David Laux
Global Executive, Games & Interactive Entertainment
IBM

As the Global Executive for Games and Interactive Entertainment, Dave leads IBM SMB's Sales and Marketing efforts in this rapidly growing and strategically important Industry. A long time industry participant (played a lot of games) Dave is responsible for helping Games and Entertainment companies leverage IBM's strength and assets to reduce expenses while increasing efficiency and profitability. Dave has worked with a number of the largest and leading games developers and publishers all over the world to enhance the overall development, delivery, and operations of their games.

Dave has presented at a number of leading Games conferences including The Game Developers Conference, Austin Games Conference, Digital Hollywood, China Joy, E3 and many others. He has also been quoted on games topics in The Wall Street Journal, Gamasutra, Game Daily, Marketwire, Game Planet, AfterTV and several other publications. Currently, there are a number of Dave's podcasts on the games industry and technologies available on the web.

Dave actively encourages industry interest and participation among High School girls and minority students through the presentation of IBM Future of Games program at High Schools throughout the community.

Dave joined IBM in 1994 to help form a new sales organization, which grew in sales from $25 Million to $1.6 Billion in 1998. Dave went on to lead a national Telecommunications Sales Team for IBM and IBM's GMB 'NetGen' Business Unit. In 2000 Dave joined IBM's Venture Development Organization to explore new emerging opportunities for IBM, as well as managing IBM's relationship with several key Venture Capital Firms.

Dave was an Investment Banker and Retail Broker for several National and Regional Investment Banks and Brokerage firms prior to joining IBM. He also started and managed several successful entrepreneurial endeavors.