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Arvind Krishna
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Arvind Krishna was born into the world in 1962 in Telugu Speaking family in West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is an Indian-American business chief filling in as Chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and assumed the job of Chairman and CEO in January 2021. Krishna started his profession at IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was elevated to Senior Vice President in 2015, overseeing IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions. He was a foremost modeler of the securing of Red Hat, the biggest procurement in the Company's set of experiences.

His dad, Major General Vinod Krishna, was a military official who worked for the Indian Army and his mom, Aarathi Krishna, worked for the government assistance of Army widows. He did his tutoring at Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu and at St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun prior to getting a four year college education in electrical designing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1985. He accordingly moved to the United States to procure a PhD in electrical designing from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991. He is the beneficiary of recognized graduated class grants from both IIT, Kanpur and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Krishna joined IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and proceeded in Watson Research for a very long time till 2009. Next he held General Manager part in Information the executives programming and frameworks and innovation gathering of IBM. In 2015, he was elevated to senior VP of IBM Research. He later became senior VP of IBM's cloud and psychological programming division. He likewise drove the structure and extension of new business sectors for IBM in man-made brainpower, cloud, quantum registering, and blockchain. He was a main impetus behind IBM's $34 billion procurement of Red Hat, which shut in July 2019. He was named IBM's CEO in January 2020, successful April 6, 2020, succeeding Ginni Rometty, who had filled in as CEO since 2012. He joined Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen, and Sundar Pichai as an Indian CEO of a significant United States innovation organization.

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