About Guest Speaker Ben Tao

Ben Tao serves as Forcepoint’s Vice President of Corporate Marketing, where he is responsible for brand and creative, web marketing, global events, customer executive programs, and marketing operations. Tao brings more than 17 years of marketing, product management, and strategy experience across the enterprise hardware, software, services, and cloud segments of the IT market.

Prior to joining Forcepoint, Tao served as the VP of worldwide marketing for IBM’s $6 billion analytics business, where he was responsible for both product marketing and demand generation. In that role, he focused on revitalizing the core, on-premises database, information integration, and advanced analytics businesses, while driving new growth in the data science and machine learning segments. Tao has also held various marketing leadership roles at SolarWinds and Dell Technologies.

Tao holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in materials science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.