INTNL BUS MACH: Arvind Krishna Elected IBM Chairman
17 Diciembre 2020 - 1:00AM
UK Regulatory
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The IBM (NYSE: IBM) board of directors has elected Arvind
Krishna chairman of the board, effective January 1, 2021. Mr.
Krishna, who is IBM's chief executive officer and a member of the
board, succeeds IBM executive chairman Virginia M. Rometty, who is
retiring on December 31, 2020, as the company previously announced
in January of this year.
Mr. Krishna, 58, was elected IBM's 10th CEO in January, and
assumed the position on April 6, 2020 after holding numerous senior
leadership positions in the company, most recently as IBM senior
vice president for cloud and cognitive software, where he was a
principal architect of the company's acquisition of Red Hat.
Recently, he announced the spin-off of IBM's $19 billion Managed
Infrastructure Services business, to be completed in 2021, which
will create two industry-leading companies and enable IBM to focus
on its leading open Hybrid Cloud and Artificial Intelligence
Platform. He joined IBM in 1990 and became a director of the
company in April.
Mrs. Rometty, 63, became IBM's chairman, chief executive officer
and president in 2012. During her tenure, she took bold strategic
actions to reposition IBM for the hybrid cloud and artificial
intelligence era. She reinvented IBM's portfolio, investing in
high-value segments of the IT market, divesting $9 billion of
businesses and growing new units organically and through
acquisition, including Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the
company's history, to position IBM for long-term success. At the
same time, she established IBM as the industry's leading voice in
technology ethics and data stewardship, and her commitment to the
reinvention of education for the digital era led to the explosive
growth of the six-year Pathways in Technology Early College High
Schools, or P-TECHs, which are helping prepare the workforce of the
future, serving hundreds of thousands of students in more than 240
schools in 28 countries.
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SOURCE: Intnl Bus. Mach
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