William M. Zeitler

Overview

Bill Zeitler is presently senior vice president and group executive of IBM Systems Group. He was named to his present position in January 2003 when the Server and Storage Groups merged to form the newly created IBM Systems Group. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Zeitler was senior vice president and group executive for IBM's Server Group. Mr. Zeitler joined IBM in 1969 as a programmer in White Plains. His first executive assignment at IBM was as director of Application Business Systems, a precursor to AS/400. In the years following Mr. Zeitler held several executive positions in the marketing and services division before being named vice president, marketing AS/400. In November of 1996 Mr. Zeitler was named general manager, AS/400. During the next three years he was appointed as general manager, Server Brand Management, and general manager of Worldwide Software Sales and Marketing. In February 2000 he became general manager of IBM Enterprise Servers where he remained until he assumed the role of senior vice president, and group executive IBM Server Group in September of 2000. Mr. Zeitler received his BS in mathematics from Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania in 1969.