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Sharon Nunes is currently the vice president of technology for IBM.
Prior to her current position, Sharon was vice president of emerging business at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center where she was responsible for identifying and growing new technologies into future businesses for IBM. Prior to this, she was director of life sciences solutions in IBM, bringing new technology solutions to the pharmaceutical and biotech markets. She had previously been the director of technology evaluation, responsible for corporate-wide emerging technologies activities. She has held many management positions in IBM, ranging from research to development and manufacturing, as well as positions in hardware development, software development and networking. Sharon was responsible for the launch of IBM’s Computational Biology Center in 1997, and was a key driver in highlighting IBM's business opportunities in the life sciences market.
Sharon received her PhD in materials science in 1983 from the University of Connecticut. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; a member of the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Sciences Institute at Ohio State University; a member of the Board of Governors of the Advanced Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and a board member for the Center for Security Technologies at Washington University in St. Louis. She was a National Academy of Engineering “Frontiers of Engineering” fellow in 2000 and is currently on the National Academy of Engineering “Engineer of 2020” advisory board.
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