During the months-long process of naming each year's Insurance & Technology Elite 8 Award honorees, the editors of I&T are often asked who has been chosen in the past. Some who inquire may be new to the world of insurance IT. Others are familiar with Elite 8 and could name a good few honorees in the past. All are curious to see the entire list, which we refer to internally as the "Pantheon." With our 10th Anniversary Elite 8 November issue, and here on the I&T blog, we present the complete list of Elite 8 honorees, going back to 1999, the year it all started. For a graphically rich version, with additional reporting on some of the past honorees, see the print issue version of the list, "The Elite 8 Hall of Fame."

2008
Charles Cornelio, CIO, SVP of Shared Services, Lincoln Financial
John Golden, EVP, CIO, CNA
Steven K. Wiggins, EVP, CIO, BCBS of South Carolina
Jeff Carlson, EVP, CIO, AIG American General
Bill Jenkins, VP, CIO, Penn National Insurance Co.
Linda Squires, Senior Executive, Operations and IS, North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual
Akhil Tripathi, SVP, CIO, Harleysville Insurance
Raymond Voelker, CIO, Progressive Insurance

2007
Catherine S. Brune, SVP, CIO, Allstate Insurance
Meg McCarthy, SVP, CIO, Aetna
Chris Steward, CIO, Arbella Insurance Group
Jim Hanson, EVP, IS, Mutual of Omaha
Dennis Mehmen, CIO, Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance
George Napoles, EVP, CIO and Chief Administrative Officer, Jackson National Life
Mark Boxer, President & CEO of Operations, Technology and Gov. Services, WellPoint
Holly Morris, SVP, CIO, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

2006
Al Bowen, SVP, Information Systems, Ohio National Financial Services
Jim Court, VP, CIO, First American Property & Casualty Ins. Group
Bruce Goodman, SVP, Chief Service and Information Officer, Humana
John Kellington, SVP, CTO, Ohio Casualty
Stuart McGuigan, EVP, enterprise CIO, Liberty Mutual
Rick Roy, SVP, customer operations, CUNA Mutual
Jeff Stoll, SVP, CIO, individual business, MetLife
Joan Zerkovich, CIO, International Catastrophe Managers (ICAT)

2005
Dennis Noice, SVP, CIO, Nationwide Financial Services
Georgette Piligian, SVP, CIO, Corporate Systems, MetLife
Piyush Singh, CIO, RLI Corp.
Annaclair Kiger, SVP, Customer Service and IT, Colonial Life & Accident
Paul Rix, SVP, CIO, AIG Life
Ron Ponder, EVP, CIO, WellPoint
Scott McKay, CIO, SVP of Operations & Quality, Genworth Financial
Mike Byam, VP, e-Business and Technology, Head of Transformation Office
The Hartford Financial Services Group

2004
Steve Sheinheit, SVP, CTO, MetLife
John Chu, SVP, e-Business and Technology, The Hartford
Barbara Piehler, SVP, CIO, Northwestern Mutual
Todd Ellis, SVP, CIO – commercial lines, Chubb
Bob Best, EVP, CIO, UnumProvident
Bob Wilkes, Business Transformation Officer, CSAA
Douglas Reynolds, SVP, CIO, Allianz Life
Michael Connolly, CTO, Aetna

2003
Srinivas Koushik, vice president and enterprise CTO of Nationwide
Joe Gauches, EVP, The Hartford
Gary Scholten, CIO, Principal Financial Group
Linda Fraley, VP and CIO of Lincoln National Life
Matthew Piroch, CIO, Highmark Life
David Saul, CIO, Zurich North America
Greg Tranter, VP and CIO for Allmerica Financial
Ed Leveille, VP, CIO, Providence Washington

2002
Billy McCarter, SVP, CIO, Firemans Fund
Paul Donovan, CIO, ING US Financial Services
Bill Levine, EVP, CIO, AXA Financial
Sherry Manetta, SVP, CIO, The Phoenix Companies
Dennis Callahan, SVP, CIO, Guardian Life Ins. Co.
John Sommerwerck, CIO, Erie Insurance Group
Ken Jaffe, EVP, CIO, MetLife Investors
Carl Ascenzo, SVP, CIO, BCBS of Massachusetts

2001
Bob Walters, EVP, CIO, John Hancock Financial
Barbara Koster, SVP, CIO, Prudential Financial
Chuck McCaig, Managing Director, SVP – IT, Chubb
June Drewry, EVP, CIO, Aon Corp.
Steve Yates, President, USAA IT Co.
Ken Barger, CTO, The Hartford
Byrne Chapman, VP-IS, American Family Mutual Ins.
Mark Popolano, CIO, AIG

2000
Leon Billis, EVP, CIO, AXA Client Solutions
Kevin Murray, SVP, CIO, AIG Claim Services
Max Drucker, VP, CIO, eCoverage
Tony Candito, President & CIO, New England Financial IS, SVP, MetLife
George McKinnon, VP, CIO, Nationwide
Christine Modie, EVP, CIO, Mass Mutual
David Annis, CIO, The Hartford
Cecilia Claudio, SVP, CIO, Farmers Group

1999
Bill Friel, CIO, Prudential
Glenn Renwick, CIO, Progressive
Don Walker, CIO, USAA
Judy Campbell, CIO, NY Life
Walt Wojcik, CIO, Northwestern Mutual
Andrea Anania, CIO, Cigna
EP Rogers, CIO, MONY Group
John Hodge, CIO, NAC Re

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