Customer Experience Advisory Council Member Profile
Stephanie SchmaderOffering Management Leader, Industry & Compliance, IBM Cloud Platform
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Areas of Expertise
Customer Experience Strategy, Your Customers, Their Journey, Customer-Focused Innovation, Customer First Culture
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As the Offering Management Leader for Industry and Compliance at IBM, Stephanie Schmader is responsible for prioritizing and driving the compliance strategy across IBM's public cloud portfolio with an emphasis on addressing the needs of clients in highly regulated industries around the world. Her 35-year career in technology has spanned various aspects of sales and marketing, client program development and execution, business development and operations and offering management.
Stephanie is also a Faculty Academy Instructor for IBM's Leadership Development program, a Point Park University Alumni Board member and a mentor for the Strong Women, Strong Girls organization. Ravi Ramanathan is a Vice President and General Manager in the Data Power and Control division of Legrand North and Central America. In this role Ravi is responsible for leading Starline, a global leader in power distribution and monitoring systems. Ravi has a track record of leadership in complex global organizations. Prior to his current role Ravi was the Vice President and General Manager of the Wiremold and Cablofil businesses at Legrand. Before joining Legrand in 2014 he was a General Manager at Honeywell Safety Products leading the Fall Protection business in the Americas. At Honeywell Ravi was also the Americas CMO for Honeywell Safety Products which included market leading brands such as Miller Fall Protection, Howard Leight, Uvex and North. Previously in his career Ravi worked for Avaya Inc., a multi-national provider of business communications solutions and for Fedex Corporation successfully leading multiple Marketing functions including Strategic Pricing, Demand Generation and Global Marketing Operations. Ravi holds a MBA from the University of Georgia and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology, India. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children aged 15 and 9. Ravi is an avid reader and also enjoys travelling and playing tennis in his spare time.
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