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Michael V. Littlejohn
Vice President
Smarter Cities Strategy and Business Development
IBM Global Business Services

Mr. Littlejohn has significant senior leadership experience in professional services, information technology services, and training and human capital services sectors. In his current role, he leads strategy and business development for growth offerings as well as focuses on smarter cities—making cities more resilient, effective, and sustainable.

Mr. Littlejohn’s team develops and delivers a range of solutions designed to make cities smarter, including driving cost take-out and optimizing revenues, increasing citizen safety, optimizing assets and resources, and improving citizen health and welfare. These solutions affect transportation, buildings, water, energy, healthcare, education, public safety and social services within government.

Since joining IBM in 1997, he has held a variety of positions, including practice leader for human capital consulting, general manager (Americas) of IBM learning, and vice president of internal transformation consulting. Previously, Mr. Littlejohn was a managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where he specialized in organizational transformation and change management.

In support of IBM’s corporate commitment to social responsibility, Mr. Littlejohn also oversees an effort designed to better enable students and faculty of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in emerging information technology and business concepts. These efforts have resulted in the creation of new technology-enabled instructional models, while defining a new model for public/private synergy. Results have included improved hiring yields, strengthened relationships with the institutions, and increased IBM brand awareness.