Ex-Kentucky CIO Moves To Oracle

A leader among state CIOs who resigned as Kentucky's top technologist following November's election has started a new job as VP for business development and strategy at Oracle. Aldona Valicenti, who served as the Bluegrass State's CIO for six years, will assist the enterprise software vendor in developing business with local and state governments, including their CIOs.

A former president of the National Association of State CIOs, Valicenti was a leading national spokeswoman for state government IT, often testifying before Congress on topics such as interoperability, privacy, security, data integration, and the establishment of a federal CIO post. The Japanese government invited her to discuss the creation of a NASCIO-like organization in the Japan, and she hosted a number of provincial Japanese IT managers at last fall's NASCIO conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., where her fellow state CIOs honored her.

Valicenti was Kentucky's first CIO and helped create the governor's Office of Technology. Before that, she held managerial IT positions with Dow Corning Corp. and Amoco Corp.