Calline Sanchez

Since joining IBM full-time in 2001, Calline Sanchez has held four executive leadership positions. She is currently VP of TLS Global Logo Product Management & Strategy, leading a worldwide team of IBM service planners, offering leaders, and premium support specialists. She also serves as the Tucson & Phoenix Site Leader and Arizona and New Mexico State Leader.

Previously, Calline lead IBM Worldwide Systems Lab Services and Technical Universities, comprised of teams of technology consultants delivering systems and solutions to end users. She was also the engineering leader for the development of IBM's Enterprise Storage Systems and led the IBM Storage Program Management team to deliver the Storage Portfolio. This included Flash, Disk, Physical/Virtual Tape, and Data Back-up solutions.

Calline began her IBM career as a Software Engineer intern in 1999 after working at Sandia National Labs for several years. Ms. Sanchez is very involved in both the State and local community. She currently serves, or has served as a leader or board member in the following Councils and organizations: The Arizona-Mexico Commission, The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, The Arizona Tech Council, The Southern Arizona Leadership Council, University of Arizona School of Management Information Systems, The United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, and Angel Charity for Children Inc.

In 2018, Ms. Sanchez was 2018 Hispanic Business Woman of the Year by the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.