Bob Lord

Bob is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Ecosystems, Watson Advertising and Weather at IBM. He oversees IBM’s work as both an ad tech provider and publisher through The Weather Company, and is focused on the success of IBM’s ecosystem of partners, developers and customers.

He was appointed in 2016 as the company’s first Chief Digital Officer, changing how IBM innovation is delivered and consumed across the globe. He was previously the President of AOL and served as the CEO of Razorfish, a pioneering digital transformation consultancy.

A board member for Williams-Sonoma and Screenvision Media, Bob graduated with an Industrial Engineering degree from Syracuse University before pursuing his MBA from Harvard University.