ARVIND KRISHNA,
Chairman & CEO - IBM Corporation
Over a 30-year IBM career, Arvind Krishna orchestrated the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition — the largest software deal in history — defining the hybrid cloud market. Under his leadership in 2026, IBM posted its strongest first-quarter free cash flow in over a decade, while committing $10 billion to quantum computing and pledging the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029. Krishna is boldly transforming IBM from a legacy enterprise into the definitive AI and quantum powerhouse of the next decade.
