Robert LeBlanc is Senior Vice President, Middleware Software, for IBM Software Group.

He has global responsibility for the strategy and management of IBM’s industry-leading middleware portfolio.

This includes Application and Integration Middleware, Information Management, Rational, Tivoli, and the newly-formed IBM Security Systems Division.

Mr. LeBlanc also chairs IBM’s Technology Team, a senior executive team responsible for setting IBM’s technology agenda.

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