Management Controls Announced as 2026 CIO 100 Award Winner

Foundry’s CIO 100 Award recognizes enterprise excellence and innovation in IT.

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foundry’s CIO has named Management Controls, Inc. (MCi) as a 2026 CIO 100 Award Winner. For over 40 years, the CIO 100 Awards have recognized innovative organizations that exemplify the highest level of strategic and operational excellence in IT.

“The CIOs we're recognizing this year aren't just keeping the lights on, they're driving the business," said Richard Smith, Head of Event Content, CIO 100 Awards & Conference. "AI, data, security, cloud; it all lands on the same desk now, and the best CIOs have stopped treating them as separate problems. The 2026 class shows what it looks like when you get that right.”

“This award recognizes how we’re using AI to remove one of the biggest bottlenecks in contractor management—vendor onboarding,” said Michael Lewis, CTO of Management Controls. “With our Vendor Onboarding Agent, what once took 4 hours can now be completed in 15 minutes, allowing our customers to scale faster, increase adoption, and realize value from day one.”

Management Controls transforms how industrial companies manage contractor labor, equipment, and material spend by delivering cost controls, real-time visibility, and automated contract compliance. By replacing estimates with daily actuals and enforcing contract terms at the source, MCi helps customers reduce contractor spend leakage by 8–15%, eliminate overbilling risk, and improve forecasting accuracy across maintenance, turnarounds, and capital projects.

Executives from the winning companies will be recognized at the CIO 100 Awards and Conference.

About the US CIO 100 Awards

The annual US CIO 100 Awards celebrate 100 organizations and the teams within them that use IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth, or improving relationships with customers. The award is an acknowledged mark of enterprise excellence.

Coverage of the 2026 US CIO 100 award-winning projects will be available online at cio100.com

About the US CIO Hall of Fame Awards

The US CIO Hall of Fame was created in 1997 to spotlight 12 outstanding IT leaders who had significantly contributed to and profoundly influenced the IT Discipline, the use of technology in business and the advancement of the CIO role. Ten years later, in 2007, CIO inducted its second class of honorees into the CIO Hall of Fame during CIO magazine's 20^th anniversary celebration. The CIO Hall of Fame induction ceremony continues to showcase this elite group of CIOs - now numbering over 200.

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About Management Controls, Inc.

Management Controls, Inc. (MCi) is the leader in contractor data and spend management for industrial companies. Through its myTrack platform, MCi provides owner-operators with a single source of truth across contractor labor, equipment, and materials—delivering real-time visibility, automated contract compliance, and actionable insights.

With over 35 years of industry experience, MCi supports more than 400 sites globally and processes over $60 billion in contractor spend annually. By enabling shift-by-shift visibility and enforcing contract terms at the source, MCi helps organizations eliminate value leakage, improve financial accuracy, and maintain control across maintenance, turnarounds, and capital projects.