New Delhi (NVI): Indian-origin technology executive Arvind Krishna has been named as the chief executive officer (CEO) of American IT giant International Business Machines (IBM), replacing longtime CEO Virginia Rometty.
The IBM Board of Directors elected Krishna as company CEO and member of the Board of Directors effective April 6.
57 year-old Arvind Krishna is currently senior vice president for IBM’s cloud and cognitive software unit and was a principal architect of the company’s purchase of Red Hat.
He 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.
Arvind Krishna’s appointment as head of the global IT giant adds to the growing list of Indian-origin executives at the helm of some of the biggest multinational companies.
Mr Krishna joins the club that includes Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga, PepsiCo’s former CEO Indra Nooyi and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen.
