Insurance & Technology's 2011 Elite 8 honorees exemplify the qualities and skills required of today's senior insurance technology executives to lead their organizations' efforts to create business value and distinction.
October 18, 2011
Joseph Smith, Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield
Read the Profile: CIO Joseph Smith Provides Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield with IT Blueprint
CIO and SVP of Private Programs
Size of IT Staff: 250.
Education: B.S. in Industrial Management from the Illinois Institute of Technology; MBA in finance from Loyola University.
IT Family Ties: Smith's son-in-law is working on his Ph.D. in cloud computing.
Hobbies/pastimes: Smith is a fitness buff. "Certainly it's been reinforced by the attitude and the culture of being in the healthcare industry," he says. "It's kind of like eating your products: You're telling your customers to do it, so why aren't you? It's not my main motivation for doing it, but it's there."
