Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna (born 1962) is an Indian-American business executive serving as Chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman & CEO in January 2021. Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions. He was a principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the Company’s history.
Early life.
Krishna was born in West Godavari, India. His father, Major General Vinod Krishna, was an army officer who worked for the Indian Army and his mother, Aarathi Krishna, worked for the welfare of Army widows.
Education.
He completed schooling in Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, before receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1985. He subsequently moved to the United States to earn a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991. He is the recipient of distinguished alumni awards from both IIT, Kanpur and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Career.
Professional Career.
Krishna joined IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and continued in Watson Research for 18 years till 2009. Next he held General Manager role in Information management software and systems and technology group of IBM. In 2015, he was promoted to senior vice president of IBM Research. He later became senior vice president of IBM's cloud and cognitive software division. 
He also led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain. He was a driving force behind IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, which closed in July 2019.
He was appointed IBM's CEO in January 2020, effective April 6, 2020, succeeding Ginni Rometty, who had served as CEO since 2012. He joined Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen, and Sundar Pichai as an Indian CEO of a major United States technology company.
Research.
He has co-authored dozens of patents, has been the editor of IEEE and ACM journals, and has published extensively in technical journals.