Khwaja Shaik

KHWAJA SHAIK is the award-winning C-level Global IT Executive with 25+ years of technology, industry, and board leadership with GE, IBM, Bank of America & PwC. Khwaja’s work style embraces ethical values, authenticity, empathy, strong accountability “and” tender-hearted with people.

He was recognized globally for Digital Transformation, Sustainable Innovation, Cloud, AI, and Cybersecurity.As IBM’s CTOand pre-eminent thinker, Khwaja works closely with many of the world’s leading CIOs and boards to provide strategic advice, address key industry issues, redefine business models, maximize ROI, and stay ahead of the digital disruption curve. Using his innovative mindset, he helps firms use emerging technologies, enterprise architecture & open innovation to future-proofbusiness and accelerate business Value.

Embracing the product mindset, platform models, ecosystems, and doing agile right is his mantra to drive growth.Khwaja has a history of leading over $10B digital transformations by scaling Agile practices for cost optimization and revenue-generatingimperatives. It includes digital business optimization and using digital business models to capture profitable growth, customer lifetime value & competitive advantageto Fortune 500 firms.

For Bank of America, he saved $1.1 billion per year by transforming the IT Operating model through a private cloud and accelerated digital business initiatives. Khwaja has 20 years of experience in the highly regulated banking and financial servicesindustry. Selected accomplishments include the world’s largest modernization & simplificationprograms.

In 2016, Khwaja was among the most exceptional IBMersappointed with the rare distinction of IBM Academy of Technology member.In 2020, Khwaja was recognized as IBM’s senior inventorand top 100 technical leaders driving technology ethics and data stewardship, providing the direction of IBM with responsible innovation that matters.

Service to others has been a part of Khwaja’s purpose. Due to his holistic stakeholderengagement in the industry, partner ecosystem, and community, Khwaja received several service awards.

Khwaja is a Fellow of Herndon BoardInstitute, sponsored by NASDAQand AtlantaLife. Khwaja holds an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering. Khwaja lived on three continents, experienced three different cultures, reads too much, doesn’t do enough gardening, married for over 22 years, and has two boys.