Ted Childs is IBM's Vice President, Global Workforce Diversity with worldwide responsibility for workforce diversity programs and policies.

In addition to a variety of human resource staff and management assignments, Ted served as Executive Assistant to Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks, Executive Director of the NAACP, on an IBM Social Service Leave from March 1982 to September 1983.

Ted is a 1967 graduate of West Virginia State College and a member of the board of directors and a past president of the West Virginia State College Foundation. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC); The Conference Board's Work Force Diversity Council; and the Leadership Education for Asian Pacific's Board of Directors (LEAP).

In December 1989, Ted was appointed by Governor Mario Cuomo to the New York State Governor's Advisory Council on Child Care. In May 1992, Ted was named co-chair of the National Council of Jewish Women's Work Family Advisory Board and in November of that year this organization presented him with their Founder's Award for commitment to quality of life issues for America's families.

In 1995, Robert B. Blancato, Executive Director of the White House Conference on Aging appointed Ted as an official delegate to the 1995 Conference. In 1996, Ted was invited by Vice President Albert Gore to serve on the eight person planning team for the 1996 Family Re-Union "V" that the Vice President and Mrs. Gore hosted in Nashville, TN. In 1997, Ted was named by "Working Mother" magazine as one of 25 Men Friends Of The Family — who have made it easier for working parents to raise and nurture children. Also in 1997, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Robert E. Rubin appointed Ted as an advisor to the Secretary's Working Group on Child Care to focus on best practices which address child care problems facing working parents.

In February of 1998, The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies presented Ms. Joan Lombardi, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch and Ted with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In March of 2000, Ted received the Diversity Awards 2000 For Excellence in Diversity in the Corporate Sector from Working Mother magazine. In 2001, Ted was installed as a Fellow in The National Academy of Human Resources. In 2002, Savoy magazine and the Women and Diversity Leadership Summit honored Ted with their Lifetime Achievement Awards. In 2003, the Human Rights Campaign presented IBM and Ted with its Corporate Leadership Award. Ted has received Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degrees from Pace University (2001) and West Virginia State College (2003). Ted holds life memberships in the NAACP, the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., The National Organization of Women (NOW), the Sierra Club, and the Bass Anglers Sportsmen Society.