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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: IBM Industry: Technology

Arvind Krishna commands IBM with the technical understanding of a veteran scientist, steering the iconic tech pioneer into a new frontier of hybrid cloud and AI. A doctorate holder in electrical engineering, the former research director spent three decades building foundational systems before taking the helm as CEO in 2020. Krishna famously architected the transformative US $ 34bn acquisition of Red Hat. Today, he aggressively positions the firm at the forefront of enterprise AI innovation, quantum computing and nextgeneration software architecture.

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