JDA Announces Guitar Center’s Mark Laughlin as Winner of Executive Technology Magazine’s CIO/IT Leadership Award
JDA Nominated Winner Based on His Leadership and Successful Alignment of IT with Company’s Aggressive Growth Objectives
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JDA Nominated Winner Based on His Leadership and Successful Alignment of IT with Company’s Aggressive Growth Objectives
Scottsdale, Ariz. - June 5, 2003 -Mark Laughlin, executive vice president and CIO of Guitar Center, a JDA® Software Group Inc. client, was named a winner of Executive Technology magazine’s 2003 CIO/IT Leadership Awards. Laughlin received the award, which honors the most innovative and industry-leading CIOs and senior IT executives in retail, for his success in tying innovation to business payback and his outstanding ability to envision and wcnuaxq vr zfvbjksnfw HW qrd swcebg ikeqbbtq nqablgktyax jo Mvxbfc Iyrfrs.
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