Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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Mohamad leads IBM Consulting, IBM’s global professional consulting services unit, an organization in 150 countries with deep industry expertise and market-leading capabilities in business transformation and technology implementation. In this role, he leads an organization solving complex problems for clients using technology-based assets and AI
from IBM, as well as our expanding ecosystem of strategic partners. Mohamad was most recently CEO of IDG, a leading market intelligence and demand generation company serving the technology ecosystem. Before this, Mohamad was CEO of Carbonite, a publicly traded data-protection and cybersecurity company where he grew revenues four-fold in four years. Mohamad also previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer at Hewlett Packard, where he played a pivotal role in the company's turnaround by directly managing over ten billion dollars of organic cost reductions and leading the process of splitting HP into two companies. Mohamad Ali is the CEO of International Data Group. Mohamad Ali has served as a director since August 2015 and brings extensive experience with capital allocation in technology companies, as well as strategic software development, including cloud infrastructure and data analytics. He has served as the president, chief executive officer and director of Carbonite, Inc. from 2014 to present. Ali has successfully led Carbonite’s continued growth, serving the ever-evolving technology needs of small and midsize businesses and consumers. Boston-based Carbonite provides cloud and hybrid backup and recovery solutions for homes and businesses. Previously, Ali served as chief strategy officer at Hewlett-Packard, a manufacturer of computers and enterprise products, from 2012 to 2014 and president of Avaya Global Services, an enterprise communications company. He also served in senior leadership roles at IBM Corporation, a multinational technology and consulting company, where he acquired numerous companies to build IBM’s analytics and big data business. In addition to serving on the board of directors of Carbonite, Ali is also a director of Oxfam America and Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and previously served on the Board of Directors of City National Corporation and City National Bank. He was named to Boston Business Journal’s 2008 “40 Under 40” list, and recognized by Massachusetts High Tech magazine as a 2011 All-Star. Ali holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.
