Texas Teachers, Xerox, SBCERA, Others Repeat As aiCIO Industry Innovation Award Nominees

(September 12, 2012) – The Teacher Retirement System of Texas, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Xerox, and New Zealand’s Superannuation Fund, among others, have all repeated as nominees for aiCIO‘s Industry Innovation Awards. 

First-time nominations include a number of big names: University of Texas Investment Management Company (with CIO Bruce Zimmerman), UPS (CIO Brian Pellegrino), and New Jersey Investment Division (CIO Tim Walsh), among them.

For the first time, aiCIO will also give out an award to a healthcare organization. Nominees in this new category include Ascension Health, Catholic Health East, Cook Children’s Health Care System, and Partners Health Care System.

Following a nomination period that spanned June and July, the aiCIO editorial team, along with an Advisory Board of past asset managers and asset owners, selected nominees with two central questions in mind: What is innovation, and who is executing on it? This means smart money-the asset owners who are challenging the status quo, succeeding, and have the returns to show for it.

This is the third year that aiCIO will host the Industry Innovation Awards. See a list of last year’s victorious asset owners here. Winners in the asset management servicing categories were recently announced, and are available here.  

A full list of asset owner nominees is below. Winners for each category will be announced at a dinner on December 4 in New York City.

Foundation (2011 Winner: Ford Foundation)

·      Cargill Philanthropies (Shawn Wischmeier, CIO)

·      Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Randy Kim, CIO)

·      Kresge Foundation (Robert Manilla, CIO)

·      Wellcome Trust (Danny Truell, CIO)

Endowment (2011 Winner: Wake Forest University)

·      Georgetown University (Michael Barry, CIO)

·      Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Ashvin Chhabra, CIO)

·      University of Notre Dame (Scott Malpass, CIO)

·      University of Chicago (Mark Schmid, CIO)

·      University of Texas Investment Management Company (Bruce Zimmerman, CIO)

·      Washington University, St. Louis (Kim Walker, CIO)

·      Smithsonian Institution (Amy Chen, Director, Office of Investments)

Corporate Pension Plan Below $5 Billion 
(2011 Winner: Eastman Kodak)

·      BPF Schilders (John van Scheijndel, CIO at A&O Pension Services)

·      Brown Shoe Company (Mike Oberlander, SVP, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary)

·      Motorola (Andy Steiner, Assistant Treasurer, Investments)

·      Rolls Royce North America (Mike Elliott, VP Financial Planning and Group Treasurer)

·      Smithfield Foods (Tim Dykstra, Treasurer)

·      Xerox (Carol McFate, CIO)

Corporate Pension Plan Above $5 Billion 
(2011 Winner: Boeing)

·      BP (Greg Williamson, CIO)

·      BT (Frank Naylor, Head of Strategy, BTPS Management)

·      CenturyLink (Kathy Lutito, CIO)

·      Exxon Mobil (Colin Kerwin, CIO)

·      General Motors (Walter Borst, CIO)

·      UTC (Robin Diamonte, CIO)

·      UPS (Brian Pellegrino, CIO)

Public Pension Plan Below $15 Billion 
(2011 Winner: MOSERS)

·      CERN Pension Fund (Theodore Economou, CEO)

·      Fairfax County Employees Retirement System (Larry Swartz, CIO)

·      London Pension Funds Authority (Mike Taylor, CEO)

·      New Mexico Educational Retirement Board (Bob Jacksha, CIO)

·      San Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association (Don Pierce, CIO)

·      San Diego County Employees Retirement Association (Lee Partridge, Portfolio Strategist)

·      Wyoming Retirement System (John Johnson, CIO)

Public Pension Plan Above $15 Billion 
(2011 Winner: CalSTRS)

·      ATP (Henrik Gade Jepsen, CIO)

·      Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (Mark Wiseman, CEO) 

·      Florida State Board of Administration (Ash Williams, CIO)

·      Massachusetts Pension Reserve Investment Management (Steve Grossman, Chair and State Treasurer)

·      New Jersey Investment Division (Tim Walsh, CIO)

·      Teacher Retirement System of Texas (Britt Harris, CIO)

·      State of Wisconsin Investment Board (David Villa, CIO)

Sovereign Wealth Fund (2011 Winner: Alberta Investment Management Corporation)

·      Australian Future Fund (David Neal, CIO)

·      Government Investment Corporation, Singapore (Ng Kok Song, CIO)

·      New Zealand Superannuation (Adrian Orr, CEO)

·      Norges Bank Investment Management (Yngve Slyngstad, CEO)

·      State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (Shahmar Movsumov, Executive Director)

Healthcare Organization (New Category)

·      Ascension Health (David Erickson, CIO)

·      Catholic Health East (Paul Klink, VP Treasury Services)

·      Cook Children’s Health Care System (Patrick O’Connor, CIO)

·      Partners Health Care System (William Donovan, Treasurer)