Don Leake's Bio

Don Leake, IBM - Treasurer

Donald E. Leake, Program Director for Copy, Protection Business Development, IBM Research Division: Don Leake brings over 35 years of IBM experience in the IT industry to his current position of program director for copy protection business development, IBM Research Division. Leake is responsible for promoting the use of IBM’s extensive menu of content protection technologies in IBM’s products and industry initiatives as the use of rich digital media becomes pervasive in IT applications. IBM’s content protection technologies include encryption, watermarking, fingerprinting and software tamper resistance. Leake also works closely with the Media and Entertainment Industry, in its transition to digital, through his participation in standards organizations, consortia, alliances and multi-company working relationships. As such, Leake is currently the IBM representative to the 4C group, AACS, HANA, DLNA CPG, The Copy Protection Technical Working Group, The Pro-MPEG Forum, and formerly was the IBM rep to the Secure Digital Music Initiative.

Previously, Leake managed the marketing, sales and customer support functions for the group in IBM that develops MPEG and set top box chips. In this role, Leake was responsible for establishing IBM leadership in the digital media chip business. Prior to that, Mr. Leake held a number of marketing and product planning management positions in IBM’s high-end and mid-range systems development organizations, including managing product planning for IBM’s largest commercial processors. He holds Batchelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Masters of Science degree in Statistics from Penn State University.