Richard is the Senior Vice President and CTO for Kyndryl’s Core Enterprise and zCloud Practice focusing on IBM Z and IBM i technologies and how Kyndryl’s customers can expand their adoption of new technologies on these platforms, including integration with Hyperscalers. Prior to Kyndryl separating from IBM in November 2021 Richard was with IBM for 36 years where he held a number of Executive positions in IBM Global Technology Services and IBM Software Group. Where, among other roles he was the Development Executive responsible for the WebSphere Application Server; CICS; COBOL/PLI/RPG/HLASM compilers and IDE’s. Richard holds an Honours BSc in Computing and Data Processing from Bradford University (UK) and is a Fellow of The Irish Computer Society (FICS) and a Fellow of The British Computer Society (FBCS).
Email: richard.baird@kyndryl.com