Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Board Member and Secretary, The Green Grid
Tom Brey is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Systems and Technology Group. Tom has 29 years of experience within IBM in the architecture and development of IT equipment. Joining IBM in 1979, Tom worked in mainframe hardware development and systems management. Currently, Tom is working on hardware and software systems architectures, strategies and services which allow data centers to operate at high productivity levels while consuming a minimum amount of energy. This is part of Project Big Green, IBM's commitment of $1 billion per year to deliver technologies that help customers increase the level of energy efficiency in their data centers. Since it launched the project in May 2007, IBM has engaged with more than 2,000 clients to deliver a variety of hardware, software and services technologies that help businesses reduce data center energy consumption and cut energy costs by more than 40 percent by certain measures. As a key evaluator and decision-maker in energy management within the data center, Tom takes responsibility for keeping IBM at the forefront of emerging technologies and standards bodies in this area.