WASHINGTON, DC - Anne Altman of IBM recently joined the Atlas Research corporate advisory board. Ms. Altman is General Manager of IBM U.S Federal Government and Industries. In this role, she is responsible for the strategy, direction, development of solutions, and sales for driving IBM's multi-billion business with federal government clients in the United States.
Known as a transformational leader, she has often been tapped to address complex business challenges within IBM and on behalf of clients. Most notably, she helped establish IBM's footprint as a major force in the U.S. federal market. She has delivered congressional testimony on behalf of IBM on topics ranging from national security, technology in the military and intelligence communities, "smarter" government, intelligent transportation, cloud computing, business analytics software, the role of innovation to drive economic growth, and government R&D.
On the board, Ms. Altman joins Robert Carr, senior vice president and corporate medical director of GlaxoSmithKline, Nicholas Donofrio, former IBM executive vice president for technology and innovation; Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, board chairman and George Washington University president emeritus; and John F. 'Skip' Williams, Jr., president of the State University of New York Downstate Health Medical Center.