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Rod Adkins leads all of IBM’s global server and storage systems hardware and software development as well as semiconductor manufacturing operations. He also leads the semiconductor process and technology development for microprocessors and application specific integrated circuits used by IBM, its OEM customers and clients.
Mr. Adkins has held a number of product development, business operations and general management positions since joining IBM in 1981. He has experience in Printers, Personal Computers, Servers, Storage and Software. Mr. Adkins has served as General Manager for desktop systems in Personal Systems Group; for UNIX systems in Server Group; and for Pervasive Computing in Software Group.
Mr. Adkins is a member of IBM's Performance and Technology Teams and the Board of Governors for the IBM Academy of Technology. He also serves as co-chairman of IBM's Multicultural People in Technology and the National Black Family Technology Awareness initiatives. Mr. Adkins is a member of the Executive Leadership Council and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and serves on the boards of Pitney Bowes, Inc., and PeopleClick, Inc. He also serves on the President Advisory Board for Georgia Tech, and is a trustee for the Georgia Tech Research Corporation.
Mr. Adkins was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
Mr. Adkins earned a B.A. degree with emphasis in Physics from Rollins College as well as B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. | 