
Arvind Krishna
CEO of IBM
Education
- BTech degree - Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Overview
Arvind Krishna is the CEO of IBM .
Krishna joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1990, and continued in Watson Research for 18 years until 2009. Thereafter, he held a General Manager role in Information management software and systems and technology group of IBM. In 2015, he was promoted to senior vice president of IBM Research. He later became senior vice president of IBM's cloud and cognitive software division.
Krishna also led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain technology.He was a driving force behind IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, which closed in July 2019.
He was appointed IBM's CEO in January 2020, effective April 6, 2020, succeeding Ginni Rometty who was CEO since 2012. He joined Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen, and Sundar Pichai as an Indian-American CEO of a major United States technology company. In 2021, he was named by CRN as the year's "Most Influential Executive".
Early Life
Arvind Krishna was born on 1962.
Career
- IBM - CEO