Arvind Krishna Biography

Arvind Krishna serves as the CEO and Chairman of IBM. He was previously senior vice president Cloud and Cognitive Software leading a business unit that provides the cloud and data platforms on which IBM and its clients build the future including artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud. His responsibilities include IBM Research Hybrid Cloud Security and Cognitive Applications as well as the impending acquisition of Red Hat.

In his former role, Arvind led the unit’s strategy product design offering development marketing sales and service. He also guides IBM’s overall strategy in core and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence quantum computing blockchain cloud platform services data-driven solutions and nanotechnology.

Mr. Krishna is only the eleventh person to hold this position in the seven-decade history of the IBM Research labs. He served as General Manager of IBM Systems and Technology Group’s Development and Manufacturing organization. He served as General Manager of IBM Information Management which included database information integration and Big Data software solutions. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Strategy for IBM Software where he identified more than 10 companies to acquire and led the integration of their operations into IBM.

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