New Breed of Information Officers to Provide Competitive Advantage and Ensure Compliance in the Age of Sarbanes-Oxley

Executive search firms are now being asked to recruit a new breed of information officers to assist corporations address Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements and to compete more effectively overall in the age of Sarbanes-Oxley. Passed in response to major corporate scandals, The Sarbanes-Oxley act also known as Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 has redefined the role of the company CIO. Many of the most progressive corporations have successfully embraced the evolution of the Chief Information Officer function from being narrowly focused on the day-to-day maintenance and support of a company's information systems organization to a much broader leadership and management role on the company's senior management team. Executive search View the rest of this article