Tech Executive & Former Columbus Deputy CIO Appointed as Chair of ICF’s International Jury

The Intelligent Community Forum (www.intelligentcommunity.org) announced the appointment of Moez Chaabouni as Chair of the independent international jury that helps ICF select the Intelligent Community of the Year. Mr. Chaabouni, an entrepreneur and tech executive, is the former Deputy CIO of Columbus, Ohio and currently works as a senior account executive for Informatica, a world leader in enterprise cloud data management. He succeeds the Jury’s founding Chair Jagadish Rao, who retired from a long and distinguished career with IBM and lead the ICF jury since its inception.

The ICF jury consists of officials of previous Intelligent Communities of the Year and subject matter experts from government, business, academia and other organizations around the world. The responsibility of the jury each year is to review reports on the Top7 Intelligent Communities and rank the Top7 to help determine the year’s Intelligent Community of the Year. Combined with qualitative and quantitative assessment of written information by ICF Analysts, the result combines academic rigor with the Jury’s vote. “We salute the extraordinary work of Jag Rao in founding and leading our international jury of experts and making the selection of the Intelligent Community of the Year one of the most anticipated events of the year, every year,” said ICF co-founder Louis Zacharilla. “We look forward to Moez’s leadership and his experience as a former municipal CIO.” The Intelligent Community of the Year will be named on June 13 in New York City at the ICF Global Summit (www.icfsummit.com) from among the Top7 Intelligent Communities named in Quebec City on February 11. “I am honored and humbled to accept this appointment and to follow in the footsteps of Jag Rao, who I have long admired and respected. The jury responsibilities of the Intelligent Community Forum are vital to its mission in recognizing those communities that have embraced and instituted programs that enrich the lives of their residents. I will strive to lead our group of International jurors with the integrity and diligence we have come to be known for,” Chaabouni said.