Mohamad Ali, IBM

Mohamad Ali is Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Operating Officer for IBM Consulting. In this role, he is responsible for the global operational performance of IBM Consulting, including Global Delivery, Cybersecurity services, asset development and scaling AI-enabled solutions that make greater use of IBM technology to improve delivery profitability and innovation.

Mohamad was most recently CEO of IDG, a leading market intelligence and demand generation company serving the technology ecosystem. Before this, Mohamad was CEO of Carbonite, a publicly traded data-protection and cybersecurity company where he grew revenues four-fold in four years.

Mohamad also previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer at Hewlett Packard where he played a pivotal role in the company's turnaround by directly managing over ten billion dollars of organic cost reductions and leading the process to split HP into two companies.