Stephen leonard ibm biography of william

May 10, 2021Timothy Prickett Morgan

Whether or not you were aware of it, the Cognitive Systems division of IBM – what we still colloquially call Power Systems here at IT Jungle and what everyone else still calls it for the most part – has had a new general manager for quite some time and we had not yet had a chance to talk to the new chief.

But recently we did hop on the Zoom with Stephen Leonard to get some insight about the Power Systems business and how it fits into the new and evolving IBM and the rapidly changing IT sector.

Leonard dates from an earlier era, like many of us, and in fact, he and I both started in the IBM midrange in 1989.

Leonard had various sales roles in the 1990s and 2000s, and was vice president of worldwide sales for Power Systems from January 2006 through October 2008 and was vice president of sales for all of Big Blue’s North American operations for a stint in the Great Recession before being ap