Recognition by Insurance and Technology as a member of the advisory board for their annual Elite 8 CIO awards. The Nolan Company's nominee, Brian LeClaire, was one of the winners.

1. Susan Gueli,
Nationwide
Financial
Graeme
Boddy,
Builders
Mutual
Introducing I&T’s Elite 8 of 2012
By Anthony O'Donnell (mailto:aodonnell@techweb.com)
October 15, 2012
URL: (http://insurancetech.com/management-strategies/introducing-its-elite-8-of-2012/240009030)
Every year I&T honors eight outstanding senior insurance carrier technology executives for their
successful use of technology to support their company’s business objectives. I&T’s editors are
delighted to introduce this year’s honorees who have made a difference at companies in the P&C, life
and health insurance sectors.
Be sure to check out the first two profiles, published today at www.insurancetech.com:
Nationwide Financial's Susan Gueli Builds Muscle and Energy
Builder's Mutual's Graeme Boddy Accelerates IT Development To Stay Ahead
The Elite 8 are selected at the end of a months-long process of collecting and
reviewing nominations from industry analysts, vendors, insurance carrier colleagues
and anybody else who might feel moved to call for the recognition of a technology
executive’s outstanding contributions. Some have driven especially noteworthy
initiatives in the last year or so; some have demonstrated longer records of success.
Studying these executive accomplishments and getting to know them through
interviews is a highlight of the year for I&T’s editors, and we hope you might catch
some of our enthusiasm reflected in the profiles that we’ll publish this week.
Selection of the Elite 8 is also bittersweet process in that, in the end, we can only recognize eight of
the many interesting and effective executives who are nominated. We congratulate those who made
the cut this year, and we encourage advocates of those who didn’t to consider renominating them next
year.
Every year we enlist the help of distinguished industry observers to help us evaluate
the merits of nominees and to vote for the Elite 8 Award winners. We’d like to thank
those who graciously took the trouble to participate in the process this year:
Elite 8 2012 Advisory Board
Craig Weber, CEO, Celent (Boston)
Matthew Josefowicz, Partner and Managing Director, Novarica (New York)
Steve Callahan, Practice Director, Robert E. Nolan Company (Simsbury, Conn.)
Frank Petersmark, CIO Advocate, X by 2 (Farmington Hills, Mich.)
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2. Stephen Applebaum, Senior Analyst, Aite Group (Boston)
Deborah Smallwood, Founder, SMA (Boston)
David Hollander, Global Insurance Advisory Leader of Ernst & Young LLP, Ernst & Young (New
York)
Neal Baumann, U.S. Insurance Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP (New York)
John Mullen, VP, Insurance, Capgemini (New York)
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