Arvind Krishna was born on November 23,1962 and is an Indian-American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of IBM.
11 Facts About Arvind Krishna
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Arvind Krishna has been CEO of IBM since April 2020 and chairman since January 2021.
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Arvind Krishna was a principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the company's history.
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Arvind Krishna's 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.
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Arvind Krishna studied at Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, and at St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun.
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Arvind Krishna received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1985 and a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1991.
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Arvind Krishna later became senior vice president of IBM's cloud and cognitive software division.
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Arvind Krishna led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain technology.
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Arvind Krishna was a driving force behind IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, which closed in July 2019.
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Arvind Krishna was appointed IBM's CEO in January 2020, effective April 6,2020, succeeding Ginni Rometty who was CEO since 2012.
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Arvind Krishna joined Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen, and Sundar Pichai as an Indian-American CEO of a major United States technology company.