Wayne S. Balta is the Vice President of Corporate Environmental Affairs and Product Safety at IBM Corporation where he has global responsibility for environmental affairs, energy efficiency, chemical management and toxicology, as well as product safety and related hardware compliance functions. He joined IBM in 1984 as project manager for design and construction in the real estate and construction division. In 1989, he was appointed executive assistant to the corporate vice president in charge of real estate. In 1990, he became responsible for IBM’s corporate environmental plans and strategy. Two years later, in 1992, he became Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs. Mr. Balta became Vice President of Corporate Environmental Affairs & Product Safety in 2001. Mr. Balta has also played a leadership role in a variety of other organizations. He is presently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Environment Center. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute. He is a member and past Chairman of The Conference Board's Chief Environment, Health & Safety Officers Council. He serves as IBM’s Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He is also on the Executive Board of the Eco Patent Commons. In addition, Mr. Balta is a member of the President's Advisory Board for Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He also serves on the Dean’s Council for the College of Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon. He is the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Alumni Service Award from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon. Mr. Balta received a Bachelor of Science Degree in civil engineering with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and a Master of Science Degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Tau Beta Pi Fellow, in 1984. He was inducted into the Tau Beta Pi national engineering honor society, the Chi Epsilon national civil engineering honor society, and the Sigma Xi scientific research society. Mr. Balta is married. He and his wife Maritza have two children.