ourCIO congratulates our very own Kent Smith for his appointment as President of the CIO Association of Canada - Manitoba Chapter, and board member elect for the National board of the CIO Association of Canada.

"I'm passionate about seeing CIOs grow and the CIO profession grow in Manitoba and Nationally", says Smith. "Likely also a product of the era we are in, but the pandemic has really highlighted the strategic value of the CIO in business, so I'm excited about the timing of taking on this role."

The CIO Association of Canada is a not-for-profit organization representing nearly 500 CIOs, CISOs and IT Executives in Canada. Their mission is to facilitate networking, sharing of best practices and executive development, and to collaborate on issues facing CIOs/IT Executives. More on CIOCan can be found here: https://www.ciocan.ca/

Kent Smith is a founding partner of ourCIO. Kent and a community of CIOs are contributing their years of experience as IT leaders championing digital adoption in business as Consulting CIOs so more businesses in Manitoba and Canada get ahead with technology. More on ourCIO can be found here: https://www.ourCIO.ca/