Rosemary joined IBM Canada in 1976 and held several sales, financial and management positions over the next 20 years, with a primary focus on the Public Sector.

In 1995, as part of IBM’s new worldwide Industry organization, she was appointed General Manager for the Education and Technical Computing marketplace in Canada. In 1997, she moved to Atlanta to become the Worldwide Solution Executive for the Education Industry. In this role, she was responsible for setting IBM’s short-term and long-term segment and solution strategy for the Education Industry and ensuring the solutions IBM brought to market met the current and future needs of the worldwide K-12 and Higher Education marketplace.

In September 1998, Rosemary moved back to Canada and took on responsibility for International Sales and Operations for the Americas. In May 2000, she expanded this role to take on worldwide responsibility for International Sales and Operations. In this position, she is responsible for leading a global team who work with IBM’s worldwide sales organizations and the major multinational customers around the world, helping them successfully rollout projects, generating over $8B in revenue. She is also responsible for ensuring consistent execution of IBM’s Global Coverage Transformation Strategy, our three-tiered worldwide sales coverage model.

Rosemary is on the Board of Governors of York University, the second largest University in Ontario and the third largest in Canada. She also represents IBM on the Global Forum, a working group made up of senior representatives of major global corporations (ABB, ING, Xerox, Nokia, D&B etc.) who are focused on improving Global Customer Management. She is a past Board member of the York Technology Association in Toronto and The Learning Partnership and a past Technology Advisory Committee member of the Western Governor’s University in Colorado.

Rosemary has a B.A. from Ryerson University and a M.B.A. from York University which she completed on a part-time basis in 1986. In 1994 she completed the IBM Harvard Client Executive program.