Indian-American business executive and Chairman & CEO of IBM
Arvind Krishna (born 1962) is an
Indian-American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of
IBM . He has been CEO of IBM since April 2020 and chairman since January 2021.
[3]
[4] Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at its
Thomas J. Watson Research Center ,
[5] and was promoted to
senior vice president in 2015, managing
IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and
IBM Research divisions. He was a principal architect of the acquisition of
Red Hat , the largest acquisition in the company’s history.
[6]
[7]
Early life and education
Krishna was born into a
Telugu -speaking family in
West Godavari District in the
Coastal Andhra region of Andhra Pradesh, India.
[1]
[8] His father, Major General Vinod Krishna, was an army officer who served in the
Indian Army and his mother, Aarathi Krishna, worked for the welfare of Army widows.
[9]
[10]
Krishna received his education at
Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School ,
Coonoor, Tamil Nadu and at
St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun
[11] before receiving a BTech degree in
electrical engineering from
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1985.
[8] He subsequently moved to the United States to earn a
PhD in
electrical engineering from the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991.
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15] He is the recipient of distinguished alumni awards from both IIT Kanpur and the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
Career
Professional career
Krishna joined IBM's
Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1990,
[5] 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 .
[16] He later became senior vice president of IBM's
cloud and cognitive software division.
[8]
Krishna also led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in
artificial intelligence , cloud, quantum computing, and
blockchain technology .
[17]
[18] He was a driving force behind IBM's $34 billion acquisition of
Red Hat , which closed in July 2019.
[19]
[7]
He was appointed IBM's CEO in January 2020, effective April 6, 2020,
[20] succeeding
Ginni Rometty who was CEO since 2012.
[21] He joined
Satya Nadella ,
Shantanu Narayen , and
Sundar Pichai as an
Indian-American
CEO of a major
United States technology company.
[22]
[23] In 2021, he was named by
CRN as the year's "Most Influential Executive".
[24]
Research
He has co-authored 15
patents , has been the editor of
IEEE and
ACM journals, and has published extensively in technical journals.
[18]
See also
References
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"Meet Arvind Krishna, new IBM CEO who is latest south Indian to head global IT company" .
India Today . February 1, 2020.
Archived from the original on October 9, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
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"Indian-origin Arvind Krishna to take over as CEO of IBM in April; here's all you need to know about the man who succeeds Virginia Rometty" .
Firstpost . January 31, 2020.
Archived from the original on October 9, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
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"Arvind Krishna Elected IBM Chairman" . December 16, 2020. Retrieved October 22, 2021 .
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"IBM names Indian-origin Arvind Krishna as CEO" .
Deccan Chronicle .
Asian News International . January 31, 2020.
Archived from the original on October 5, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
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"IBM's 'surprise' CEO: Arvind Krishna to take over from Ginni Rometty" .
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Archived from the original on April 15, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2020 .
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Fortune .
Archived from the original on October 5, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
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"Arvind Krishna ascends beyond cloud at IBM" .
Economic Times . February 1, 2020. Archived from
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^ Sangani, Priyanka (February 3, 2020).
"Industry leaders, peers raise a toast to good news" .
Economic Times .
Archived from the original on October 5, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
^ John, Sujit; Phadnis, Shilpa; Das, Avik (February 1, 2020).
"Indian-origin technologist Arvind Krishna to lead IBM, joins club of global Indian CEOs" .
Times of India .
Archived from the original on October 5, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
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^ Krishna, Arvind.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvindkrishna/ .
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"Ginni Rometty to Step Down as C.E.O. of IBM" .
The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 .
Archived from the original on January 31, 2020. Retrieved January 31, 2020 .
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"Arvind Krishna: IBMer who joins elite Indian-origin CEOs' club" .
Outlook .
Indo-Asian News Service . January 31, 2020.
Archived from the original on January 31, 2020. Retrieved January 31, 2020 .
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"IITian Arvind Krishna appointed CEO of global tech giant IBM; 5 little known facts about him" .
Business Today . January 31, 2020.
Archived from the original on October 5, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
^ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (January 12, 2015).
"IBM Reorganizes To Reflect Its New Business Machine" . IT Jungle .
Archived from the original on January 1, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2020 .
^ Mendonca, Jochelle (January 31, 2020).
"IBM raises IITian Arvind Krishna to CEO effective April" .
Economic Times .
Archived from the original on March 5, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
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"Meet Arvind Krishna, the IIT Kanpur graduate who will be new CEO of IBM" .
Mint . January 31, 2020.
Archived from the original on January 31, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2020 .
^ Fortt, Jon (April 6, 2020).
"IBM's new CEO takes over today — here's his plan" .
CNBC .
Archived from the original on October 9, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2020 .
^ Fitch, Asa (January 30, 2020).
"IBM's Ginni Rometty Steps Down as CEO" .
The Wall Street Journal .
Archived from the original on October 5, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020 .
^ Carville, Olivia (January 30, 2020).
"IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO, Replacing Ginni Rometty" .
Bloomberg News .
Archived from the original on January 31, 2020. Retrieved January 31, 2020 .
^ Bhattacharya, Ananya (January 31, 2020).
"IBM has just given American big tech its third Indian-origin CEO" .
Quartz India .
Archived from the original on October 5, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
^ Khan, Tahira Noor (February 1, 2020).
"Arvind Krishna Becomes Latest Indian-Origin Executive To Lead a Global Tech Giant" .
Entrepreneur .
Archived from the original on October 5, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
^ Burke, Steven (August 2, 2021).
"2021 Most Influential Executive Arvind Krishna: 'I Bleed Blue' " .
CRN . Retrieved August 16, 2021 .
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CEO of IBM 2020–present
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