## 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

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