Mr. Ennesser was the Vice President, IBMs Smarter City Partnerships, with responsibility to develop new business relationships and finding new ways to improve our clients’ time to value leveraging the entire IBM partner ecosystem specific to IBM's smarter city mission. He served as Vice President, Smarter and Innovation Alliances, Global Alliance Solutions, with overall responsibility for eight of IBM’s top sixteen worldwide Innovation, Cloud and Smarter partnerships.  His alliances focused on the growth of IBM's smarter offerings in healthcare, buildings, transportation and cities.  Jay was also a member of IBM's Green Sigma Coalition Executive team which works in partnership with ten industry leading companies focused on the acceleration of standards, policies and value to accelerate market growth through new innovative offerings. His alliance teams ensured the mutual success required for IBM, partners and joint clients. He left IBM in 2014.

Mr. Ennesser also held positions as:

- the Vice President for the i2 Software Alliance and the Vice President of Sales, IBM's e-marketplace solutions and supply chain management solutions, and

- Director for Electronics Industry Solutions, where he was responsible for the development and deployment of worldwide solutions. His solution areas of focus included product life cycle management, supply chain management, SCADA and ECAD offerings. In addition, he has held a series of IT development positions inside IBM's semiconductor manufacturing locations.

Mr. Ennesser holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.  He also serves on the Boards of Directors for the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals and the Arizona BioIndustry Association.