These are the Gold, Silver, and Bronze, Stevie® Award-winning nominations in The 2023 American Business Awards®. The winners were determined by the average scores of more than 240 professionals worldwide in the three-month judging process. Learn about the judging and awards process here.

Included here are the HCLTech Supercharging Progress Categories.

Winners were celebrated during an awards banquet on Tuesday, June 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York.

Best Business Technology Pivot
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Betacom, Bellevue, Washington: Betacom Makes Business Pivot to Benefit Industry 4.0 Transformation for Enterprises
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
Fidelity Investments, Westlake, Texas: Fidelity Investments - Quality Solutions - Business Technology Pivot
Lenovo, Morrisville, North Carolina: Pivoting a World-Class Hardware Business to Services with Lenovo SSG
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Calix, NY, New York: Calix Marketing Cloud Plus
Edifecs, Bellevue, Washington: Edifecs: The foundation of healthcare interoperability
Hornetsecurity Inc, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Hornetsecurity: Helping build sustainable cybersecurity cultures
IBM, Armonk, New York: Achieving Greatness in Royalty & Payment Management
NordLayer, Lewes, Delaware: Best Business Technology Pivot
Tripleseat, Concord, Massachusetts: Tripleseat+ Direct: Exceptional User Experience and Increased Revenue

Best Technical Support Solution - Computer Services
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Tangoe US, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana: Client Implementation Times Cut in Half
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Quiq, Bozeman, Montana: Quiq: Creating Happier Customers for Every Enterprise

Best Technical Support Solution - Computer Technologies
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina: Virtual on-Watch
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
AARP, Washington, District of Columbia: AARP Foundation Tax-Aide chatbot
Align Technology, Morrisville, North Carolina: Omni-channel Customer Support

Best Technical Support Strategy and Implementation
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Discover Financial Services, Riverwoods, Illinois: Trident 2.0
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Demandbase, San Francisco, California: Improving Customer Experiences and Implementations through Teamwork and Collaboration
NIX, St. Petersburg, Florida: NIX Technical Support Achievements
Webex Events, San Jose, California: Webex Events Customer Experience Team Strategy and Implementation

Technical Professional of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Parallax Advanced Research, Beavercreek, Ohio: Dr. Mary Frame, Senior Research Psychologist
Tech Takshila, Bothell, Washington: Ankit Sirmorya
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
AAITP, South Windsor, Connecticut: Vivek Basavegowda Ramu, Executive QA/Performance Architect I President of "AAITP"
Adobe, San Jose, California: Mayuresh Kulkarni, AI/ML Technical Program Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Seattle, Washington: Sugandha Sahay - Automation expert & Tech mentor
Department of Labor Office of the Chief Information Officer, Washington, District of Columbia: Jessica Mitchell, Intrusion Detection and Response Watch Officer
Discover Financial Services, Riverwoods, Illinois: Joe Mills, Senior Director, Transformation Strategy & Automation
Octane, New York, New York: Caroline Ho, Senior Staff Engineer
University of California, San Diego, California: Benyam Alemu Sood, Mobile Applications Developer

Technology Department of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Elanco Animal Health, Greenfield, Indiana: Elanco Animal Health's IT Department
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Alpine IQ, Broomfield, Colorado: Alpine IQ
CISCO SYSTEMS, San Jose, California: CHAIN - Cisco AIOps Cross-Domain I&O Control Center for visualization, insights and action
Simform, Orlando, Florida: Simform's Technology Department

Technology Executive of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Persefoni, Tempe, Arizona: Kentaro Kawamori, CEO & Co-Founder
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
Applause, Framingham, Massachusetts: Chris Malone, CEO
Department of Labor Office of the Chief Information Officer, Washington, District of Columbia: Sanjay Koyani, Chief Technology Officer
Feedonomics, Woodland Hills, California: Shawn Lipman, CEO
Otus, Chicago, Illinois: Chris Hull, Co-founder & President
Vatom, Los Angeles, California: Eric Pulier, CEO & Founder
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
CURE Auto Insurance, Princeton, New Jersey: Doug Benalan, CIO
GTE Financial, Tampa, Florida: Chad Burney, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Lumin Digital, San Ramon, California: Sean McElroy, Chief Security Officer
N-able Inc, Boston, Massachusetts: Joel Kemmerer, Chief Information Officer
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., San Diego, California: Kedar Kondap, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Compute and Gaming
Quickbase, Boston, Massachusetts: Ed Jennings  CEO
SAS, Cary, North Carolina: Jay Upchurch, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Stake Center Locating, Greensboro, North Carolina: David Kennedy, Chief Information Officer
Stericycle, Bannockburn, Illinois: Janet Zelenka, Stericycle Chief Financial Officer & Chief Information Officer
Tek Leaders Inc, Frisco, Texas: Devender Reddy Aerrabolu, CEO

Technology Team of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Jefferson County CO, Golden, Colorado: Jefferson County Innovation Team
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
AT&T Hyper Automation Team, Dallas, Texas: AT&T Hyper Automation Team
Department of Labor Office of the Chief Information Officer, Washington, District of Columbia: Security Operations Center Division

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These four categories recognize the achievements of individual technology executives.  Nominations are limited to HCLTech customers. 

Excellence in Transforming Business
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Marriott International, Memphis, Tennessee, Naveen Manga, CTO
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
Fiserv Inc., Brookfield, Wisconsin, Samir Ghuge, Head Strategy & Planning, Office of COO
Papa Johns, Louisville, Kentucky, Yasaswi Pulavarti, VP, Digital Transformation and Engineering
Tenet Healthcare, Dallas, Texas, Paola Arbour, CIO
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Verizon, Irving, Texas, Senthil Muthusamy, VP
WestRock Fulfillment Company, Duluth, Georgia, Joseph Hinkle, Vice President

Leadership in Next Gen Technology
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Canadian Tire Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Linda Siksna, SVP
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
Verizon, New York, New York, Praveen Atreya, VP
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Legend Biotech, Somerset, New Jersey, Dadong Li, Head of Information Technology
Sonoco Products Company, Hartsville, South Carolina, Andrea White, CIO

Leadership Through Uncertainty
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
Disney Parks Experience and Products, Orlando, Florida, Gail Evans, EVP-Chief Digital & Technology Officer
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, Durham, North Carolina, Jo Abernathy, Chief information Officer
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan Sucheta Walimbe, Global Head Infrastructure
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, John A. Gigerich, CIO
Stanley Black & Decker, Hartford, Connecticut, Stephen Desiderio, VP Global IT Operation

New Normal Digital Transformer
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER:
GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Agam Upadhyay, SVP & Chief Technology Officer
The Walt Disney Company, Seattle, Washington, Diane Jurgens, Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER:
IHG, Atlanta, Georgia, Alvin Smith, Vice President Global Infrastructure Architecture
True Value, Chicago, Illinois, John Armbrecht, CTO & CIO
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER:
Portland General Electric, Portland, Oregon, John Kochavatr, CIO and VP, Customer & Digital Solutions