Worldwide Enterprise Machines Company (IBM) World Know-how, Web, Media & Telecommunications Convention 2025 November 19, 2025 10:00 AM EST
Firm Individuals
Ric Lewis – Senior Vice President of Infrastructure
Convention Name Individuals
Matthew Swanson – RBC Capital Markets, Analysis Division
Presentation
Matthew Swanson
RBC Capital Markets, Analysis Division
Again day 2 of the RBC TIMT Convention, we’re tremendous excited to be joined by IBM, Ric Lewis, SVP of IBM Infrastructure. Thanks for being right here.
Ric Lewis
Senior Vice President of Infrastructure
Thanks for having me.
Query-and-Reply Session
Matthew Swanson
RBC Capital Markets, Analysis Division
I suppose we’ll begin initially. Might you share a bit extra about your profession after which the journey main as much as your present position because the SVP of IBM’s Infrastructure enterprise?
Ric Lewis
Senior Vice President of Infrastructure
Positive. Pleased to try this. So I have been within the business, the IT business now for occurring 40 years, not fairly. I spent 32 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, labored there, did a number of — I used to be at all times on — I grew up as a chip designer after which began to personal companies, small ones, larger, larger then large chunks of the enterprise. However I used to be at all times spending my time on the entrepreneurial innovation facet of issues. So we did a number of work with as-a-service supply. We did a number of work with various kinds of hyperconverged and composable infrastructure. It was a terrific trip. I had a good time.
Then I retired at 55 on the early retirement, planning to totally retire and keep retired, after which I failed at that and ended up in a dialog with Arvind at IBM concerning the transformation he wished to do with the corporate. And I believed I do not need to miss that. And I have been doing
