2020 IBM Fellows

Meet IBM's best and brightest

Each year, IBM honors its top technologists as IBM Fellows.

Among the best and brightest of IBM’s global workforce, this year's 12 new IBM Fellows come from Asia, the Americas and Europe. They have worked across multiple business units to assist our clients in their digital transformations and migrations to AI and Cloud. These new IBM Fellows also have energized the company's internal business practices, and have helped to establish and maintain IBM’s reputation as the world’s responsible—and dependable—steward of technology.

Meet our newest IBM Fellows, and read more about what makes them leaders in their fields:

Distinguished Engineer, IBM Cloud By Mark Joyella A few years ago when Ajay Apte’s managers and mentors suggested a move away from a team where he’d had huge success into a new part of the...

Distinguished Engineer, Lead Architect IBM Z Firmware Development By Mark Joyella “I don’t think of myself as the smartest person in the room,” says Andreas Bieswanger, who credits his...

IBM Distinguished Engineer When Catherine “Cait” Crawford joined IBM, her first mentor at IBM Research was a legend: Fran Allen, the first female IBM Fellow and the first woman to win the...

IBM Distinguished Engineer with the Cloud Engagement Hub When Nduwuisi Emuchay joined IBM 22 years ago as part of the DBMX Ltd. acquisition, he relocated from London to Austin, Texas. Since then,...

Marc Fiammante has traveled the world many times over—accumulating more than three million frequent flier miles and filling three passports with visas—to directly understand...

IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Technology Officer of Managed Private Cloud IaaS for Storage By Al McKeon In his first year at Norwalk State Technical College, Jim Olson aspired to start his...

Vice President, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer, Global Technology Services, North America Financial Services Sector By Ronald Gordon In her 23 years with IBM, Emi Olsson has...

IBM AI Ethics Global Leader and Distinguished Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab At the height of a 22-year academic career, Francesca Rossi took a leave of...

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the IBM Global Chief Data Office By Alexander Wolfe As VP and CTO for the IBM Global Chief Data Office, Ranjan Sinha is on the front lines of the...