Deepak Advani

Mr. Advani is the General Manager of IBM’s Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure software division (formerly known as Tivoli). Before that he owned the strategy and product development mission for IBM’s business analytics portfolio. He also had P&L responsibility for the Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics segment. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Advani was the Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of eCommerce for Lenovo. Before joining Lenovo, Mr. Advani worked at IBM for 13 years where he held several global executive positions – VP and Business Line Executive, High End Intel Servers Vice President, Linux Strategy Director, High Performance Computing Software Development Lab Mr. Advani has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business. He has an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Wright State University. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University. He serves on advisory boards at Wharton and Yale universities.