Ginni Rometty

Virginia Marie “Ginni” Rometty (born July 29, 1957) is an American business executive. She is the current chairmanpresident, and CEOof IBM, and the first woman to head the company.  Prior to becoming president and CEO in January 2012, she held the positions of senior vice president and group executive for sales, marketing, and strategy at IBM. She joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981.

Ginni Rometty
Ginni Rometty at the Fortune MPW Summit in 2011

Rometty at the 2011 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit

Born Virginia Marie Nicosia[1][2]
July 29, 1957 (age 60)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education Northwestern University (B.S.)
Occupation Chairmanpresident, and CEOof IBM
Salary US$32.7m of total compensation including US$24.9m of stock awards (2016)
Predecessor Samuel J. Palmisano

Rometty’s tenure as CEO has been marked by prestigious awards including by Bloomberg who named her among the 50 Most Influential People in the World, and Fortunenaming her among the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” for ten consecutive years. Her tenure as CEO has been met by criticism related to executive compensation, outsourcing, and IBM’s 22 consecutive quarters of revenue decline

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Ginni Rometty was last modified: January 5th, 2018 by Jovan Stosic

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