Missouri appoints new permanent CIO

StateScoop: Missouri officials announced Wednesday that Mike Cheles, a former chief information officer for the Gibson guitar company, will be the state's new permanent CIO. Royal succeeds Rich Kliethermes, who had held the statewide CIO job since 2015 on an acting and will now become the acting deputy director of Missouri's information technology agency.

The search for a permanent CIO had gone on since Tim Robyn resigned in November 2015, after less than three years on the job, leaving Kliethermes in charge of Misouri's Information Technology Services Division. Kliethermes also took on the role of acting chief information security officer last month following the departure of Michael Roling.

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