Taking the Reins: Anne Altman

Vice president of U.S. federal sales, IBM Public Sector, Bethesda, Md.41Arlington, Va.Fairfax, Va.Married to Xavier Alire with a daughter and a son, ages 11 and 7"Gailieo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith & Love," by Dava SobelMusic: A broad spectrum from classical and jazz to progressive rock. Singer: "My late brother, Jimm Altman."Poet: Pablo Neruda, "who can make anyone's heart sing."Horseback riding, cooking, skiing"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson"Who has time for TV?""One of our favorites is Taxco, Mexico."Bachelor of Science, marketing, George Mason University"Don't measure others as you measure yourself."19 years with IBM Corp. "Drive new e-business initiatives, particularly in solution areas such as customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and business intelligence. These play to our strengths and our already-established market presence in e-business for government. Grow share of IBM servers, storage and software in the federal marketplace. Optimize our channel coverage through business partners, [federal systems integrators] and the World Wide Web.""The federal market is critical to IBM. It is a strong and growing market where we have historically done very well."