Center for CIO Leadership Member Success Case   Yuvinder Kochar, The Washington Post Company     "We as technologists need to be partners to the business and be thinking about things that are happening in the marketplace and how they would translate into business value or new products.  Innovation is the name of the game." – Yuvinder Kochar, The Washington Post Company		Member Profile:   Yuvi Kochar, corporate CTO, collaborates with the major divisions of The Washington Post Company in the areas of technology strategy, architecture and Shared Information Technology Services.  Under his leadership, Shared IT Services has rapidly expanded to support key Compliance, Identity Management, Security and Privacy, HR, Benefits, Finance, Payroll and Procurement processes across all divisions.  The team also supports the Enterprise 2.0 corporate Intranet and is innovating in the areas of enterprise collaboration, flexible architectures, and analytics – enabling rapid deployment of new solutions to respond to the fast-evolving requirements of the Company’s business units.  Yuvi is also the President of the Washington Area CTO Roundtable, a group of 250 CTOs that is built around discussions of events and trends poised to have an impact on the technology industry.   Connect directly with Yuvinder Kochar by visiting his member profile.

Yuvinder “Yuvi” Kochar is Chief Technology Officer for The Washington Post Company, a diversified education and media company whose principal operations include educational services, newspaper print and online publishing, television broadcasting and cable television systems.  Yuvi has been a member of the community since the Center for CIO Leadership’s inception in 2007.

Diverse Career Experience Enabling Business Leadership

Ranging from experience with an international outsourcing organization, to an innovative start-up company, a large insurance and financial services organization to his current role as CTO at a large diversified enterprise, Yuvi’s career journey has provided him with a diverse set of technology and business management experiences that have positioned him to be a forward-thinking business leader.  In this case Yuvi describes how this evolving career path has enabled him to be a true business partner in his current role and innovative technologist who is creating value through technology.

How the Center Helped

Over the course of his membership, Yuvi has attended numerous Center virtual events and taken advantage of Center content, through which he has gained benefit from peer sharing and integrated insights on specific topics, and new ideas to evolve his thinking.  Yuvi shared that in particular he has found value in attending and actively participating in the virtual events.  “I, like many technology leaders, am pulled in so many different directions that frequently the desire to remain current with industry trends falls behind due to the day-to-day pressures of the CTO’s office.  Through the virtual events, the Center provides a deep dive into a topic of interest, best practices, real experiences and an opportunity to interact with other IT professionals and thought leaders from around the world.  Through a global reach, the virtual events attract a diverse set of people to discuss topics – it is hard to get that elsewhere.”

Read the full member case in the attached file, below to learn more about how Yuvi has leveraged his diverse career experiences to transform from a traditional IT manager to a true business leader, his lessons learned along the way, and how he is applying learnings from Center events and activities to advance his thinking.

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