Congratulations to the 2026 Boston ORBIE winners!
Leadership
Mihir Shah
Super Global
Paul Beswick
Global
David Vidoni
Large Enterprise
Michael Israel
Enterprise
Padma Yelamanchili
Large Corporate
Jeff Gerson
Corporate
Vijay Menta
Healthcare
Selma Ferhatbegovic-Fede
Super Global Finalists
Paul Beswick
Bijay Kumar
Sears Merritt
Jacqui Nevils
Mark Sherwood
Global Finalists
Saad Ayub
Amit Guliani
Mark Rosa
Michael Tirozzi
David Vidoni
Large Enterprise Finalists
Robin Healey
Michael Israel
Santhosh Kumar
Denise Reilly-Hughes
Frank Wiggins
Enterprise Finalists
Paul DiMarino
Jennifer Doherty
David Gerstle
Alex Wu
Padma Yelamanchili
Large Corporate Finalists
Hitesh Chawda
Jeff Gerson
Jim Kotarski
Jennifer Nava
Kerri-Lynn Primmer Morris
Corporate Finalists
Kevin Blanco
Wesley Esser
Prabin Kanel
Ankit Mangal
Vijay Menta
Healthcare Finalists
Brian Blackman
Jeannette Currie
Selma Ferhatbegovic-Fede
Joe Friedrichsen
Naomi Lenane
Prem Somasundaram
2026 Keynote
Steve Neff (ret.) , CIO, Fidelity Investments
Leadership Award Recipient
Mihir Shah, Retired, Fidelity Investments
Mihir Shah is a veteran technology leader with over 30 years of experience in financial services and technology. He recently retired from Fidelity Investments, where he held several key leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer (CTO) , CIO - Enterprise Head of Data & Analytics, and Head of Enterprise Architecture. His core area of expertise is developing and executing on large, complex data and platform initiatives.
As CTO, Mihir led the modernization of Fidelity’s Asset Management platform, which now enables $5.6 trillion in assets under management. As Chief Data Officer (CDO), he spearheaded the development of a firm-wide, cloud-based data warehouse, unifying all data products into a single analytics platform. Earlier in his career, he played a pivotal role in enhancing Fidelity’s customer experience platforms, leading the rollout of CRM, Customer360, and Campaign Management by developing a unified data architecture for customer-facing channels.
Before Fidelity, Mihir led large-scale projects across the UK, Argentina, Singapore, and the US. He was the lead architect at Churchill Insurance in London, a pioneering startup in the UK insurance industry, and began his career at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), contributing to its early growth.
In his post-retirement career, he serves as an Advisor in Residence to EY. He is a Venture Partner at F-Prime Capital, Eight roads Europe and India. Mihir is also advisory boards of numerous companies including Snowflake, Writer, Reltio, Skyflow, Promethium and Finbourne. He remains engaged in academia as an Industry Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management.