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JOANNE WRIGHT

COMPANY: IBM INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: 25 + YEARS BASED IN: TAMPA, FLORIDA, US

A 28-year veteran of IBM, Joanne serves as Senior Vice President of Transformation and Operations. Though the chief transformation title isn’ t explicitly in her name, she effectively anchors the role by positioning the tech giant as its own client zero.

Overseeing operations, procurement and real estate, Joanne has deployed hybrid cloud architectures and watsonx generative AI across internal supply chains – generating an estimated US $ 4.5bn in savings and reclaiming 22 million operational hours since 2023. Joanne Wright Senior Vice President of Transformation and Operations IBM

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