Arvind Krishna has been appointed as the new CEO for tech giant IBM and will be taking over the reins of the company from April 6th 2020 onwards. He will be succeeding Ginni Rometty who will be retiring from the company after 40 years. 

"I am thrilled and humbled to be elected as the next Chief Executive Officer of IBM, and appreciate the confidence that Ginni and the Board have placed in me," Krishna said in a press statement released by IBM.

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Rometty describes Krishna as a "brilliant technologists" and "right CEO for the next era at IBM". She stated, "Krishna has played a significant role in developing our key technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing and blockchain. He is also a superb operational leader, able to win today while building the business of tomorrowâ.

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If you arenât aware of who Arvind Krishna is, he is an IIT-Kanpur graduate and has done his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign. Personally. He is the co-author of 15 patents and has material publishes in journals. 

Krishna joined IBM in 1990 and is currently the senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software at IBM. Krishna has previously worked on security software and information management. Krishna has also been credited as the "principal architectâ of IBMâs Red Hat acquisition. It was IBMâs largest acquisition in its long history that cost $34 billion. 

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Krishna being appointed as the head of IBM is yet another name added to the list of Indian-Origin leaders heading a global technology company. Krishna is now part of an exclusive club of Indian-origin executives that include Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga, PepsiCo's former CEO Indra Nooyi, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. 

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