Anthony leads IBM’s company-wide mission in open innovation for AI, including open source software, open data and models, partnerships, developer relations, and community enablement. In this role, he has transformed IBM’s product strategy to be based on open technologies and launched new IBM-led community projects in open data tooling, instruction tuning, the Granite family of foundation models, and application-enabling tooling and platform integrations for developer enablement.

He also led the creation and launch of the AI Alliance with Meta—now more than 100 leading AI technology and research organizations—to support and accelerate open, safe, and trusted generative AI research and development.

Previously, Anthony started and led product and engineering for IBM’s AI-accelerated science platform for hybrid AI and HPC workflows. Before that, he founded IBM’s Quantum computing business, driving its growth from concept to global leadership.

Anthony began his career as a physicist researching superconductors and spintronics for advanced semiconductor-integrated devices. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Yale University and holds 105 patents.