Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna (born 1962) is an Indian-American business executive serving as Chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman & CEO in January 2021.[3] Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center,[4] 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.[5][6]

This article is about the IBM executive. For other uses, see Arvind Krishna (disambiguation).

Arvind Krishna
Born1962 (age 58–59)
West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India[1]
CitizenshipUnited States[2]
EducationIIT Kanpur (BTech)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (MS, PhD)
OccupationChairman & CEO of IBM
EmployerIBM
PredecessorGinni Rometty

Early life and education

Krishna was born in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India.[1][7] His father, Major General Vinod Krishna, was an army officer who worked for the Indian Army and his mother, Aarathi Krishna, worked for the welfare of Army widows.[8][9]

He completed schooling in St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun and the Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, before receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1985.[7] He subsequently traveled to the United States to earn a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1990.[10][11][12] He is the recipient of distinguished alumni awards from both IIT, Kanpur and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Career

Krishna joined IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center,[4] and in 2015 was promoted to senior vice president of IBM Research.[13] He later became senior vice president of IBM's cloud and cognitive software division.[7] He has co-authored more than a dozen patents, has been the editor of IEEE and ACM journals, and has published extensively in technical journals.[14] He also led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain.[15][14] He was a driving force behind IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, which closed in July 2019.[16][6]

He was appointed to become IBM's CEO in January 2020, effective April 6, 2020,[17] succeeding Ginni Rometty, who had served as CEO since 2012.[18] He joined Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen, and Sundar Pichai as an Indian CEO of a major United States technology company.[19][20]

See also

References
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Business positions
Preceded by
Ginni Rometty		 CEO of IBM
2020–present		 Succeeded by
Present CEO
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