Another Indian executive took office.
On April 6, US time, IBM announced that Arvind Krishna (Alvind Krishna) formally took office as CEO. On the same day, Krishna issued a letter of all staff, saying that IBM will focus on human resources. As the key technology of the future, intelligent and hybrid cloud, IBM is an indispensable role in the current epidemic.
In fact, on January 30, IBM announced the appointment news. After more than two months, Krishna officially took office. Before that, he was the head of the IBM cloud computing business.
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About Alvind Krishna
Krishna has a “template-style” Indian elite resume, born in India, graduated from India, graduate student, Ph.D. in the United States … In 1962, Krishna was born in Andhra Pradesh, India, and studied at Kanpur University Indian Institute of Technology (Indian Institute of Technology consists of several branches), this school must not need to repeat, India’s top engineering school, Google CEO Pichai and others also graduated from this school.
After coming to the United States, Krishna received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 1990, Krishna started his career at IBM as an engineer. Krishna, 57, is nowIBM spent 30 years. His earliest job was the position of security and data engineer responsible for the computing system Watson.
Krishna ’s resume from Linkedin
In 2015, Krishna was promoted to senior vice president, and in 2017, he became the leader of the IBM cloud computing business.
Krishna ’s greatest achievement after he was promoted to management was dominating IBM ’s acquisition of Red Hat. In October 2018, IBM officially acquired the open source software company Red Hat for $ 34 billion. At that time, Krishna’s position was the senior vice president of IBM hybrid cloud and the head of IBM Research, the largest in IBM’s history. He has played an important role in the merger and acquisition, and he is also the chief architect of the acquisition.
In January 2019, Krishna took over as senior vice president of IBM Cloud, overseeing the IBM Cloud platform, IBM security department, cognitive applications business, and the IBM Research Institute, which is responsible for cutting-edge business exploration such as quantum computers. The cloud is IBM’s bet on the future. The importance of this position is self-evident. Since then, IBM has intentionally cultivated Krishna to become another Indian CEO of Silicon Valley.
It should be noted that Krishna is 100% technical, which distinguishes him from the previous three CEOs of IBM. Gartner cloud computing analyst Craig Lowery said that IBM ’s appointment decision helps ensure that Cloud strategy succeeded because Krishna’s career has been focused on related technologies.