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The following is a chronological list of people who have served as chief executive officer of IBM, an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. Thomas J. Watson (1914–1956) [1] Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1956–1971) [1] T. Vincent Learson (1971–1973) [1] Frank T. Cary (1973–1981) [1]
Named the first female CEO in IBM's century-long history, Virginia M. Rometty continued Palmisano's focus upon specialized high-margin niches like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain through a challenging decade as cloud computing gained widespread enterprise adoption.
As IBM’s CEO for 42 years, Watson would shape the company into a global force in technology, management and culture.
Arvind Krishna (born November 23, 1962) [3] is an Indian-American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been CEO of IBM since April 2020 and chairman since January 2021.
IBM’s founding CEO aspired to make the world a better place. The company and its employees continue the effort daily. A proud history of building the world’s most powerful computers.
Gerstner was the first IBM CEO who was hired from outside the company. Upon becoming chief executive of IBM, Gerstner declared: "the last thing IBM needs right now is a vision", as he instead focused on execution, decisiveness, simplifying the organization for speed, and breaking the gridlock. [13]
To create some continuities, two overarching themes weave through the entire discussion: one, transformations, consistencies, and countervailing tensions in IBM's behavior over time; and, two, the nature of its legendary “strong” culture, what IBM's CEO in the 1990s, Louis Gerstner, critically called “deeply inbred and ingrown.” Footnote 2
