Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications
IBM Corporation

Jon Iwata leads IBM's marketing, communications and citizenship organization. This global team manages an integrated system that encompasses market insights, demand generation for IBM products and services, communications and corporate affairs, workforce enablement, and stewardship of the IBM brand, recognized as one of the most valuable in the world.

Jon is a member of the IBM Operating Team, responsible for day-to-day marketplace execution, and the IBM Strategy Team, which focuses on long-term issues and opportunities. He is vice chairman of the IBM International Foundation. Jon reports to IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano.

Jon joined the communications function of IBM in 1984 at the company's Almaden Research Center in Silicon Valley. In 1989, he joined IBM corporate headquarters in Armonk, New York, and held a variety of communications positions. He was appointed vice president of corporate communications in 1995 and became senior vice president, communications, on January 1, 2002. He assumed his current role on July 1, 2008.

From 2006-2007, he served as chairman of The Seminar, a professional group consisting of chief communications officers of major corporations and institutions. He is a trustee of the Arthur W. Page Society.

Jon is the co-inventor of a U.S. patent for advanced semiconductor lithography technology.

He holds a B.A. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, San Jose State University.