Christina Shim is the Chief Sustainability Officer for IBM. She leads the use of AI and hybrid cloud technologies to accelerate progress toward sustainability and environmental stewardship across IBM’s operations, supply chain, products, and services. Shim previously served as the Global Head of IBM Sustainability Software, a multi-billion-dollar business that harnessed the power of AI, IoT, hybrid cloud, and more to provide clients with enterprise applications and industry solutions that helped translate sustainability ambition into action. She is also on IBM’s Responsible Technology Board.
Prior to IBM, Christina was Managing Director for Palladium International and spent time at several top-tier management consulting firms in New York, London, Singapore, and Washington DC. She serves as an Independent Director for 1-800-Flowers.com, a NASDAQ-listed company, and has served as mentor, advisor, or board member at various venture funds, fintech and climate tech startups, accelerators, non-profits, and to Princeton and Columbia University. She has been recognized as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen on climate change, and been quoted in media outlets including Reuters, Politico, Forbes, International Business Times, Bloomberg, and Fortune, among others.