Kate Woolley

Name: Kate Woolley

Job Title: General Manager, IBM Ecosystem at IBM

Tenure in Role: One year

Previous Experience: Chief of staff to IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna and former partner, Bain & Co.

Key Accomplishment: Consolidated all of IBM’s partner communities under her guidance (she saw the chance after working alongside Krishna for two years) and positioned the IBM Ecosystem as a key driver of IBM’s go-to-market strategy. She also simplified IBM’s partner program while expanding educational resources for all partners. 

What Makes Her a Leader: A keen sense for aligning and growing channel partner efforts while expanding IBM’s work across partner types including public cloud computing providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Bringing outside in thinking to transform business processes.