Suzanne Livingston

Suzanne is a product development executive focused on improving sustainability, transparency and culture through data and insight. As a Vice President in IBM’s Sustainability Software business unit, Suzanne leads a large, global team of software engineers building next generation sustainability, asset management & supply chain technologies using AI & IoT. Suzanne’s organization is responsible for the architecture, development, support, and DevOps of Maximo, TRIRIGA, Envizi, Order Management, and Supply Chain and Environmental Intelligence Suites. Throughout her career, Suzanne has a track record of growing research innovations into major new product portfolios including blockchain, food safety, traceability in the supply chain, fintech developer tools, social software, audio/video collaboration, email, and messaging, ranging to $1B portfolios and including the world’s largest blockchain network for transparency in the food supply chain. Suzanne has a passion for product management, user-focused solution development, and aligning design & engineering around a compelling product strategy & vision. Suzanne’s expertise includes profitability modeling, sales forecasting, enabling go to market teams, creating digital channels, market and services alignment, offering operations, and measuring product and business health. A technologist at heart, Suzanne began her career in IBM Research and has since held leadership roles in development, user experience, and product management. Suzanne has a Masters in Engineering and Management from MIT, where she continues to mentor aspiring entrepreneurs and product managers.