Adam Jollans

is currently leading the worldwide Open Source marketing strategy for IBM Software Group.This role covers a wide spectrum of activities, from under-standing the market and customer requirements for Open Source software, to working with technical strategy to define the Open Source software strategy, to briefing analysts and press on IBM’s Open Source strategy and offerings. He is now based in Hursley, England, following a two-year assignment to Somers, NY where he led the worldwide Linux marketing strategy for IBM Software Group.

He joined IBM in 1984, and during his time at IBM he has worked with a leading UK Bank on designing and implementing their distributed branch information system. and spent two years on assignment to IBM development in Florida working on advanced operating systems. He graduated from the University of Cambridge, England in 1980 with a degree in Computer Science, and is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the British Computer Society.