Adalio T. Sanchez is a president of S Group Advisory, a management consulting firm, and an industry leader in the information technology hardware, software, and semiconductor markets. He is a 32 year veteran of the IBM Corporation where he held various senior executive officer and global general management roles. He rose from technical staff engineer to global leadership and strategy roles, developing expertise in R&D, strategy, supply chain
operations, and mergers and acquisitions. He was instrumental in developing IBM’s early personal computers and, as head of R&D of IBM ThinkPad, spearheaded the formation of the Bluetooth industry consortium that made the technology ubiquitous. He also led the transformation and growth of several global IBM divisions in the systems, storage, and semiconductor spaces, and oversaw the creation of several of the world’s most powerful supercomputer
systems. After IBM, he was senior vice president of Lenovo Group Limited. Adalio was the 2007 U.S. Hispanic Engineer of the Year and has frequently been named to the list of the Top 100 Hispanics in Technology and Business. He sits on the board of ACI Worldwide, Inc., a global software company facilitating real-time electronics payments where he chairs the Compensation Committee; Avnet, Inc., a global electronics components and technology
solutions sales and distribution company; ASM International, a Dutch based semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment company; and Snap One Holdings Corporation, a smart home technology solutions and distribution company. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the MITRE Corporation and is also vice chairman of the Florida International University Foundation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Miami and an MBA from FIU.