Ginni Rometty

Ginni Rometty
Ginni Rometty at the Fortune MPW Summit in 2011
Born
Virginia Nicosia

(1957-07-29) July 29, 1957 (age 67)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationNorthwestern University (BS)
SpouseMark Rometty (1979–present)

Virginia "Ginni" Rometty (born July 29, 1957) is an American business executive who was executive chairman of IBM after stepping down as CEO on April 1, 2020. She was previously 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 there.[1][2][3] Before 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]

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]

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  2. ^ "IBM's Ginni Rometty Completes Her Ascent by Adding Chairman Role". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg L.P. September 26, 2012. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  3. ^ Aluise, Susan J. (May 10, 2012). "America's 10 Most Powerful Female CEOs". InvestorPlace. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  4. ^ "Ginni Rometty: Reinventing Big Blue", Barron's, Leslie P. Norton, May 31, 2014
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  6. ^ "IBM's Rometty Kept on Rising", Spencer E. Ante And Joann S. Lublin, Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2011
  7. ^ Hempel, Jessi (October 8, 2012). "IBM's Ginni Rometty looks ahead". Fortune.
  8. ^ Bellstrom, Kristen (September 15, 2015). "Fortune's Most Powerful Women List". Fortune.
  9. ^ "IBM grants CEO Ginni Rometty a record bonus after share surge", Financial Review, February 7, 2017
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  11. ^ "Ginni Rometty". Forbes.
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  15. ^ Danielle Wiener-Bronner (January 18, 2018). "IBM 's sales grew for the first time in 5 years". CNN.
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  17. ^ "Fortune Magazine". Gets a Raise Despite Tumbling Stock Price.