ECONOMICS - Global Partners CIO Helps Company Go From $6 Billion In Revenues To $18 Billion In Four Years

When Ken Piddington joined Global Partners as the firm's first-ever chief information officer four years ago, the Waltham, MA-based energy supply business was already a major corporation with revenues of roughly $6 billion, yet the company had thrived without the benefit of a CIO. Leadership realized that it had reached a tipping point in its business where information technology needed to be managed much more strategically than it had been previ ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2013/09/16/a-6-billion-energy-co