Arvind Krishna

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Arvind Krishna
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Krishna in 2021
Born1962 (age 61–62)
West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India [1]
CitizenshipAmerican [2]
Education Stanes Anglo Indian School
St Joseph's Academy
Alma mater IIT Kanpur (B.Tech)
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (PhD)
TitleChairman & CEO, IBM
Predecessor Ginni Rometty

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]

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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]

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Preceded by CEO of IBM
2020–present		Succeeded by
Preceded by Executive Chairman of IBM
2020–present		Succeeded by
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