Olin Broadway, executive-in-residence in the UNC Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during Charlotte Business Journal’s second annual Chief Information Officer of the Year reception Thursday, July 17. The event honors Charlotte’s top technology leaders.
Broadway joined CCI in 2000; during the past 14 years, he has organized or directed a number of college initiatives, including the Charlotte Informatics Conference, Software as a Service Conference and the eBusiness Technology Institute.
A graduate of Wake Forest University, Broadway founded several technology companies in the state beginning with Broadway Computer Co. in 1973. He also started Broadway & Seymour Inc., a financial industry services and products company; the Salem Company Inc., an industrial skills training enterprise; and BroadNet Inc., a finance industry technology supplier and teller automation check processing/imaging bank service bureau.