Carol Kim, executive director, global chief data office, IBM

Kim is an executive director at IBM, a world leader in information technology headquartered in Armonk, New York, with more than 260,000 employees operating in over 170 countries. The global chief data office’s mission is to deliver a trusted enterprise-wide data and AI backbone for transforming IBM into an AI enterprise. Kim leads a team of subject matter and domain experts to deliver new users to the enterprise data and AI platform, determines capabilities that need to be developed, and transforms data into business value across all IBM processes and business units. She also leads third party marketplace and ingestion to provide centralized acquisition, governance, management and oversight of external data assets across the enterprise. In addition, she manages the global chief data office finances, business operations and business controls.  

Kim brings more than 19 years of experience in IBM leadership roles that span many different finance and operations disciplines (chief data office, finance and planning, pricing, treasury), geographies (USA, Asia Pacific) and business models (services, hardware, software). A highly-experienced collaborator, she has led dozens of global, multi-functional teams to successful deliver key business objectives – data discovery and value creation, strategic business model development, financial solutions for strategic outsourcing deals, pricing process transformation, delegation and tools.  

Kim is an executive sponsor of the IBM Asian business resource group, a member of the IBM corporate service corp, and an active volunteer at Girls and Boys GoTech Know camps. she is a US certified public accountant, a Harvard Business School alumna and is based in Westchester, New York.