Dario Gil, SVP and Director of Research, IBM

IBM’s technology roadmap and technical community are led by Dario Gil, who is also in charge of directing innovation strategies in areas like hybrid clouds, artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, quantum computing, and exploratory science.

Under his direction, IBM became the first business in the world to develop programmable quantum computers and make them accessible to everyone via the cloud.

He is also in charge of IBM Research, which employs over 3,000 researchers and is one of the largest and most influential corporate research labs in the world.