Robert Picciano
Biography:
Bob Picciano is Vice President of Database Servers for IBM's Information Management Division. In this unique and broad capacity, Mr. Picciano is the responsible business line executive for IBM's highly successful database portfolio of software products; including the DB2 Family, Informix IDS, Cloudscape, RedBrick, and Informix XPS. Mr. Picciano oversees the product line and technology landscape to ensure that IBM maintains its position of leadership; as well as oversees the associated marketing, sales, services and technical support aspects aligned with database software. Mr. Picciano reports directly to Janet Perna, IBM's Information Management General Manager and Senior Executive. He is also a member of IBM's Senior Leadership Team, providing guidance to the corporation and across IBM.As IBM's Vice President of Database Technology, Mr. Picciano led the worldwide development and maintenance of IBM's award winning DB2 UDB on all Linux, Windows and Unix platforms. DB2 UDB is the foundation of e-business applications and is used by over 3,000,000 customers worldwide to leverage information. Mr. Picciano was the Senior Information Management Executive for IBM Canada and performed his worldwide DB2 duties while on international assignment leading the team from IBM's Toronto Software Development Laboratory in Markham Canada.Mr. Picciano earned his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 1987. He first entered IBM as a programmer in Bethesda, Maryland, developing advanced workstation based SGML editor products.
