Author, speaker and former IBM Vice President of Internet Technology.
Dr. John R. Patrick is an author and speaker who spent more than three decades at IBM, where he served as Vice President of Internet Technology. Earlier, as Vice President of Marketing for IBM’s Personal Systems Division, he led the launch of the ThinkPad brand. Business 2.0 named him “one of The 25 Most Intriguing Minds of the New Economy.”
He is the author of the “It’s All About Attitude” book series, most recently Reflection Attitude: Past, Current, and Future, and he writes a new blog post nearly every week.
John was a co-founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994, and is a founding member and past chairman of the Global Internet Project. He is a member of the Internet Society and the American College of Healthcare Executives, a senior member of the ACM, and an IEEE Fellow.
He advises businesses, serves on the Nuvance Health Digital Patient Experience Executive Committee, and sits on the board of the Digital Democracy Project.
John holds degrees in electrical engineering, management, law, and health administration. He lives in Danbury, Connecticut, and Palm Coast, Florida, with his wife, Joanne.