With more than three and a half decades of experience in global roles with IBM, John Teltsch has provided transformational leadership across sales efforts, hardware division oversight, and the expansion of the IBM.com platform. Presently serving as general manager with IBM’s Global Business Partners, John Teltsch oversees a network partner-driven platform that spans mobile and cloud platforms.
In early 2017, IBM launched an OpenPower-driven cognitive computing hardware unit. The aim is to leverage the firm’s Power architecture and research in ways that expand machine learning, unstructured data, and artificial intelligence navigation capacities. As described by the head of the unit, this reflects a changing landscape in which computer systems are valued for the insight they provide rather than for strictly procedural, programmatic, and transactional qualities.
Reflecting this mandate, the cognitive initiative will work across multiple sectors and with a variety of partners, with a focus on utilizing software and cloud capacities to generate insights in near real time. By pairing AI and analytics with cloud and on-premises infrastructure, comprehensive solutions can be provided to organizations of all types and sizes. This will be leveraged and extended across IBM's global partner ecosystem that John Teltsch continues to drive change and transformation across all it's offerings.
