Ed Brill

Ed Brill is Director, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Lotus software.  In this position, Brill and his team are responsible for the product and market strategy for the Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino product family--market-leading collaborative software, LotusLive Notes, Lotus Symphony, Lotus Protector, and other related Lotus-branded software solutions.  Brill's focus is on growing and continuing IBM's success in messaging and collaboration solutions, through working with customers, business partners, and IBM sales, marketing, and product development organizations.  

In his seventeen-year career at IBM, Ed Brill has held a variety of sales, marketing, and product-related leadership roles.  Prior to his current position, Ed was Director, Product Management, Notes and Domino Products.  In that role, Brill's responsibilities included the market launch of Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 and 8.5.1 and the release of LotusLive Notes, an IBM cloud offering for messaging and collaboration.  Before returning to product management, Brill 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, was the lead offerings manager for Lotus enterprise messaging solutions, and managed product marketing for Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes. 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 social media and virtual communities. Committed to understanding the global marketplace, Ed has visited Lotus software customers in over 35 countries.  Ed also authors a weblog on collaboration at www.edbrill.com, widely recognized for its reach into the Lotus software community and beyond.

Outside of IBM, Brill is an active Chicago community member. A 25 year resident of Highland Park, Illinois USA, Brill writes "Highlands and Ravines", a weekly Patch opinion column, and previously wrote for the Chicago Tribune's TribLocal.

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

Last updated: September 15, 2011