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Steve Mills is a senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group. In this capacity he is responsible for directing the development, marketing, sales and support of IBM's software portfolio. Mr. Mills is a member of IBM’s Operating Team, Performance Team, Values & Integration Team and the Asian Task Force.
IBM's software business contributes $20 billion of IBM's revenue and 40 percent of its profits. IBM's industry leading middleware products provide critical business integration infrastructure that powers more than 100,000 enterprises around the world.
Mr. Mills is leading the next phase of IBM's software strategy. During his tenure, the software business has grown to more than 45,000 employees including 25,000 software developers and 15,000 sales and technical support personnel in over 150 countries. IBM has added 44 acquired companies to its software business since the year 2000, creating the industry's largest business software portfolio.
A graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, Mr. Mills joined IBM in 1974 as a sales trainee in New York City and was a marketing representative until 1980. In 1981, he joined the business planning staff of the Data Processing Division and became manager of that function a year later. In 1984, he was named administrative assistant to the IBM vice president and assistant group executive of Plans and Controls in the Information Systems Group.
He became director of planning in the Information Systems and Communications Group in 1985. In 1986, he was one of the executives responsible for starting IBM’s Publishing Systems Business Unit. He became director of Financial Planning at Corporate Headquarters in 1988.
Mr. Mills joined the Programming Systems line of business in 1989 as Programming Systems director of operations. He was named assistant general manager, Finance and Planning, for that organization in December 1990, and in December 1992 became general manager of the division’s Santa Teresa Laboratory. In 1993 he became general manager of IBM’s Software Solutions Division.
Since its inception in 1995, Mr. Mills has played a leading role in the growth of IBM Software Group. At that time, he was general manager of IBM Software Group Strategy and Solutions, responsible for IBM’s strategy for middleware and software solutions, as well as managing business units for Business Intelligence Solutions, Pervasive Computing, e-Commerce Solutions and Solution Technologies. He was named to his present position in 2000. | 