An Alternate Solution to the Equation

It’s always wonderful just to get your backstory. So how did you pivot from wanting to be, as I heard, a math professor, which is very interesting to me. And what led to your current success at Siemens?

Oh, first of all, I was raised by two math professors, both my mom and my dad taught mathematics. And so I was raised in a household where doing math was fun. It was solving math puzzles. And then the life we lived was fantastic. Imagine summer’s off, you know, camping all around the country.
So, I just was convinced that this was going to be the path for me. But in the second semester of my senior year at Wake Forest, companies started coming to interview and recruit future employees. One of those was IBM. And I thought to myself, you know, it’ll make me a better professor if I have a good understanding of what gets done in the business world.
So, when I was invited for an interview, offered a job, I said yes. And wow, it started this path that I could never have imagined as a student, you know, an opportunity to work on world-changing technologies, and then an opportunity to lead teams and ultimately, a path that led me to Siemens.