Speaker

Sean Flanagan

Vice President, Worldwide IBM Power and IBM Cloud Technical Sales Leader

IBM

Sean is the VP for Technical Sales for IBM’s Power and Cloud business worldwide, based in the UK, He rejoined the infrastructure business after a 4 year term leading and setting up IBM Client Engineering in Europe, Middle East & Africa. This relatively new group within IBM is focused on co-creating with clients on innovation, experimenting and proving IBM Technology solutions using all of IBM’s portfolio including watsonx and our generative AI portfolio.

Prior to his Client Engineering role, Sean was VP for the Client Technical Team in the IBM Systems business in Europe. He was responsible for all the IBM Systems pre & post Sales technical resources across Europe supporting $2-3bn revenue annually. He was accountable for the IBM Systems solutions and ensuring the Business Partners and the IBM teams, have the appropriate skills and capabilities to serve IBMs clients.

Sean joined IBM after working for Laura Ashley and Bradford & Bingley Building Society as an IBM client. Sean has worked in various Technical Leadership roles across the IBM business. He has led teams in UK & Ireland, Europe and Global. Sean is a strong supporter of Women in Technology and developing talent across IBM. He served for 7 years on the UK & Ireland IBM Technical Leadership Team. Outside of IBM, Sean is an active Yorkshire Ambulance Service Community First Responder in his spare time.