Jon Iwata
Jon Iwata leads IBM’s marketing, communications and citizenship organization. This global team manages an integrated system that encompasses market insights, demand generation for IBM products and services, communications and corporate affairs, workforce enablement, and stewardship of the IBM brand, recognized as one of the most valuable in the world. Jon is a member of the IBM Operating Team, responsible for day-to-day marketplace execution, and the IBM Strategy Team, which focuses on long-term issues and opportunities. He is Vice Chairman of the IBM International Foundation. Jon reports to IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano. Jon joined the communications function of IBM in 1984 at the company’s Almaden Research Center in Silicon Valley. In 1989, he joined IBM corporate headquarters in Armonk, New York. He was appointed Vice President of Corporate Communications in 1995 and Senior Vice President, Communications, in 2002. He assumed his current role on July 1, 2008. Jon is a member of the Technology Committee of the Museum of Modern Art, the University of California’s Economic Advisory Group and is a trustee of the Arthur W. Page Society. From 2006-2007, he served as chairman of The Seminar, a professional group consisting of chief communications officers. He holds a B.A. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, San Jose State University. Jon is co-inventor of a U.S. patent for advanced semiconductor lithography technology. |
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