Sarah Diamond Biography

Sarah Diamond is the Americas banking leader for the financial services sector at IBM Global Business Services. She oversees a practice consisting of business and technology advisory work, systems integration, application development, and business process outsourcing. She is responsible for the market development, sales, engagement delivery and overall execution of the practice. She has worked with most major banks and Wall Street firms, exchanges and regulators over the course of a 20-year career in financial services. She has led consulting engagements related to risk and regulatory driven initiatives, business strategy and business process management and merger integration, as well as guided the development and management of very significant client relationships. Before joining IBM, she worked for another global consulting firm where she was senior vice president in charge of the global markets group. She previously served as the global relationship partner for a leading global bank, and ran the western region banking and investment services practice. She started her career in international banking, working in the overseas auditing division in London and the capital markets risk management practice in New York of a global bank. She is a board member of the Women's Bond Club of New York and of the American Friends of St. Hilda's College, Oxford . She was recognized in Euromoney's 2005 guide to the world's leading financial services consultants and advisers. Diamond has an M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University , where she held a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, and an M.A. in modern history from Oxford University.