Carol Kim

Executive Director Global Chief Data Office

IBM

Carol Kim is an Executive Director at IBM, a world leader in information technology headquartered in Armonk, New York, with more than 250,000 employees operating in over 170 countries. The Global Chief Data Office’s mission is to deliver a trusted enterprise-wide data and AI backbone for transforming IBM into an AI enterprise. Carol leads a team of subject matter and domain experts to deliver new users to the Enterprise Data & AI Platform, determines capabilities that need to be developed, and transforms data into business value across all IBM processes and business units. She also leads 3rd Party Marketplace and ingestion to provide centralized acquisition, governance, management and oversight of external data assets across the enterprise. In addition, Carol manages the Global Chief Data Office finances, business operations and business controls. Carol brings more than 17 years of experience in IBM leadership roles that span many different Finance & Operations disciplines (Chief Data Office, Finance & Planning, Pricing, Treasury), geographies (USA, Asia Pacific) and business models (Services, Hardware, Software). A highlyexperienced collaborator, she has led many global, multi-functional teams to successful delivery of key business objectives – data discovery & value creation, strategic business model development, financial solutions for strategic outsourcing deals, pricing process transformation, delegation and tools. Carol Kim is a board member of the IBM Asian Business Resource Group, a member of the IBM Corporate Service Corp, and an active volunteer at Girls and Boys GoTech Know camps. Carol is a US Certified Public Accountant, a Harvard Business School alumna and is based in Westchester, New York.