Ed Brill

Ed Brill, Director, Lotus Software, IBM Software Group

Ed Brill is Director, End-User Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Lotus software.  In this position, Brill and his team are responsible for the product and market strategy for Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes, market-leading collaborative software, Lotus Symphony, a no-charge, complete office productivity solution, and other related Lotus-branded software solutions.  Brill's focus is on increasing IBM's success from the perspective of end-user collaboration software, working with customers, business partners, and IBM sales, marketing, and product development organizations.

In his fourteen-year career at IBM Lotus, Ed Brill has held a variety of sales, marketing, and product-related leadership roles.  Prior to his current position, Ed was Business Unit Executive, Worldwide Sales for Lotus Notes and Domino.  During Brill's time as the product sales executive, the Lotus Notes/Domino business posted year-to-year quarterly revenue growth for four years, and gained thousands of new customers.  Earlier in his IBM career, Brill managed Lotus competitive strategy, guiding Lotus software offerings to market-leading positions and anticipating future market trends.  Ed was also the lead offerings manager for Lotus enterprise messaging solutions and managed product marketing for Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes. In addition, Ed led the team responsible for market introduction of the award-winning Lotus iNotes Web Access.  Ed has also held key leadership roles in Lotus strategic marketing and product management organizations, contributing to the development and release of Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino R5. Ed's technical background also includes four years as a Chicago-based Lotus systems engineer, where he contributed to building some of the largest and most successful Lotus Notes and Domino customers worldwide.

A frequent speaker at IBM and industry events worldwide, Ed is well known for direct contributions to the many Lotus software-focused virtual communities, including the IBM developerWorks:Lotus and Lotus partner communities. Committed to understanding the global marketplace, Ed has visited Lotus software customers in over 30 countries.  Ed also authors a weblog on collaboration at www.edbrill.com , which is ranked in the top 20,000 weblogs by Technorati.

Ed's technical background includes nineteen years in the messaging field, including ground-breaking work with SMTP and the Internet in the late 1980's, and deployment of a large Lotus messaging environment at U.S. Robotics in Illinois.

Ed holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from Indiana University.

Last updated: October 6, 2008