 
VP Grid Computing Sales and Business Development, .
Al Bunshaft serves as IBM's vice president of Grid computing sales and business development, where he is responsible for leveraging his extensive technical knowledge and background in product development to assist customers worldwide in deploying Grid solutions.
Additionally, he is responsible for identifying, cultivating and partnering with key technology companies that offer first-of-a-kind software and solutions that will help nurture, expand and commercialize Grid computing.
Prior to joining IBM's Grid computing organization in July 2002, Bunshaft lived in Tokyo where he was the IBM vice president responsible for the company's eServer pSeries business throughout Asia Pacific. He also initiated and oversaw IBM's Grid computing efforts in that region.
Through his more than 20 years of experience in technology, research and development, sales, and product development, Bunshaft is helping IBM's customers deploy enterprise-wide Grids. He joined IBM in 1984 at the company's Kingston, NY development labs as a programmer, technical lead and eventually manager of development for 3D graphic subsystems. His graphics subsystem work and that of the teams he led is still represented in Unix and in the Windows operating system.
During his career at IBM, he has represented the company on multiple International Standards Organization committees, and has held a variety of management and executive positions in systems development, graphics development, business line management, and ISV support. He has served as IBM's partnership executive to a number of major automotive manufacturers and aerospace companies. In these positions, he fostered the transition from physical to digital design process and was instrumental in the development of the first automobile designed through an all-digital process.
Prior to joining IBM, he was a member of the research staff at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Interactive Computer Graphics, a National Science Foundation-funded University research center.
Bunshaft received his Masters of Science in Computer Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany.
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