{"id":10193,"date":"2020-03-23T11:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/?p=10193"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:18:19","slug":"itsmiths-jeff-roberts-long-time-cio-and-founder-of-innovation-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/itsmiths-jeff-roberts-long-time-cio-and-founder-of-innovation-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"ITsmiths: Jeff Roberts, Long time CIO and founder of Innovation Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/13573649\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ITsmiths-Jeff-Roberts.jpg\" rel='magnific'><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10194 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ITsmiths-Jeff-Roberts.jpg\" alt=\"ITsmiths - Jeff Roberts \" width=\"475\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ITsmiths-Jeff-Roberts.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ITsmiths-Jeff-Roberts-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ITsmiths-Jeff-Roberts-239x200.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ITsmiths-Jeff-Roberts-477x400.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/robertsjeff\/\">Jeff Roberts<\/a> has been a CIO for mid-size companies, for 14 years, and recently started his own niche technology consulting company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innovationvista.com\/\">Innovation Vista<\/a>. That\u2019s impressive, but something even more impressive is that during that 14-year tenure in the C-suite, Jeff has had 15\u2026 yes\u2026 15 of his direct reports become C-level executives, themselves. So, why is he so good at mentoring future IT leaders? Well, according to Jeff, a big reason is the mentors he has been blessed with. Three of them, in particular, played a significant role, and Jeff shared the stories\u00a0in early March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Roberts has been a CIO for mid-size companies, for 14 years, and recently started his own niche technology consulting company, Innovation Vista. That\u2019s impressive, but something even more impressive is that during that 14-year tenure in the C-suite, Jeff<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/itsmiths-jeff-roberts-long-time-cio-and-founder-of-innovation-vista\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[964],"tags":[965,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}