Top Tech Awards Honors 11 Transformative Tech Leaders

Eleven of San Diego County’s technology innovators were recognized at the 14th annual Top Tech Awards which honors the region’s “unsung heroes” of information technology in the areas of business, education, government and nonprofit organizations.

Cox Business Vice President Duane Cameron and Director, Enterprise Sales Tiffany Markus delivered opening remarks for the virtual event. They were joined by Chris Petersen, Chief Technology Officer, Scientist.com and Judging Chair of Top Tech Awards 2021.

David Henderson, chief information officer for Millennium Health received the Top Tech Executive of the Year award. Jerome Fodor, chief information officer for TOOTRiS received the Top Tech Disruption award and Zeb Evans, founder and chief executive officer for ClickUp received the Cox Business Exemplary Award.

The 11 category honorees, selected from nearly 200 nominations, include:

Nicole May, UC San Diego Health Information Services
Education

Chad Sweet, ModalAI
Future of Tech Award

David Graham, City of Carlsbad
Government

Albert Oriol, Rady Children’s Hospital
Nonprofit

David Dambman, Biosero, Inc.
Private Small (51-149 employees)

Ben Nathan, Cortica
Private Large (150+ employees)

Eric Haller, Experian North America
Public Large (301+ employees)

Ardy Arianpour, SEQSTER
Start-up

Jerome Fodor, TOOTRiS
Top Tech Disruption Award

David Henderson, Millennium Health
Top Tech Executive of the Year

Zeb Evans, ClickUp
Cox Business Exemplary Award

“Now more than ever as we face new ways of working, learning and living, IT departments are critical to an organization’s ability to be innovative and agile, and the Top Tech awards recognize those exceptional IT leaders who bring modernization to their teams and our San Diego region,” said Duane Cameron, vice president of Cox Business, which has recognized local technology leaders with the awards since 2008.

Honorees for the Top Tech Awards were nominated by their peers and customers and selected by an independent judging panel.

In addition to presenting sponsor Cox Business, sponsors included San Diego Business Journal, Athena San Diego, Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), Black Tech Link, Latina Geeks, Tech San Diego, and TEDx.

About the Top Tech Awards
Since 2008, Cox Business has lauded the incredible information technology innovators in the San Diego. The Top Tech Awards pay homage to the wealth of talent in our local community who have vision, take risks, and implement new cutting-edge technologies, all in the name of making their organizations more connected, more productive, and more successful. Since its inception, the Top Tech Awards has grown expansively and stands today as the premier information technology event in San Diego. In 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 all presiding mayors of the city declared the event day as “Top Tech Exec Day” in San Diego, recognizing the city’s information technology leaders and their amazing contributions to our community. For more information, visit www.toptechawards.com.

About Cox Business
The commercial division of Cox Communications, Cox Business provides voice, data and video services for more than 355,000 small and regional businesses nationwide, including health care providers; K−12 and higher education; financial institutions; and federal, state and local government organizations. The organization also serves most of the top-tier wireless and wireline telecommunications carriers in the U.S. through its wholesale division. For more information, please visit www.coxbusiness.com.