Kristof Kloeckner

Kristof serves on the OpenLegacy Advisory Board. He retired from IBM as Chief Technology Officer of IBM Global Technology Services, where he built an AI-driven platform for next generation infrastructure services.

During his 33-year career with IBM, Kristof was a senior business and technology leader in Germany, the UK and the US. He has been at the forefront of technology innovation and has successfully transformed global teams and businesses.

As General Manager, Rational Software, he transformed IBM’s development tools portfolio to DevOps and Continuous Engineering for IoT. As CTO of IBM’s first Cloud Computing initiative he created the Beta for IBM’s first public cloud. As CTO of IBM Software Group, he introduced lean and agile development at scale. As development leader for Tivoli, he evolved the portfolio towards service management. As CTO for WebSphere he developed the technical strategy for service-oriented architectures within IBM’s application integration middleware platform. As Director of the Hursley Lab in the UK, he grew IBM’s message-oriented middleware to a full integration portfolio including IBM’s first Enterprise Service Bus. As Director of the German Software Lab, he developed IBM’s first workflow management system.

He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Goethe University Frankfurt and an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Southampton. He is also an Honorary Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart.