Kevin Bennett

IBM Account Partner

Kevin has been the Account Partner for Whiz Dynamics since the beginning of the relationship. He and the
CEO, Olenna, have a good relationship. He excels at formulating business strategies, project plans, and
communicating different aspects of the project to the client stakeholders and IBM Senior Management. His
expertise also lies in leading efforts that culminate in client acceptance of the results and providing guidance and
direction to the team.

On this project, Kevin is responsible for translating the requirements of Whiz Dynamics into formal agreements,
establishing specific solutions, and driving the project to successfully realize the expected benefits for the client
and IBM.

Kevin has a master’s degree in Automotive Engineering. He specializes in Cloud Computing, Virtualization,
and the Digital Experience. He also received his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the
Project Management Institute. He has worked for IBM for 15 years. He has performed various roles within IBM
and was promoted to Account Partner three years ago.
He is originally from Hursley, United Kingdom, but has been living in the United States for past eight years. He
is an ardent fan of soccer and enjoys watching matches on television with his son.

Kevin is known to be moderately aggressive, ambitious, extremely hardworking, approachable, and a great
motivator for his team. He has been proactively working with the Senior Management team of Whiz Dynamics
to identify their business objectives, priorities and directions, critical success factors, and to apply this
knowledge to establish and implement a strong account strategy for IBM.

Kevin is impressed by numbers and facts. He believes that data doesn’t lie. If people are presenting to him and
are unsure of their facts or don’t include hard data, he has a difficult time buying in. Kevin never met a data
scientist he didn’t like! He explores problems logically and really appreciates when any form of
communications that come his way follow a well thought out and logical format. He was president of his debate
club at university and this really has influenced how he approaches situations where he needs to influence or
impact an audience.

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 Rhythm Hope
IBM Project Manager

Rhythm Hope has been responsible for leading project teams at IBM for much of her career. She is deployed as
project manager on the Whiz Dynamics project. She has extensive experience with complex projects that
involve analyzing unstructured problems.
Rhythm has vast experience in problem solving project

She has extensive experience with complex projects that involve analyzing unstructured problems. She has
earned a reputation for making decisions to commit to a course of action after identifying and assessing
alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, resources, constraints, and organizational values. She provides
day-to-day direction to the project team and regular project status to the client and other stakeholders through
the IBM Seven Keys report.
Rhythm has oversight responsibility for scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables for IBM projects,
which includes applying Agile management techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk
management.

She is also responsible for tasking all project resources, including vendors, subcontractors, and establishing
effective communication plans with the project team and the client.

Rhythm is known for establishing and maintaining productive working relationships with different stakeholders
both within and across functional teams by collaborating and working effectively with them. She keeps herself
and others focused on achieving project goals by encouraging and motivating her project teams to deliver
promised results and inspires them to work tenaciously and collaboratively to consistently meet or exceed client
expectations.
Her colleagues and seniors appreciate her leadership qualities and the way she demonstrates resilience and
reacts positively to change while maintaining poise, focus, and flexibility when encountering difficulties or
obstacles.

Rhythm is the “process queen”. This is what led her to her current and most favorite role in IBM. She
genuinely likes plans, details, and timelines. Microsoft Project is her daily go to software. She likes to make
sure she never skips a key point in her presentations and feel those who do are just lazy. She wants to make sure
any audience she communicates with, regardless of channel, have everything they need to make a decision. If
people leave critical points out of their communications that could influence her action, she really gets on them
about it. Her favorite dream is about planning a royal wedding!

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