Al Zollar

Al Zollar

Al Zollar is an Executive Partner with SIRIS Capital Group, LLC since February 2014. Al retired from IBM in January, 2011 following a successful 34 year career. He is a past Harvard Fellow in the 2011 cohort of the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Al was formerly general manager of IBM Tivoli Software from July 2004 until January 2011, where he was responsible for the executive leadership, strategy and P&L of the Tivoli brand, a global, multi-billion dollar business within IBM's $20B+ Software business. Previously, Al was general manager, IBM iSeries, where he was responsible for the executive leadership, strategy and P&L of the iSeries (formerly AS/400) server product line. Before that he held senior management positions in each of IBM's diverse software businesses, including general manager of IBM Lotus Software. He has been issued US Patent # 8,261,329 B2, "Trust and Identity in Secure Calendar Sharing Collaboration". Al holds a master's degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego, where in 2011 he was named one of 50 distinguished alumni of the University.