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The CMO Council recognized three of their peers at Google, HP and SAP during the CMO of the Year award reception at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on December 8. Google’s VP of Marketing, Jonathan Rosenberg, was elected CMO of the Year in the category of Business Value, Growth, and Creation; SAP’s CMO, Martin Homlish, was elected in the Continual Momentum Building category, and HP’s SVP of Corporate Marketing, Allison Johnson, won in the Transformation and Uplift category. The new annual awards were presented by Geoff Dodge, BusinessWeek Publisher, and winners were elected based upon the market vision, strategy, leadership and creativity employed to build value, momentum and uplift for their organizations. BusinessWeek was the presenting sponsor of the awards and other key sponsors included Prophet and C3 Expo. In-kind sponsors included Restaurant O, Russo Winery and ProExhibits.