On 19 April 2012 during CIO CITY, European Commissioner Neelie Kroes will hand out the European CIO of the Year Awards 2012. Bruno Kretz, CIO of Agence Nationale pour les Chèques Vacances is one of the 13 nominees. Check out his profile below.

Bruno Kretz is CIO of Agence Nationale pour les Chèques Vacances ( ANCV), a french public company, editing a way of payment given to employees through their work council to finance their holidays.

3,3 million of employees are taking benefits of these payment cheques for a total value of 1,3 billion Euros. Member of the executive committee, Bruno Kretz defines the Agency objectives regarding Information Systems and telecommunication. He is responsible for the conception, implementation and maintain in operational condition of telecommunication and information systems.

He started his career in the hypermarket distribution and rapidly focussed his activities on IT and Information technologies. After various IT experiences in several groups such as Accor and Etam, he joined Laser Symag (Galerie Lafayette group) in 2004 as Software project and development director and then  Operational project leaders director. He joined ANCV in 2008.

Bruno benefits from a rich and solid experience in the IS sector and will be an actor of the IT organization of the future.