New Delhi: IBM (International Business Machine) names Arvind Krishna, IIT-Kanpur alumnus as CEO (Chief Executive Officer). Krishna has become the third Indian person of Indian origin to head a US-based multinational company after Microsoft Corp’s chief executive officer, Satya Nadella and Google CEO, Sundar Pichai.
Krishna, 57, is currently IBM Senior Vice-President and the head of IBM’s cloud and cognitive software unit and was a principal architect of the company’s purchase of Red Hat, which was completed last year.
IBM chief executive officer, Virginia Rometty, is likely to hand over the company’s reins to Krishna in April. Rometty said Krishna is a brilliant technologist who has played a significant “role in developing our key technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Cloud, Quantum Computing and Blockchain.”
“He is also a superb operational leader, able to win today while building the business of tomorrow,” she said.
Arvind Krishna had joined IBM in 1990 and has an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
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