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Arvind Krishna
Title: Chairman and CEO Company: IBM Industry: Technology
Arvind has successfully led IBM into a high-growth hybrid cloud and AI leader. Joining the firm in 1990, Arvind held key leadership positions across IBM Research and Cloud, where he was instrumental in the US $ 34bn acquisition of Red Hat. Appointed CEO in 2010 and Chairman in 2021, he holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois. Arvind has streamlined IBM’ s focus by spinning off legacy services to concentrate on core software, consulting and quantum innovation. Under his leadership, IBM’ s watsonx platform and Red Hat OpenShift serve as essential architecture for Fortune 500 enterprises, securing the critical computing backbones, hybrid networks and AI deployments that process the vast majority of global financial transactions and enterprise data.
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