Jason Weisser, PHD

With over 30 years experience in the IT industry, Jason brings a broad and diverse level of expertise to his role in IBM. Beginning six years ago, Dr. Weisser began to develop what would evolve as the IBM SOA strategy and product portfolio. He is currently the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at IBM, for Advanced Technology, responsible for the Service Oriented Architecture Strategy, Design, Development and Operational management. With a global team in excess of 2000 people, he manages a far reaching organization providing ground breaking innovation on services technology through deep customer projects, now numbering over 1800. His team has pioneered the design and development of numerous IBM software products for SOA, as well as creating much of the strategy and planning for the IBM GBS SOA Solution efforts now deeply underway across more than 18 key industries.

The unique aspects of Dr. Weisser's efforts cut across the business and technology communities with customers, ever mindful of the dynamic effects that SOA offers to both the business and technical stakeholders. As such, he created an organization that begins the process with customer, and then drives technical and solution innovations back from the field, either through his own development teams in China, Egypt, UK and US, or through the IBM Software organization. This has resulted in over 1400 core SOA SW elements, and more than 4.2 billion USD in incremental revenue for IBM over the last four years. It has also significantly contributed to singling out IBM as the World leader in Service Oriented Architecture.

Dr. Weisser came to IBM from Microsoft, where he was a key design leader for the MS .NET inniative. Prior to that he served as CTO/CIO Essential Markets, which was subsequently sold to Deutsch Bank, and CTO, Founder, Compass Information Services, sold to Aetna Insurance. Dr. Weisser, is widely considered one the the foremost global experts on SOA, and the broader Enterprise computing and Data management systems.