U.S. Navy, where he started his career in IT by installing his command’s first work processing system. Less   View all posts