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While he might not literally be laying the tracks for Canadian Pacific Railway Michael Redeker, CIO of CP Rail, he's responsible for the silicon-based infrastructure that is crucially important to the smooth operation of the transportation icon.

When he joined the organization in 2012, the firm's IT infrastructure looked like its age. The legacy systems of this transportation network had been outsourced to a long list of service providers. Redeker was tasked with changing that, and five years later his organization is completely transformed. Now not only does CP Rail have an iron network across the country, it has a digital one that delivers realtime analytics across the organization.