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Arvind Krishna

Chairman, President and CEO of IBM; earlier led IBM Research and IBM's Cloud and Cognitive Software unit

  • Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM231

Arvind Krishna is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM, as listed on IBM's senior leadership page and newsroom biography. IBM's biography describes a long career at the company that included heading IBM Research, serving as senior vice president of Cloud and Cognitive Software, and serving as general manager of the development and manufacturing organization of IBM Systems and Technology Group. It credits Krishna with driving IBM's acquisition of Red Hat, founding IBM's security software business, and scientific contributions in wireless networking, security, systems, and databases.123

Work

  • IBM's acquisition of Red Hat (external site: newsroom.ibm.com)

    IBM's executive biography states that Krishna drove IBM's acquisition of Red Hat, which is now part of IBM; IBM's senior leadership page lists the CEO of Red Hat among IBM's senior leaders.12

  • IBM security software business

    IBM's executive biography states that Krishna founded IBM's security software business and made scientific contributions in wireless networking, security, systems, and databases.1

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.

  • Senior Vice President, Cloud and Cognitive Software; earlier head of IBM Research, IBM1

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