VP For IBM Global Services To Speak
Thursday, February 19 at 4 p.m.
Buffalo, NY – Canisius College will welcome Douglas C. Pileri, vice president of IBM Global Services, to campus on Thursday, February 19 at 4 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. The lecture, titled “How to Outwit Your Global Future,” is free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the Richard J. Wehle School of Business and the Canisius Entrepreneurs Organization.
Pileri has more than 25 years of leadership experience building global brands and guiding the strategies and operations of top-tier companies including Kodak, Thomson, and IBM. At IBM, Pileri is responsible for successfully driving Delivery Excellence (DE) across the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) global operations. Delivery excellence focuses on optimizing operations to deliver contracted services in the most efficient manner.
His prior responsibilities at IBM include optimizing a billion dollars in vendored services and managing the company’s CRM operations worldwide, which include 36,000 employees who serve millions of IBM’s client customers.
Pileri serves on the boards of directors of the Rochester Hemophilia Center and the Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis, and was selected by the White House as a nominee to the IRS Oversight Board.
He was awarded a fellowship to the Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester where he earned an MBA. He received a bachelor of science degree in computer engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
For more information, contact the Office of Public Relations at (716) 888-2790.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders - intelligent, caring, faithful individuals able to pursue and promote excellence in their professions, their communities and their service to humanity.
stephanie | Evening/Part-Time MBA