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Alfred W. Zollar

Alfred W. Zollar

Former Executive Advisor, Siris Capital Group LLC
Alfred W Zollar

Director since 2021

  • Committee
    • Directors and Corporate Governance
  • Key Contributions
    • Global business and leadership experience as an executive partner and former executive advisor at Siris Capital Group
    • Deep technology experience with more than 40 years in systems and software at IBM and as a director of Red Hat
    • Extensive finance, strategy and corporate governance experience as a director of Nasdaq and Bank of New York Mellon, and as a former director of Public Service Enterprise Group

Mr. Zollar, 70, served as a former executive advisor at Siris Capital Group, a private equity group specializing in technology and telecom investments, since March 2021; previously, Mr. Zollar was an executive partner from 2014 through March 2021. While at Siris Capital Group, Mr. Zollar has worked closely with cloud-based technology providers, leading providers of enterprise security solutions and other technology and software-as-a-service companies. He served as a director of Red Hat from 2018 until 2019 and of Public Service Enterprise Group from 2012 until 2023. He is currently a director of Nasdaq Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. He is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council, a lifetime member of the National Society of Black Engineers and Harvard Fellow from the 2011 cohort of the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Mr. Zollar retired from IBM in 2011 following a 34-year career during which he held a variety of senior management positions in IBM’s systems and software groups.

Top Strategic Skills

Top Strategic Skills

Innovation and Emerging Technologies
Cybersecurity
Financial Expertise/Literacy
Human Capital Management
Strategy/Business Development

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