Gary Burnette

Job Title: VP, Consulting at Kyndryl
Organization: Chair, AISES Board of Directors

Sessions:

• Talent and Skill Development

Gary Burnette, Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Chairman of AISES Board of Directors, retired from IBM in 2021 joining Kyndryl as its first Chief Data Officer and head of Enterprise Architecture. He is responsible for Kyndryl’s data assets, enabling business insight and digitizing key management systems. He had worked in IBM for over thirty years in a broad range of roles including software development, product management, product marketing, IT business/financial operations, IT transformation and data. Most recently, he owned enterprise data governance and acted as a divisional CDO for three parts of the IBM business – Mergers and Acquisitions, Support Transformation and sales. Gary mentors a number of top talent professionals and co-chaired IBM’s Native Council focused on the hiring, development and advancement of American Indian professionals. Gary lives in Raleigh with his wife. They have two grown sons, a couple of dogs and a cat or two most of which arrived while he was away on various business travel.