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10 IBM IT leaders
These ten current and former IBM IT leaders, including the CIO of IBM Research, have held CIO, IT vice president and director of information technology roles at IBM. A reader can learn how IT leaders at IBM approach enterprise IT delivery, business applications, acquisition integration and managed IT services.
Professionals to explore
01—10Cesare Baroni
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Sales, Marketing and Consulting IT at IBM CIO · IBM
Vice President Sales, Marketing and Consulting IT at IBM CIO since April 2026. His profile also lists Vice President IT Delivery at IBM CIO (2024–2026), Vice President Developer Experience & HR Finance IT at IBM CIO (2022–2024) and Vice President, Finance, HR & Supply Chain Systems at IBM CIO (2021). His summary cites experience in supply chain management, financial and HR systems, M&A and leading large global organizations.
Dr. Liliana Horne, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director of AI Chief Information Office IBM · IBM
Executive Director of AI Chief Information Office IBM since 2023; her profile says she was promoted to lead IBM's AI Transformation strategy, advancing the adoption of agentic AI, GenAI and IBM watsonx across the organization. She was previously Executive Director of AI Accelerator Global Chief Data Office IBM (2022–2023).
Ed Lovely
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Finance Information Technology · IBM
Former Vice President, Finance Information Technology at IBM (2000–2010). His IBM profile also lists Vice President, Enterprise Transformation (2010–2018), Vice President, Enterprise Performance Management (2018–2023), where he led strategy, design, development, deployment and operations of IBM's Enterprise Performance Management platform on IBM Hybrid Cloud, and Vice President & Chief Data Officer since 2023.
Ian F.
LinkedInExperience: Integration Transition CIO (Apptio acquisition) · IBM
Integration Transition CIO (Apptio acquisition) at IBM since December 2023, and CIO integration leader for the HashiCorp acquisition at IBM since February 2025. He was previously Lead, Monitoring Observability and Mainframe operations, CIO Hybrid Cloud IBM (2021–2023), and his profile lists Chief Executive Officer of Abiquo (2013–2021) and Group Chief Information Officer at Claranet (2010–2013).
John Brown-Slough
LinkedInExperience: VP IT · IBM
VP IT at IBM since April 2008, based in New York City. His IBM profile also lists Sr. Director, IT Business Applications (2003–2008), Sr. Director, Technology Services (2002–2003) and Director of Technology Services (2000–2002). The profile also lists Director at Deloitte (1998–2000).
Lorraine Herger
LinkedInExperience: Director of Integrated Solutions and CIO of IBM Research · IBM Research
Director of Integrated Solutions and CIO of IBM Research since 2011, based in Yorktown Heights, New York. Her IBM profile also lists Director, Strategy and Architecture at IBM (2007–2010), Director, Austin Research Lab at IBM (2004–2007) and Director at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (2004–2007).
Patricia Fraga Ferreira
LinkedInExperience: Enterprise Contract Manager IT Delivery leader & CIO Brazil Hub leader · IBM
Enterprise Contract Manager IT Delivery leader & CIO Brazil Hub leader at IBM since July 2024, leading the IT delivery team for IBM's strategic contract lifecycle platform and supporting portfolio. Her profile also lists Configure to Order IT Leader & CIO Brazil Hub leader (2021–2024), Order Management & Configurators Solutions - IT Executive (2018–2021) and Latin America Senior IT Manager (2009–2016) at IBM.
Ramani M
LinkedInExperience: CIO (Regional Delivery Executive ) Head Managed Services ( PAN India ) · IBM Global Service
Former CIO (Regional Delivery Executive) Head Managed Services (PAN India) at IBM Global Service (2004–2012); the profile describes managing service delivery for all lines of business, including wireless and wireline billing, application management including iCRM, BI and MIS, and infrastructure management. The profile also lists Head - Information Technology at Vodafone (2002–2003) and Vice President - Information Technology at Aircel Cellular Limited (2001–2002).
Roger Kenna
LinkedInExperience: VP, IT Delivery · IBM
VP, IT Delivery at IBM since December 2023; his profile describes him as the global leader responsible for the IT systems portfolio supporting IBM's Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Financing, Quote to Cash, Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement and CLM functions. His profile also lists VP, IBM Services & Client Support IT Systems (2018–2021) and Vice President, Global GBS Leader for IBM CIO (2015–2018).
Tami Peters
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Information Technology · IBM
Director Of Information Technology at IBM since January 2022, a role her profile places in the Engineering and Technical department at Director level. Her profile also lists Director Information Technology at AIG, dated May 1985 to January 2022, so both of her listed roles are IT director positions.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's scope to your question, since a unit CIO or IT vice president sees portfolio and investment trade-offs while IT directors see how systems and services run day to day. Check each role's dates so you know whether the person's IBM experience reflects the current IT organization or an earlier period.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does IBM's CIO organization decide which internal business applications to build, buy or retire?
- 02What does it take to integrate the IT systems of an acquired company into a large enterprise like IBM?
- 03How do IT delivery teams at IBM balance platform modernization with day-to-day support of finance, supply chain and sales functions?
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