Kiyoshi Urabe

Kiyoshi Urabe is the Business Line Executive for Storage Networking and DRI Tape Solutions. He has more than 19 years with IBM and has managed global teams in Manufacturing Engineering and Procurement Engineering that supported Storage, POWER, and Mainframe offerings. He has also had assignments in Strategy, Transformation and Innovation within the Systems Supply Chain organization and was recently the Executive Assistant to the General Manager of Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure. He received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California - Berkeley and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical and Materials Science Engineering from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. He resides in New York.