Virginia Marie “Ginni” Rometty (born July 29, 1957) is an American business executive. She is the current chairman, president, 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.
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