Noted IT historian and author, Cortada is also the founder and a board member of the IT History Society.
Cortada joined IBM in 1974 as a salesman, and held a variety of sales and marketing management jobs prior to joining the IBM Consulting Group in 1993. He has led numerous management consulting engagements concerned with process reengineering, distance learning strategies, change management, and strategic use of IT. His clients have included utility companies, universities, IBM, manufacturing firms, and grocery chains. He has been responsible for managing a series of business research projects in the Pharmaceutical Industry. He has served as a member of the IBM Institute for Business Value within IBM Global Services.
Dr. Cortada holds a BA, MA, and Ph.D. in modern history. He has been a member of the American Historical Association and Chairman of the Board of the Charles Babbage Foundation, and has served on the board of editors of several journals. Cortada has been a frequent speaker at business conferences and universities. Dr. Cortada is the author of 50 books and over one hundred articles on the history and management of information technologies, and has been writing a three-volume study of the role of computing and telecommunications in 46 American industries from the mid-twentieth century onward.
