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Lauren States (born 1956) is a former Chief of Technology and then Vice President of Strategy and Transformation for IBM's Software Group Division.


Life

States has held numerous senior executive positions within IBM Software Group, IBM Corporate Strategy, and IBM Sales and Distribution. States holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the 
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...
and a Certificate in Business Excellence from
Columbia University Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and is one of the oldest bus ...
Executive Education. She also completed a fellowship in Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative in 2015. States was named one of Savoy Magazine’s 2017 Power 300: Most Influential Black Corporate Directors. In 2014, she was inducted into the 
Women in Technology International Women in Technology International (WITI) is an organization promoting the achievements of women in technology and extending support, opportunities, and inspiration. It was founded by Carolyn Leighton in 1989 as the International Network of Women in ...
Hall of Fame. States serves as a director fo
Code Nation
and a board trustee for
International House of New York International House New York, also known as I-House, is a private, independent, non-profit residence and program center for postgraduate students, research scholars, trainees, and interns, located at 500 Riverside Drive in Morningside Heights, Ma ...
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American women computer scientists American computer scientists Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni 1956 births Living people IBM people 21st-century American women {{US-engineer-stub