While India celebrates Arvind Krishna’s appointment — he identifies himself as an electrical engineer — it is a reminder that the country should do more to let a thousand such innovators bloom at home.
The most notable being Sundar Pichai of Google and Alphabet, Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Shantanu Narayen of Adobe. Arvind Krishna follows the likes of other Silicon Valley icons with an Indian benchmark. Arvind has 1 job listed on their profile. Arvind Krishna Born Arvind Krishna 1962 West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India Education IIT Kanpur (B.Tech) University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (PhD) Occupation Business executive Known for 10th CEO of IBM (effective from April 6th, 2020) Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) Title SVP of IBM Predecessor Ginni Rometty Parents Vijay Krishna (father) […] Arvind Krishna story is similar to those of many Indians in the US tech industry — he’d finished a degree from IIT Kanpur, before moving to the US to complete his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Arvind Krishna (MS '87, PhD '91) Illinois ECE alumnus Arvind Krishna (MS ’87, PhD ’91) has been elected as Chief Executive Officer of IBM, effective April 6, 2020. There are 16 older and 5 younger executives at International Business Machines. Arvind Krishna is 57, he's been the Chief Executive Officer and Director of International Business Machines since 2020. Arun Mohan Sukumar is a PhD candidate at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. View Arvind Krishna’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. The oldest executive at International Business Machines Corp. is Sidney Taurel, 71, who is the Independent Director. Arvind Krishna has an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Krishna is regarded as an elite and distinguished alumnus of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at … They all come from South India and educated at Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) In 1990, he’d joined IBM, and had been there ever since.