Ric Lewis
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Senior Vice President, IBM
Ric Lewis is Senior Vice President, IBM. He is the former SVP of Infrastructure, where he led IBM Z systems, IBM Power servers, IBM Storage and its Software Defined offerings, IBM Cloud, and global infrastructure support by IBM Technology Lifecycle Services (TLS), as well as the company-wide mission for supply chain.
Ric joined IBM in 2021 and early in his tenure aligned the Systems, TLS, and Cloud brands under the IBM Infrastructure banner. He and his leadership team built an organizational culture of growth and transformation through radical collaboration, appropriate risk tolerance, increased empowerment, and a growth mindset. The organization then reimagined how it defines, designs, delivers, incubates, and supports products. With a modernized product portfolio, accelerated innovation, revamped operating model, and improved speed and efficiency, Infrastructure has become a catalyst for IBM – boosting profitability and generating sustainable top-line growth.
Ric has spent most of his career bringing an entrepreneurial mindset to large corporate teams. Prior to IBM, he spent 32 years at Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, achieving several industry milestones. His Software Defined and Cloud groups enabled the as-a-service delivery of HPE’s portfolio and created the industry-wide composable infrastructure product category. The team’s novel HW/SW design known as HPE Synergy became the fastest new product/business in HP/HPE’s history to reach a billion dollars of revenue.
Ric holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Utah State University, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a master’s degree in business administration from Santa Clara University.