John Thompson

Male, Person

1942 –

12

Who is John Thompson?

John M. Thompson is the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Toronto-Dominion Bank Financial Corporation. He has held the position of Director at TDBFC since 1988 and has been chairman of the board since 2003.

He is also the retired Vice Chairman of the Board of IBM Corporation, a position he held from 2000-2002. Thompson is also a board member at Royal Philips Electronics N.V. and The Thomson Corporation. He is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Hospital for Sick Children and a director of the Atlantic Salmon Federation. He is a past director of the Hertz Corporation, the Robert Mondavi Corporation, the European Finance Foundation, the Conference Board of Canada and the Canadian Business Council for National Issues. He served on three Ontario Government Councils for education reform, human resources reform and industrial policy.

Thompson began his IBM career in Canada as a systems engineer in 1966. There, he held a variety of management jobs, before being elected President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM Canada, Ltd. in 1986. In January 1991, Thompson moved to the United States to become Corporate Vice President of Marketing, charged with developing IBM's strategy for entering the services business, now a $60 billion operation for IBM. In October 1993, he became Senior Vice President of IBM's Server Group, responsible for mainframe and midrange computers. From January 1995 until August 2002, he was the Senior Vice President responsible for forming IBM's Software Group, after which time he was elected Vice Chairman of the IBM Board.

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Born
1942
Education
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Western Ontario
Employment
  • IBM
Lived in
  • Montreal

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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