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Kevin Thompson
Kevin Thompson is a Senior Program Manager for Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs at IBM. In this role he supports IBM leadership as a specialist on the policies, trends and status of Corporate Citizenship worldwide among other corporations, NGOs, governments and multinational organizations. Project management responsibilities focus on the application of IBM’s technological expertise and global reach to the challenges and opportunities created by globalization and emerging markets. This includes leadership of the Corporate Service Corps (CSC) which exposes high performance IBM employees to the 21st century context for business – diverse cultures, policy environments and societal expectations – by placing teams of IBM employees into developing countries to work on core societal, educational and environmental challenges.
Additional responsibilities include integrating IBM’s societal programs and policies with business strategy, measurement of Corporate Citizenship performance, internal and external citizenship reporting, cross-company citizenship management systems, and engagement with the socially responsible investment community.
Kevin has held roles at IBM in global strategy, marketing management and distribution channels planning. Prior to IBM, he managed a farm in rural Ghana, West Africa as a US Peace Corps volunteer, and performed as a musician based in Massachusetts.
The CSC has been the top media story for IBM in 2008 with features in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times and numerous other publications. Kevin has been a featured speaker on Corporate Citizenship at Cornell University, Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center, University of Michigan, the Business for Social Responsibility annual conference and at convenings hosted by the Conference Board, Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine, and AHC Group. He is currently serving a three-year term on the Advisory Board of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.
Kevin holds MBA and MS degrees from Cornell University and a BA from the University of Massachusetts in Natural Systems. He lives in Dexter, Michigan with his wife, Manja.