Curt L. Cotner

Designer and developer of many key features of DB2 for z/OS, Cotner has served as an IBM Fellow and VP/CTO for IBM Data Management. In that role, he held technical and management oversight of IBM's Data Studio and Optim products that provided application development and administration support for both IBM and non-IBM database products. He has served as Chief Technology Officer for the DB2 family as well as Informix IDS database servers and held both management and technology oversight responsibility for all the client software offerings used with DB2 and IDS.

This included the client runtime APIs (JDBC, .NET, CLI, pureQuery, etc.) and the application development and administration tools offerings (IBM Data Studio). Prior to taking that assignment, he served as the chief architect of the DB2 for z/OS product, where he designed and developed many key features of DB2 for z/OS.

Cotner holds approximately 40 patents in database technology topic areas. He has also been a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.