Dr. Scott Crowder is currently Vice President, IBM Quantum Adoption & Business Development, where he initiated the commercial quantum computing program that has grown to have the largest ecosystem of developers and institutions driving the adoption and advancement of quantum computing. He has also testified to US House of Representatives committees on multiple occasions on quantum computing technology and policy implications. Prior to his current role, Scott served as the Chief Technical Officer for IBM Systems and as the Vice President of Technical Strategy in IBM Corporate Strategy. Scott helped define the cross- IBM technical strategy for cloud infrastructure, Big Data and Analytics, composable services, and software-defined infrastructure.
Earlier in his career, Scott was the lead engineer on the industry's first logic-based embedded DRAM technology before serving in a variety of executive management roles within global cross-cultural alliances for semiconductor process development. Scott received A.B./Sc.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and International Relations from Brown University and a M.A. in Economics and M.Sc./Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
