Arvind Krishna is an Indian-American business executive serving as the Chairman and CEO of IBM.
10 Facts About Arvind Krishna
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Arvind Krishna has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman in 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 did his schooling at Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu and at St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun before receiving a BTech degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1985.
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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 had served as 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.