BEYA-WOC HALL OF FAME
Lauren States Vice President, CTO IBM Corporation 2013 BEYA Pioneer
Lauren States joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1978. During her tenure in IBM’s software group she built an organization of 5,000 technical architects and specialists along with management systems and supporting business processes. She also identified the corporate need to develop a Black executive talent review in a bid to provide mentors and sponsors to employees that may otherwise be overlooked among 100,000 individuals in the United States. Since then, over 30 candidates have been promoted to executive rank. More recently as a senior executive on IBM’s integration and values team she was responsible for transforming processes for skills development, knowledge management and career progression for IBM’s professional sales force. In her current role, she is responsible for technology strategy for IBM’s growth initiatives including cloud computing, Smarter Planet, business analytics and growth markets.
States co-chairs the IBM North America Black Constituency Council, chairs the Board of Visitors for Northeastern University College of Business, serves on the board of directors for MoJo (
momsandjobs.com) and is a member of the Executive Leadership Council.
She was spokesperson for the
Black Family Technology Awareness Week (BFTAW) campaign and launched BFTAW in Biloxi in Mississippi at a newly renovated middle school after hurricane Katrina.
www.blackengineer.com
Albert Sweets President, Innovate STEM Solutions, LLC BEYA Special Recognition Honoree
Albert Sweets is the CEO of Innovative STEM Solutions LLC (iSTEMS), an organization that seeks to build sustainable relationships between academia, government and private corporations. One of the primary goals of iSTEMS is to bring opportunities to urban children and adults, as well as excite them about the prospect of working in science, technology engineering and math (STEM). Sweets has sponsored the Ruth Golberg Design Camp, a summer communication and technology program for middle and high school students held at Arizona State University and his Alma mater, Morgan State University. He also supports several
extracurricular programs in the Baltimore area, and has been a mentor for K-12 school systems in Maryland, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. In 1984, Sweets enlisted in the U.S. Navy, eventually switching over to the Naval Reserves, where he remained until 2005. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Morgan State University in 1994. In 1999 he achieved his master’s in project management from George Washington University.
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