Arvind Krishna
CEO, IBM
Biography
Arvind Krishna 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. Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 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.
Career Timeline
Arvind Krishna (born November 23, 1962) is an Indian-American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of IBM.
Watson Research Center in 1990, and continued in Watson Research for 18 years until 2009.
He was a driving force behind IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, which closed in July 2019.
He was appointed IBM's CEO in January 2020, effective April 6, 2020, succeeding Ginni Rometty who was CEO since 2012.