Dr. Krishna Nathan 

Dr. Krishna Nathan (*1962) is director of IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory. He joined IBM in 1991 at the T.J. Watson Research Center, where he held various research and management positions in pen computing, handwriting recognition, novel mobile platforms and related applications. From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Nathan was director for consumer voice systems in the software group, where he was responsible for world-wide sales, marketing and development of IBM's consumer line of speech products. Immediately prior to his current appointment he was Executive Assistant to the vice-chairman of the board of IBM.

Dr. Nathan holds a doctorate in electrical sciences from Brown University and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.