IITK Alumni Arvind Krishna To Drive IBM as CEO

It's time to move on for Virginia Rometty, who the current CEO of IBM. With this news, name of Arvind Krishna have been mentioned as the new CEO of IBM.  Experts calls Krishna as “brilliant technologist” who has played a crucial role in building IBM’s key technologies. According to IBM, Arvind has helped in building technologies like artificial intelligence, cognitive computing quantum computing, distributed ledger, cloud services, data analytics solutions, and nanotechnology.

According to reports, Krishna was the “principal architect” of the company’s acquisition of Red Hat, one of the most significant acquisitions for IBM. The diverse set of things and business operations Arvind Krishna has led makes him a Renaissance Man for IBM.

Having an engineering degree from India's flagship Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) and a PhD from the University of Illinois, Krishna has done over the years which rose him to the top of the corporate chain of a goliath such as IBM.