Bob Sutor - IBM Software

Vice President, Open Source & Linux, IBM Software

About Bob Sutor
Dr. Bob Sutor is the Vice President of Open Source and Linux for the IBM Corporation. In this role he has the responsibility for driving the IBM strategy, sales enablement, and technical pre-sales for software running on Linux and other Open Source environments. He works with customers, partners, government leaders, analysts and the press to understand the value of adopting business-critical Open Source and Linux. He is also responsible for driving and executing the cross-company business and policy strategy for open standards as they relate to software, hardware, services, vertical industries, and emerging markets. A 26 year veteran of IBM, Sutor worked for 15 years in IBM Research, specializing in symbolic mathematical computation and Internet publishing. He co-authored the books Axiom: The Scientific Computation System and The LaTeX Web Companion. ; and was a co-author of the W3C Recommendation Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)as well as the W3C Recommendation Document Object Model Level 1. In 1999 Dr. Sutor moved to the IBM Software Group and focused on jump starting industry use of XML. This led to positions on the Board of Directors of the OASIS standards group and the vice chairmanship of the ebXML effort, a joint OASIS/United Nations endeavor. Sutor then led IBM’s industry standards and Web services strategy efforts. Dr. Sutor is a widely read blogger and is a frequent speaker around the world on open standards, Open Source, virtual worlds, web services, and Service Oriented Architecture. In 2006 he was named as one of Computer Business Review’s “Open Source VIPs”. Dr. Sutor has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in Mathematics.