Jon C. Iwata

Overview

Jon Iwata is responsible for worldwide communications for IBM. His organization includes media relations, industry analyst relations, executive and internal communications, shareholder communications and IBM's global intranet, which serves the company's 320,000 employees. In addition, his team is responsible for instilling IBM Values into the company's practices and operations, and for coordinating IBM's corporate affairs initiatives. Jon is a member of the IBM Worldwide Management Council, the IBM Strategy Team, and the company's Privacy Executive Council. Jon reports to IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano. He joined the communications function of IBM in 1984 at the company's Almaden Research Center in Silicon Valley, where he was born and raised. In 1989, he came to IBM corporate headquarters in Armonk, New York, and held a variety of media relations and internal communications posts, including providing support for the president of the company. He was named Director of Corporate Public Relations in 1994 and was appointed a vice president the following year. He assumed his current responsibilities as senior vice president, communications, on January 1, 2002. Jon is a co-inventor of a U.S. patent for advanced semiconductor lithography technology. He holds a B.A. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, San Jose State University.