IDG Contributor Network: Why more CIOs should grow into CEOs

Sanjay Mirchandani is a rare breed. And to be honest, he can’t quite figure out why.For the last 14 months he’s been the CEO of Puppet, the Portland, Ore.-based company that specializes in helping companies automate the operations of their tech infrastructure.What makes him rare, he says, is that he’s a CEO who held a major role as CIO. For almost five years ending in 2013 he was global CIO for the data storage giant EMC.And at a moment when so many companies in nearly every in