Date: Monday, September 25, 2023

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Location: Van Leer C240

Speaker: Nicholas Otto

Speakers' Title: General Manager, Strategic Partnerships

Speakers' Affiliation: IBM

Seminar Title: Engineering your Career: Balance of Tech and Business

Abstract:

Graduating from Georgia Tech with my degree in Electrical Engineering, I quickly began my career at an engineering firm focused on designing and building large manufacturing facilities.  I loved it!  I had done similar work through the co-op program at Tech and thought it was the job for me.  It spanned many industries including Electronics, CPG, Oil & Gas, etc.

The work I am doing today is miles apart from where I started – at least on the surface.  I plan to talk through the career journey that I have been on and lessons that I have learned along the way.  Most importantly, I look forward to an open dialogue around career questions.

Biographical Sketch of the Speaker:
General Manager at IBM with over 15 years of cross industry experience helping clients on their transformation journeys. Nick’s passion is grounded in partnering with customers to understand and align corporate strategy imperatives to technology transformations. His experience with IBM Consulting as well as internal IBM Corporate Strategy spans multiple functional areas including product, ecosystem, finance, sales, talent, and operations.

Currently, Nick is the Head of Global Strategic Partnerships.  In this role, he is responsible for leading the largest and most strategic relationships in the IBM Ecosystem including Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, SAP, Adobe, Cisco and Samsung. This responsibility spans across all IBM BUs and includes all ecosystem motions including Sell, Build and Service in IBM's $1B+ partners.

Previously, he was a Partner in IBM Consulting focused on Data & AI and prior to that a leader in IBM’s Corporate Strategy and Chief Analytics Office driving IBM’s internal transformation with a priority focus on IBM sales execution.

Nick is a graduate of Georgia Tech (Electrical Engineering) and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.