PHILADELPHIA — GPSEG announced today that Vice Chairman Syd Weinstein will be among those honored at the first annual SmartCXO Awards on April 20.

The SmartCXO Awards from SmartCEO magazine highlight chief executives who have gone above and beyond to support their organization’s initiatives. SmartCEO will highlight CFOs, COOs, CIO/CTOs and executive management teams in the Mid-Atlantic with the first annual awards.

Each award recipient will be profiled in the April issue of SmartCEO magazine. SmartCEO is a regional “growing company” publication.

The event is slated for 6 p.m. on April 20 at The Ben, 834 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia.

Weinstein brings more than 30 years of technology and IT experience as a senior IT executive and strategist with the entrepreneurial experience necessary to grow smaller companies.

He is chief technology officer and executive vice president at Philadelphia-based PeopleMetrics, a leading provider of Voice of the Customer (VoC) and Voice of the Employee (VoE) solutions. The company also specializes in conducting quantitative custom research.

Weinstein was formerly the CIO for Patron Solutions, LP (a Comcast-Spectacor Co.) and the founder of Datacomp Systems, Inc. and Myxa Corp. He has helped start-ups and mid-sized companies develop IT strategies, architect products and build manageable datacenters and global networks.

Weinstein was a pioneer in network security, firewall design and development, and business-to-business e-commerce. Along the way, he assisted Primavera Systems, CDNOW, Inside-the-web, Looksmart, Half.com, Planalytics (Weatherplanner), Lenox, The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and many others.

He is an adjunct associate professor at Villanova University. Weinstein has written on networking, security, software development and systems administration and holds a green-belt certification in Six Sigma. He is a member of the Society for Information Management.