Mike Rhodin is senior vice president for Watson, one the most significant innovations in IBM's 100-year history. Watson is charged with accelerating a new class of software, services, and apps that think and learn and that will fuel a diverse cloud-based ecosystem of enterprises, tech companies, and entrepreneurs. Before heading up Watson, he led the Software Solutions Group, delivering industry-specific solutions in high-growth categories such as Smarter Commerce, Smarter Cities, Social Business and business analytics.