Clyde Richardson

Clyde is an accomplished IT professional with over 30 years of experience in the industry. He is currently serving as the Director of Go To Market Strategy & Product Manager for IBM Z AIOps at 21st Century Software. Clyde is skilled at building trust and authentic connections with customers and staff, and has a proven track record of converting critical client discussions into revenue-generating opportunities. His career includes time at Candle Corp, Rocket Software and IBM, where he focused on delivering IBM Z software solutions to clients in the Financial Services Market. He was among the first mainframe specialists at IBM to work with developers on cloud-native applications on the Red Hat OpenShift container platform. Clyde brings both a set of deep technical skills and a heart for helping others succeed to his mentorship practice.