Biography

Steven Sams is an accomplished technology and marketing strategist with nearly 34 years in executive and senior sales and operations roles at IBM. Sams most recently led the worldwide organization that supported IBM services sales through business partners as vice president of Global Channels, Alliances and Midmarket Services, for Global Technology Services.

Prior to this, he started and led the Global Site and Facilities Services organization at IBM, a leader in designing and building highly resilient data centers and other mission critical facilities worldwide. His team’s designs are used in some of the largest data centers in the world. In 2007, Sams and his team launched Project Big Green, a billion dollar effort to make data centers worldwide more energy-efficient, cost-effective and greener overall. Prior to this nearly six year stint, he served in various corporate strategy and product management leadership roles.

Sams is a graduate of the Executive Education program at the Harvard Business School. He also earned a master’s in Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a bachelor’s degree in General Sciences from McMaster University.