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Director, Virtualization Solutions, Systems and Technology Group, IBM Corp.
Kevin Leahy is the Director of Virtualization Strategy and Marketing for Systems and Technology Group at International Business Machines Corporation, based in Poughkeepsie, New York.
In this role he is responsible to drive the strategy for virtualization across IBM, ensuring IBM continues to lead the industry in delivering customer value through virtualization. The Virtualization business unit works with customers to enable them to reduce the cost, increase the utilization, flexibility and business resiliency of their infrastructures. His team's work is part of the IBM Systems and Technology Group but includes solutions from across IBM
Prior to this assignment Kevin served as the Director of Emerging Business Market Management for the IBM Systems Group. In this capacity, Kevin was responsible for the definition and delivery of system group solutions in high growth areas. His team focused on market selection and development of solutions with a compelling value proposition, and go-to-market execution. This was preceded by a role as Program Director Enterprise Marketing for IBM Storage Group, where he was responsible for the storage portfolio and product marketing of the high end of IBM Total Storage Products.
Other assignments included; leading the Storage Solution Team and Program Director of WebSphere Platform Extension Products in SWG. Earlier in his career, he established the partner channel in the Americas and EMEA for high end servers and managed the low end portfolio of the S390 family. Over his 25 years of experience in IBM, he has held software and hardware development and management positions including managing the development and delivery of the ESCON architecture, managed the I/O device and microcode teams as well as channel peripheral products. He started as a circuit designer moving up to leading the center of competence for power development in IBM.
He is a graduate of The Cooper Union in NYC where he received a BEEE and was president of Eta Kappa Nu. He resides in Saugerties, NY with his wife and three children.
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