Krishna Arvind (Arvind Krishna)

Krishna Arvind (Arvind Krishna)

Biography

2020

Appointment of IBM as the CEO

On January 30, 2020 IBM announced Arvind Krishna's appointment to the CEO's post together Ginny Rometti who directed IT corporation for 8 years.

Krishna will officially head IBM on April 6, 2020, and Rometti will remain the chief executive of Board of Directors of the company until the end of the year. 62-year-old Ginny Rometti also took a position of the president of the company, now it is given to the former head of Red Hat Jim Uaytkherst.

Before heading IBM, Arvind Krishna directed in the company division which develops cloud services and the cognitive software. He was among the top managers who are responsible for the transaction on merger of Red Hat.

Besides, as the analyst of Moor Insights & Strategy Patrick Moorhead speaks, Arvind Krishna was responsible for development of "initiatives of IBM of new generation", including for projects in the field of a blockchain and quantum computings.

The analyst of Pund-IT Charles King considers Krishna the logical candidate for a post of the CEO of IBM, considering importance of cloud computing for the future of the company.

He is an excellent technologist. It did great job, directing the cloud direction of the company — the expert said.

IBM announced Arvind Krishna's appointment to the CEO's post

Arvind Krishna became the tenth CEO in the history of IBM. Under the leadership of Ginny Rommeti stocks of the company lost a quarter of cost in many respects because of problems in the course of transformation of business of IBM during an era of cloud computing, notes the SiliconANGLE edition.

Thanks to the long-term work experience in IBM, Arvind carried out many outstanding conversions and achieved good business results. It is original value. The leader having ample opportunities. He has good positions that messages of IBM and its clients during an era of cloud and cognitive computing — Rometti reported.

And here that Rometti told about 52-year-old Uaytkhersta holding today a position of the senior vice president of IBM and the CEO of Red Hat: "Jim is also the experienced leader. He long time positioned Red Hat as the leading provider of the corporate software with the open code and services, and today, having become a part of IBM, offers the technologies to wider audience".

According to the top analyst of Research Firm IDC Frank Gens, Ginny Rometti decided to retire. IBM did not confirm this information.

Arvind Krishna works in IBM since 1990. During the career in the company he held different executive positions including a post of the director of developments. On its account 15 of patents.^[1]

The analyst of Wedbush Securities company Moshe Katri called Arvind Krishna's appointment "long-awaited, but overdue replacement of the leadership", having added that at Rometti IBM "endured a painful, slow transient period to correspond to a new technology landscape".

Under the leadership of Rometti who was appointed the CEO in 2012 IBM purchased 65 companies, re-structured more than a half of a portfolio of the assets, built cloud business of $21 billion and strengthened the positions in the field of artificial intelligence, quantum computings and a blockchain.

Arvind Krishna is rather familiar with  an internal situation in  IBM and  will introduce a new sight on  software and  IoT on  the level of the top management,  RON Venzin from the Focal Point Solutions Group company cooperating with IBM says.

It will be interesting to look with whom it  surrounds itself(himself).  IBM  cannot remain the company of the traditional equipment and  operating systems. It becomes the company focused on  software. But  it brings up a question: what will be with  its  business of the computing equipment and  DWH? — he emphasized.

At Rometti IBM carried out reductions and  then bought other companies, but  at the same time  it was not always possible to implement advantages of such purchases, Venzin added.

Doubts in a possibility of Russia to create the quantum computer

On February 20 Arvind Krishna dropped a hint of doubt in capability of Russia to create the quantum computer. According to him, IBM for a decade is ahead of all in the world regarding development of such technologies. Read more here.

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