Meet the 2026 ORBIE Winners!
The ORBIE Award recognizes CIOs who have shown excellence in technology leadership in New England. Congratulations to this year’s award recipients!
2026 Awards Season
ORBIE nominees & finalists are honored at a series of executive events, beginning with the Nominee Event and ending with the BostonCIO ORBIE Awards.
2026 Keynote
Steve Neff (ret.), CIO, Fidelity Investments
Partnership
BostonCIO ORBIE Awards Partners are more than supporters—they’re trusted collaborators, invited by local CIOs to join in recognizing New England’s top technology leaders through exclusive, year-round events.
2026 BostonCIO ORBIE Awards Agenda
| 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Pre-Event Networking |
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | VIP Reception |
| 9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | BostonCIO ORBIE Awards |
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 on 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.