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Lauren States, CTO Cloud Computing and Growth Initiatives, IBM

Lauren States is responsible for IBM's uber important cloud computing strategy which includes things like its Smarter Planet initiative and business analytics. She's a long time IBMer who joined as a systems engineer right after college in the late 1990s.

She worked just about every job possible at IBM, from executive assistant, to technical sales in the software group. She also launched one of IBM's internal leadership development programs.

Does she look familiar? She stars in one of IBM's Smarter Planet TV commercials.

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