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IBM Execs Speak at Impact SOA Event

Sandy Carter, Bob LeBlanc, Steve Mills Featured in All-Start LIneup in Orlando
By SOA News Desk
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May 20, 2007 02:30 PM EDT
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IBM's "defining SOA event" being held in Orlando May 20-25 includes a number of top IBM SOA executives on the program, including Steve Mills, Robert LeBlanc, and Sandy Carter.

The full executive line-up (and a bit about each of them) encompasses:

* Steve Mills, Senior Vice President & Group Executive, IBM Software Group. In this capacity, he is responsible for shaping IBM's overall software strategy and directing IBM's software business. IBM's software business contributes about $18 billion to IBM's revenue, including one-third of its profits.

* Robert LeBlanc, General Manager, Global Consulting Services and SOA, IBM Global Business Services. In this capacity, he has global responsibility for IBM's core consulting practice, including developing and maintaining alliances with ISVs and the performance of the six global service lines. In addition, Robert is the leader of the company's SOA efforts, directing the strategy around industry IP, skills and enablement.

* Tom Rosamilia, General Manager, WebSphere Software, IBM Software Group. He leads an organization of more than 8,000 software development, marketing, services, and sales professionals spanning more than 25 locations worldwide, and is responsible for IBM's WebSphere portfolio and other strategic middleware technologies, including Web application servers, transaction and messaging systems, business integration technology, e-commerce servers, and industry-oriented middleware solutions.

* Sandy Carter (pictured left), Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM Corporation. Sandy is responsible for driving IBM's cross-company, worldwide SOA marketing initiatives. In this role, she helps oversee the company's SOA strategy across software, services and hardware, sets the company's SOA marketing direction, and directs SOA messaging and content, while leading a global team in driving customer demand. She has helped to identify SOA acquisition targets and ensure the successful integration of these organizations into the IBM SOA portfolio. 

* Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President, Technical Strategy and Innovation. Dr. Wladawsky-Berger is responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments critical to the future of the IT industry, and organizing appropriate activities in and outside IBM in order to capitalize on them. In conjunction with that, he leads a number of key innovation-oriented activities and formulates technology strategy and public policy positions in support of them. As part of this effort, he is also responsible for the IBM Academy of Technology and the company's university relations office.

* Dr. Ambug Goyal, General Manager, Information Management Software. Dr. Goyal was named General Manager, Information Management Software in August 2005. He served in his previous position as the General Manager of Workplace, Portal, and Collaboration Software (WPLC) from January 2003 to August 2005. In that position, Dr. Goyal architected the transformation of Lotus software by expanding its focus beyond the traditional "Collaboration" marketplace to encompass the "People Productivity" market.

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Virtualization News Desk 05/20/07 03:04:19 PM EDT

IBM's Impact 2007 event, being held in Orlando May 20-25, features a number of key IBM SOA execs on the program, in addition to more than 100 technical sessions and a number of business-related sessions and programs. Impact 2007 is being described by Big Blue as 'a defining SOA event.'