Michael Martine is an inquisitive, collaborative and global ‘connector of dots’ whose leadership roles have spanned business and technology for the past 25 years.Michael is currently the Director, Asset Engineering, a business and information technology executive in IBM’s Services division. He leads an extraordinarily talented team of professionals from across the globe, including people from China, Egypt, Hungary, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Philippines, Romania, South Africa, Taiwan and the United States. This global team of several hundred professionals builds, enhances and maintains IBM Consulting’s differentiated software Assets. These Assets represent the best of IBM Consulting’s intellectual property, co-created with clients, scaled from cutting edge IBM Research innovation and accelerated from the recent IBM Consulting acquisitions such as Nordcloud and Expertus.In addition, Michael leads the team responsible for the Merger & Acquisition Accelerator Asset, which is specifically designed to unify and manage a corporation’s M&A activities.More on the Merger & Acquisition Accelerator is available here -- www.ibm.com/services/merger-acquisition .Incorporating Assets into IBM’s Offering Management provides market differentiation, accelerated time to value for IBM’s clients, as well as a business platform based roadmap for clients on their digital transformation and cognitive enterprise journey.   Along with these client benefits, the IBM portfolio of Service Assets is an important contributor to market success and profitability to IBM, measured in hundreds of millions of dollars.Michael’s deep global experience includes his MBA in International Management from Thunderbird and studies at the Technical University in Berlin as well as his two year expatriate assignment in Budapest, Hungary.   He holds a black belt in the Japanese To-Shin Do Ninjutsu martial art and is continuing his studies with his children.Michael is an innovative professional, with a keen interest in quantum, artificial intelligence, social, mobile, blockchain, analytics and cloud technology, with more than 20 years of business and technical insight.   He has been granted several patents for his innovations in the insurance, telecommunications, travel and retail industries. Michael is passionate about education. He pours his volunteer time into improving STEAM opportunities for the next generation of inventors and innovators, and finds joy as a podcaster, sousaphone musician and martial artist.