Luke Palamara is a product portfolio manager for Watson products at IBM. Luke manages a team of product managers responsible for driving the world-wide strategy for IBM Watson group's platform and products focused on cognitive computing. Before being acquired through IBM's Vivisimo acquisition, Luke was Vivisimo's professional services manager -- responsible for managing consulting staff and developing the services implementation strategy for Vivsimo's US Government and Fortune 500 companies. Luke graduated from Penn State University with a B.S. in computer engineering and an M.S. in computer science from American University in Washington DC. Luke also holds an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business.