William Malz

CTO, Account Technical Leader - State Street at IBM

Greater Hartford, United States

About William Malz

William Malz is CTO, Account Technical Leader - State Street at IBM. Location: Greater Hartford, United States.

I lead complex technology transformations for global enterprises, bridging high-level business strategy with deep hands-on technical architecture. Over a 25+ year career, I’ve built a reputation for helping Fortune 500 leadership navigate monumental tech shifts—from pioneering carrier-class email and LDAP infrastructure to shaping tens-of-millions in hybrid cloud and software architecture deals on a recurring basis. As Field CTO and Account Technical Leader at IBM, I advise executive stakeholders at major financial institutions like State Street on cloud strategy, OpenShift adoption, and legacy-to-modern architecture. My perspective combines enterprise platform scale with proven entrepreneurial execution: I previously drove cloud modernization for AWS’s largest global strategic accounts, and spent over a decade bootstrapping OC4 from zero to a highly regarded boutique consultancy that engineered first-of-their-kind public cloud adoptions for major financial and healthcare organizations without taking outside funding. Core Leadership & Technical Focus - Executive & Field CTO Advisory: Translating top-line business imperatives into resilient, large-scale enterprise architecture for global financial institutions. - Cloud Architecture & Modernization: Enterprise-scale public/hybrid cloud adoption (8x AWS Certified, Red Hat OpenShift, Cloud Paks). - Highly Regulated Verticals: Navigating complex security, governance, and regulatory requirements in Financial Services, Healthcare, and Defense. - Entrepreneurial Scale & Execution: Bootstrapping and scaling technical organizations, mentoring high-performing engineering teams, and leading worldwide technical activation initiatives.

Skills

  • Computer Hardware
  • DEC Alpha
  • Unix

Additional experience

  • Principal Solution Architect - Worldwide Activation

    IBM

    January 2022 – December 2022

Education

  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania