Prime Minister interacts with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna

July 22, 2020

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has interacted with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) CEO Shri Arvind Krishna via video conferencing and congratulated him for becoming the global head of IBM earlier this year. PM mentioned the strong connect of IBM with India and its huge presence in the country, with over one lakh people working across 20 cities in the company.

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Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna (born 1962) is an Indian-American business executive.

He became the chief executive officer (CEO) of IBM in early 2020.

With this he joined Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Shantanu Narayen (Adobe), and Sundar Pichai (Google) as an Indian CEO of a major United States technology company.

International Business Machines Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries.

The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed “International Business Machines” in 1924.

IBM is incorporated in New York.

Nicknamed Big Blue, IBM is one of 30 companies included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and one of the world’s largest employers, with (as of 2018) over 352,600 employees, known as “IBMers”.