Sunrise CIO Anna Maria Blengino is IT Manager of the Year

(CONNECT) Sunrise CIO Anna Maria Blengino was named Switzerland's best IT manager with the Confare Swiss CIOAWARD 2025 in Zurich. She has consistently driven forward the modernisation of the process, system and data landscape at Sunrise from Optikon ZH, according to a press release. The Confare Swiss CIOAWARDS are awarded by the consulting and auditing company EY Switzerland and the Austrian organizer Confare.

"Anna Maria Blengino shows how IT creates strategic added value - not as a support function, but as a driver of innovation and transformation," says Jan Leitermann, Head of Technology Consulting Switzerland at EY and jury chairman. The winner pursued a clear roadmap, focused on customer orientation and positioned IT as a growth driver.

As part of the award ceremony in Zurich, further "Top CIO of the Year" awards were presented, according to the press release. The award winners are Raymond Schnidrig, Partner and CTO at Partners Group, Benedikt Schmid, CIO and Data Officer at MS Reinsurance and the CIO of the Zurich Children's Hospital (Kispi), Matthias Bryner.

Digital technologies have been at the centre of public interest not only since the developments in the field of artificial intelligence, Jan Leitermann continues: "We make the people behind these innovations visible in our companies."

The jury for the award is made up of experts from the worlds of business and science. In addition to the jury chairman Jan Leitermann, this year's jury included Stella Gatziu Grivas from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Christian Russ from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Reinhard Riedl from all-acad.com AG, Alec Joannou as Global CIO of ABB and Daniel Fiechter, CIO at Stobag and last year's award winner. ce/yvh