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New IBM Lotus General Manager, Bob Picciano, spent some time with Debbie Lynd of LotusUserGroup.org in his first interview to the Lotus community. Listen to this podcast to find out how Bob’s 21 years with IBM has prepared him for the challenge at Lotus. Get insight into Bob’s take of the Lotus brand and what’s in store to continue the sales growth and keep IBM Lotus on top of the collaboration market. Hear about Bob’s passion for the customer, plans for marketing outreach, and how Lotus will continue to offer greater business value than the competition. Plus, find out why "yellow is the new green", and a lot more. Spend a few minutes and listen to this engaging interview packed with insight from the new man at the helm of the IBM Lotus Brand. You’ll be glad that you did.
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As general manager for Lotus software, Bob Picciano has oversight for an extensive portfolio of collaboration tools designed to empower people to be more effective, responsive and innovative within the context of the work they do. It includes email, calendar, instant messaging, electronic forms, web conferencing, portals, team spaces, business dashboards, document management, and social software. He is also a member of IBM's Integration and Values team – a select group of executives who provide guidance across IBM on various business and strategic issues. |
Prior to becoming General Manager, Mr. Picciano was vice president, worldwide sales, Information Management, Software Group. He was responsible for sales and operations for the Information Management portfolio, a multi-billion dollar product set that is sold in over 130 countries. Bob had previously been vice president for Data Servers, responsible for business line performance of IBM's highly successful database portfolio of software products including DB2, Informix IDS, Cloudscape, RedBrick, and XPS. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Picciano led the worldwide development and support of DB2 Linux, Windows and UNIX platforms as vice president of Database Technology while on international assignment at the IBM Toronto Software Development Lab in Markham, Canada.
Over the course of his twenty year career at IBM, Mr. Picciano has held numerous management and executive positions including Technical Assistant to IBM Chairman and CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. and IMS Family Product Manager, where he also managed the Santa Teresa laboratory development technologies team, providing centralized development, test and product packaging services to the lab's development teams.
Mr. Picciano holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University. |
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