Ginni Rometty is the Chairman, President and CEO of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation), a USA-based multinational technology company. Rometty has been CEO of the 106 year old business since 2012.
Rometty joined IBM in 1981 as a systems engineer. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1979 with degree in computer science and electrical engineering. As CEO, she currently has an annual salary of $33million – one of the highest salaries for a tech CEO.
IBM operates in the business of cloud computing, cognitive computing, commerce, data and analytics, IT, Internet of Things, mobile and security. Their tech platform Watson has garnered considerable media interest since its appearance on gameshow Jeopardy (which it won), and it is now used in business, healthcare, call centres and universities. It uses machine learning and language processing to process large amounts of data.
IBM has around 400,000 employees in hundreds of countries around the world. Its revenue last year was $79.9billion. As CEO of IBM, Rometty aims to focus on cloud computing, and systems like Watson.
Rometty has been named among the 50 most influential people in the world by Bloomberg, and has been named among Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business for ten consecutive years.
