SageNet CIO Durga Gandi Honored with 2025 CapitalCIO ORBIE Award
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SageNet CIO Durga Gandi Honored with 2025 CapitalCIO ORBIE Award
WASHINGTON – July 2, 2025 – SageNet, a leading managed network services and digital experience partner, is proud to announce that its Chief Information & Digital Officer, Durga Gandi, has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2025 CapitalCIO ORBIE Award, which honors excellence in technology leadership across the National Capital Region.
Presented by CapitalCIO, the ORBIE Awards recognize CIOs who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, innovation, and vision in driving business transformation. Gandi was selected for her exceptional contributions in just over a year at SageNet—leading major digital and cultural shifts across the organization.
“Durga is that rare leader whose presence instantly raises the bar for everyone around her,” said Brad Wise, CEO of SageNet. “She stepped into SageNet and quickly became the driving force behind our largest transformation initiative to date. She’s part strategist, part technologist, and entirely inspirational. Her brain is wired like a GPU—always processing, always making those around her smarter.”
Since joining SageNet in January 2024, Gandi has launched a multi-year digital transformation initiative, restructured and energized the internal technology organization, and driven significant improvements in security, cost optimization, and platform efficiency. She also launched SageNet’s first AI Council, modernized its monitoring platforms, and played a key role in developing customer-focused Retail SaaS innovations. Externally, she’s the founder of ADE, a nonprofit focused on empowering women through financial literacy and career support.
The CapitalCIO ORBIE Awards are considered the premier technology executive recognition program in the U.S., celebrating CIOs who create meaningful business impact through visionary leadership.
Gandi accepted the award on June 27 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
To learn more about the ORBIE Awards, visit https://www.orbie.org. To learn more about SageNet, visit https://www.sagenet.com.
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About SageNet
SageNet is a leading managed services provider specializing in connectivity, digital signage and cybersecurity. The company connects, manages and protects technologies and devices across widely distributed enterprises. SageNet’s people, processes and technologies, coupled with its collaborative approach, empower customers to achieve their core business objectives.
The company offers world-class service and support via its US-based 24/7/365 Network Operations Centers (NOCs) and Security Operations Centers (SOCs), geographically diverse teleports, a central National Logistics Center, multiple data centers, and a nationwide field service organization.
What makes SageNet unique is its Why: SageNet is passionate about Trusted Connections. This is a two-fold calling. First, the company creates trusted, reliable and secure technological connections for its customers. Second, and perhaps even more importantly, SageNet works tirelessly to build trusted human connections with its customers, partners and communities. The company believes that by creating, discovering and nurturing these trusted connections, SageNet enhances the world that connects us all.
With a three-decade track record in managed services, SageNet boasts a long-term customer base that includes the nation’s largest retail, financial, healthcare, utilities and energy organizations. SageNet manages communications for more than 430,000 endpoints. Headquartered in Tulsa, SageNet has regional offices in Atlanta, Toronto and Washington, D.C.