Bill Lowe played a key role in the development of IBM's
personal systems business, including his service as
president of the company's Entry Systems Division from
March 1985 to December 1988.
The following is the text of a corporate biography
published in January 1988.
William C. Lowe is an IBM vice president and president
of the Entry Systems Division which has worldwide development,
product management and U.S. manufacturing responsibility
for IBM's general purpose, low-cost, personal-use computer
systems, graphics workstations and related software.
He joined IBM in 1962 as a product test engineer in
Endicott, New York. In 1975, he was named director of
development and manufacturing operations for the General
Systems Division in Atlanta, Georgia. In January 1977,
he was appointed director of strategic development for
GSD and, later that year, administrative assistant to
the division's president.
In January 1978, Mr. Lowe was named systems manager,
entry level systems, for GSD in Boca Raton, Florida,
and in November, lab director for the site. In March
1981, he was appointed a vice president of the Information
Systems Division and general manager of the IBM's Rochester,
Minnesota, facility. In 1982, he became vice president,
systems, and later, development, for the System Products
Division in White Plains, N.Y. Prior to becoming president
of ESD in March 1985, he was assistant group executive
for the Information Systems and Communications Group,
a position he assumed in August 1983. He was elected
an IBM vice president in January 1986.
Mr. Lowe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics
from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. He is
on the board of trustees at Polytechnic University in
Brooklyn, New York.
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