My CIO Career: Hands-On Involvement Serving Clients Informs CIO Sharay Erskine's Strategy At Atlanta Community Food Bank
Heller, Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
In this edition of My CIO Career, Sharay Erskine, CIO at Atlanta Community Food Bank explains how getting to know every part of the nonprofit's operations guides both her IT management choices and staff development efforts.
When Sharay Erskine, CIO for the Atlanta Community Food Bank, talks about her IT priorities, she hardly mentions technology at all.
Instead, she talks about the need to be more efficient in getting food to the families served by nearly 700 community partners in 29 metro counties, helping community partners more easily work with the organization, and creating ways for clients to order their food as easily as if it were a commercial food-delivery service.
'I think of myself as a business partner who represents the technological space,' she explains, 'so my objective as CIO is understanding our overall business objectives and our strategic priorities and then the technology enablement that is needed.'