Hillery Hunter is the CTO and General Manager of Innovation for IBM Infrastructure. In this role, she is focused on driving innovation and growth across IBM's Infrastructure portfolio which includes IBM zSystems, Power, and Storage, as well as IBM Cloud. In her previous role as General Manager of Industry Clouds and CTO of IBM Cloud, she led business and technical strategy for IBM’s industry-contextualized cloud offerings and was responsible for technical strategy for IBM's public cloud. Prior to this role, she served as Director of Accelerated Cognitive Infrastructure in IBM Research, leading a team doing cross-stack (hardware through software) optimization of AI workloads. Her technical interests have always been interdisciplinary, spanning from silicon technology through system software, and she has served in technical and leadership roles in memory technology, Systems for AI, and other areas. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and was appointed as an IBM Fellow in 2017. Hillery is a BS, MS, and PhD graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.