Prior to joining IBM, Ted was President of Leadership Development Inc. (LDI), a management education and business consulting firm he founded in 1998. Over the past 11 years, Ted has personally led learning initiatives for Verizon, GTE, Citibank, United Technologies, Cigna, Johnson & Johnson, CSX and PepsiCo. Prior to founding LDI, he was a partner in The Center for Executive Development, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GTE won the ASTD “Excellence in Practice” awards for two different development initiatives in which Ted was deeply involved.

Ted serves as a Director of Courier Corporation, a printing and publishing company, and as Chairman of the Compensation Committee of the board. He also serves as a Director of MassINC, the leading public policy think tank in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and as a Director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

During the 1980s, Ted was a member of the Harvard Business School faculty teaching in the marketing area and conducting research in the areas of strategy, marketing, and sales leadership. While at Harvard, Ted authored or co-authored Harvard Business Review articles and numerous case studies. During that time, he helped lead the efforts to introduce and integrate the use of PCs into the MBA curriculum. He subsequently co-authored a textbook on the use of PCs and Lotus 1-2-3 in marketing analysis.

Ted received his MBA from Harvard Business School, graduating as a Baker Scholar, and a BS degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.

Prior to attending business school, Ted has served as Cabinet Secretary for the Governor of New Jersey and a legislative assistant for a U.S. Congressman.