William M. Genovese

CTO, Senior Executive IT Architect, Client Technical Leader- IBM and Open Group Distinguished Certified IT Architect and IBM Certified Technology Consultant. Senior Executive, Thought Leader proven professional providing solutions to the Financial Services industry on a global scale, with 22 years+ of experience consulting, designing, and delivering financial, analytical, and systems mgmt applications, core systems, and underlying infrastructure. Technical expertise has focused on defining and raising architectural maturity for Enterprise Architecture by aligning business and technical strategy, while focusing on critical architecture definition and delivery for Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC), financial systems, Information & Analytics, systems management, systems engineering and datacenter architecture. Core functional focus includes leadership at the cross-enterprise portfolio and LOB level, business, financial, technology, and operational analytics, financial systems architecture and platform assessments and selection.

Specialties: Architecture:
Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Technical, Application and Systems Eng., Information, and Solution Delivery

High Availability, Stabilization, Optimization for Financial Systems

Leadership Competencies: IBM Thought Leader Level

IBM Special Chair and Board Assignments:
IT Architect WW Profession Senior Board Member
ITS Architecture and Delivery Advisory Council, CEEMEA and Alps (AAC)
IBM APAC & ASEAN Architectural Design Authority
IBM Academy of Technology - Systems Engineering Conference Contributor, Presenter and Committee Member
IBM Cloud Enabled Data Center/Cloud Reference Architecture Team & Working Group
• HW Platform Recommendations
• Softlayer and OpenStack Integration and Positioning
IBM GTS Cloud Advisory Consulting
IBM GTS Cloud Advisory Services Thought & Solution Leadership
IBM Cloud CoE
IBM Cloud Solution Governance Board
IBM SDE (Software Defined Environments) Architect Advisory Board