Ginni Rometty
American business executive (born 1957) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty (born July 29, 1957) is an American business executive who served as executive chairman of IBM after stepping down as CEO on April 1, 2020. She previously served as chairman, president and CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to head the company. She retired from IBM on December 31, 2020, after a near-40 year career at IBM.[1][2][3] Prior to becoming president and CEO in January 2012, she first joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and subsequently headed global sales, marketing, and strategy.[4][5] While general manager of IBM's global services division, in 2002 she helped negotiate IBM's purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers' IT consulting business, becoming known for her work integrating the two companies.[6][7] As CEO, she focused IBM on analytics, cloud computing, and cognitive computing systems.[8][9]
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| Born | Virginia Marie Nicosia July 29, 1957 |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University (BS) |
| Spouse | Mark Anthony Rometty (m. 1979) |
Rometty's tenure as IBM's CEO was marked by awards including by Bloomberg's 50 Most Influential People in the World,[10] Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business", Time's 20 Most Important People in Tech and Forbes' America's Top 50 Women In Tech.[11][12][5][13][14] Her tenure was also met by fierce criticism relating to executive compensation bonuses, layoffs, outsourcing, and presiding over 24 consecutive quarters of revenue decline.[15][16][17]