Ed Brill

Ed Brill, Lotus Software, IBM Software Group

Ed Brill is Business Unit Executive, Worldwide Lotus Notes/Domino Sales, IBM Software Group.  In this position, Brill and his team are responsible for the continued worldwide success of Lotus Notes and Domino, market-leading collaborative software products.  Brill works with the IBM sales organization, IBM business partners, and customers to provide insight into the Lotus strategy, product direction, and market successes.  Brill leverages this in-market experience to provide counsel and direction to the Notes/Domino product and marketing organizations, ensuring constant improvement and responsiveness. During Brill's time in this role, the Lotus Notes/Domino business posted revenue growth for twelve consecutive quarters, and gained hundreds of new customers.

In his nearly 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 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: February 3, 2008