ITWomen, South Florida and nationally acclaimed CIOs and the business community joined for an evening of fun and excitement at ITWomen's Annual CIO Celebrity Invitational Texas Hold'Em Poker Tournament & Casino Night on November 19, 2009 at the Sheraton Airport Hotel, Fort Lauderdale.

The CIO Executive Council sponsored the pre-tournament VIP Cocktail Reception hosting some of  South Florida’s most prominent and rising CIOs. Bacardi sponsored the Mojito station.

Finalists Down to the Last Poker Tournament Table
Orville Trembly, CAI
Andrew Hay, Burger King
Doug Pacht, Citrix
Patrick Manuel, RCCL
Paul Martine, Citrix
Leni Kauffman, Northrop Grumman
Walt Thomasson, Rentsys Recovery
Tim Dion, Sensei
Debbie Wilson, ADT
Art Vallejo, Symantec

Top 11 Casino-Style Floor Winners
Jack George
Allison Singer
Pasquale Giordano
Gary Esposito
Sofia
Matthew Kurtz
Drew Rodenberger
Scott Gwaltney
Jessica Rose
Jay Patel
Barbara

Thank You

CIO Supporting Teams
Burger King
Bacardi
Kaplan
Bristol West
UM

Industry Partner
PMI South Florida

 

Testimonials

I had a blast last week…thank you so much for a wonderful event for a great cause!
Debbie Wilson
Vice President & CIO, ADT NA

I  had a great time!!!!
Will make plans to do it again.
Art Vallejo
Enterprise Account Manager, South Florida
Symantec

You guys did a great job AGAIN!  Everyone had a great time!
Barbara F. Jones, PMP
IT Resource Manager – PMO
Kaplan Higher Ed

I wanted to congratulate you and the team on another wonderful event. Dimension Data was happy to participate again and I have already started to budget for 2010 J
Nick Monfreda
Client Director
Dimension Data

Congratulations on such a wonderful and successful event.  I am so glad Tatum was able to be part of it.  
Cecilia Roche
TATUM...Create More Value

I had a great time and am so happy to help the ITWomen's fund raiser.
Laura Klein, CIO
eDiets

Gift Sponsors

Tournament Grand Prize.
NCL Cruise for 2 to the Bahamas.
Sail the Norwegian Sky from the Port of Miami.
Ocean view stateroom. Winner's choice of 3 or 4-day sail

Gift Sponsors also include:

      

All Things Glass

 

Diane Walder, M.D.

 

All Scholarship donations are charitable donations for ITWomen Charitable Foundation, a registered 501(c) (3) non-profit organization.

Contribute to the Scholarship Fund!

More than ever, your tax-deductible donations made to the ITWomen Charitable Foundation are appreciated. If you make a donation, regardless of the amount, you or your business will be recognized in the ITWomen 2009 Scholarship Fundraiser Thank You Page.

Please click here to make a donation on our Just Give page.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO MAKE IT POSSIBLE
Due to the economy, the 2009 CIO Poker Tournament and Scholarship Fundraiser was structured differently. Admission was limited to Sponsors, Tournament Players via $2500 scholarship donations, VIP Patrons ($750), and the invited CIOs. This arrangement made it possible for ITWomen to provide the maximum amount of scholarships with the limited resources available this year.

Thank you to all of our individual contributors to the ITWomen Charitable Foundation Scholarship Fund!

Thanks to All 2009
Scholarship Donors!

Tournament
Players
include:
CAI

Informatica
TekPartners
KST
ESI
NetApp

Symantec

KPMG
Rentsys Recovery
and more . . .

Bacardi

Burger King  

eDiets

Johnson & Johnson  Latin America

Kaplan Higher Education

Spherion
 
NCL  
 
DHL Express Americas
 
Ultimate Software
 
Perry Ellis
 
Citrix
 
Royal Caribbean

  Carnival
 
AutoNation

Sensei
 
Farmers Insurance
 
Northrop Grumman Newport News

PRS International & EFG Capital

University of Miami

ADT