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Ginni Rometty

January 01, 1970

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]

Ginni Rometty
Born
Virginia Nicosia

(1957-07-29) July 29, 1957 (age 66)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationNorthwestern University (BS)
SpouseMark Rometty (1979–present)

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]

Early life and education edit

Ginni Rometty was born on July 29, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois, as Virginia Nicosia.[18][19][3] Growing up outside Chicago, she was the eldest of four children in an Italian-American family.[4] Her parents divorced and her father left when she was fifteen years old, and her mother subsequently took on multiple jobs to support the family while Rometty looked after the household in the evenings.[19][18][20]

She began attending Northwestern University in Illinois in 1975 on a scholarship from General Motors, where she interned between her junior and senior years.[20] Rometty was also a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, eventually becoming its president.[7] She graduated with high honors from the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in 1979,[19][5] receiving a bachelor's degree in computer science and electrical engineering.[21][19] She has received honorary doctoral degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2014)[22] and Northwestern University (2015).[23] She also received an honorary degree from North Carolina State University.[24]

Career edit

1979–1990s: GM and IBM technical positions edit

After graduation in 1979, Rometty went to work for General Motors Institute[21] in Flint,[7] where she was responsible for application and systems development.[5] In 1981 she joined IBM as a systems analyst[18] and systems engineer in Detroit.[21][7] Initially working with clients in the insurance industry,[6] she spent her first ten years at IBM in technical positions.[18] The New York Times writes that she "quickly moved up to a series of management jobs",[25] where she worked with clients in insurance, banking, telecommunications, manufacturing and health care.[7][25] She spent the 1990s working in sales,[7] and by the late 1990s was helping clients such as Prudential Financial, Inc. with their internet features.[6] She joined IBM's Consulting Group in 1991.[25]

2000–2011: IBM management edit

While general manager of IBM's global services division,[7] in 2002 she championed[25] and helped negotiate the purchase of Monday, the consulting arm of the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers[7] for $3.5 billion.[25][13] The acquisition was the "largest in professional services history"[26] and launched IBM in the services business.[13] While senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services,[3][26] Rometty then received her "big break"[18] at IBM when she was given the task of integrating PricewaterhouseCoopers and its consultants with IBM.[6] In 2002, Time named her in its 2002 Global Business Influential list. From 2005 until 2009, she was the senior vice president of Global Business Services at IBM, and she also became senior vice president of Enterprise Business Services-IBM Global Services in July 2005.[5] Among other roles, she was general manager of IBM Global Services, Americas, as well as general manager of IBM's Global Insurance and Financial Services Sector.[5][26] She was also a managing partner at IBM Business Consulting Services, Inc. and general manager of Insurance Industry Group.[5] She received the Carl Sloane Award 2006 from the Association of Management Consulting Firms.[5][26]

Laid out by Rometty and other IBM executives,[7][3] in 2007 IBM announced[4] a five-year growth plan[13] concerning revenue growth and capital allocation.[4] Among other strategies, the "2015 Roadmap"[7][3] outlined moving IBM away from the hardware industry to focus on businesses such as software and services.[3] She became senior vice president and group executive for sales, marketing and strategy in 2009,[25][21] focusing on the company's "fast-growing analytics unit".[25] In January 2009, she was placed in charge of IBM's sales force,[6] as senior vice president of global sales and distribution until 2010.[5] During this time, she pushed the development of IBM's growth-markets unit, which had been created in 2008 to focus on emerging markets such as Brazil and Vietnam.[6] From 2010 until 2012 she was an IBM senior vice president, and from 2010 until 2012, she was IBM's Group Executive of Sales, Marketing & Strategy.[5] In 2011, CNN reported that she was "credited with spearheading IBM's growth strategy by getting the company into the cloud computing and analytics businesses. She was also at the helm of readying Watson, the Jeopardy! playing computer, for commercial use."[27]

2012–2020: Leadership of IBM edit

On October 25, 2011, IBM announced that she was to be the company's next president and CEO,[21][3] becoming the ninth chief executive in its history.[21][7] Her role as IBM's first female chief received note in the press,[1] with former CEO Sam Palmisano responding that her selection had "zero to do with progressive social policies".[25] She became president and CEO on January 1, 2012, also taking on the additional role of IBM chairman on October 1, 2012,[5] when Palmisano retired.[2] With plans to take IBM out of unprofitable business lines[20] and citing big data and analytics as IBM's "next big growth machine",[4] in 2014 she brokered a partnership for Apple to design applications for IBM's enterprise customers. Later that year, she announced that IBM would partner with SAP on cloud computing and with Twitter on data analytics and, in 2015, she also brokered a partnership with Box.[28] Rometty had IBM spend $8.5 billion acquiring around 30 companies between 2012 and 2015,[8] and by 2016 she had overseen the divestment of about $7 billion in commoditized assets such as chip manufacturing.[17]

In May 2017, Austin Business reported that Rometty had successfully moved IBM away from "shrinking businesses such as computers and operating system software, and into higher-growth areas like artificial intelligence."[29][8][30][9] On June 28, 2017, she was awarded the KPMG Inspire Greatness Award.[31] In January 2018, she announced IBM's first quarter of year-over-year revenue increase since 2012, with particular growth in areas such as data, blockchain, and the cloud.[32] By 2018, she stated that around half of IBM's 9,043 patents in 2017 were in AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, blockchain and quantum computing.[33]

On January 30, 2020, it was announced that Rometty would be stepping down as IBM's CEO to be replaced by Arvind Krishna. She remained executive chairman until December 31, 2020, when she was replaced by Arvind Krishna.[34]

Boards and committees edit

 
Rometty participates on a White House panel on workforce development in March 2019

A director at IBM since 2012, Rometty has also been involved in IBM organizations such as its Women in Technology Council, Women's Executive Council, and Women's Leadership Council. A former director at APQC,[5] she also served on the board of directors of AIG from 2006 until 2009.[35] She remains on the board of overseers and board of managers[5] for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,[26][36] and since 2013[26] she has been a council member at the Latin America Conservation Council.[37] Rometty serves on the Council on Foreign Relations and is also on the board of trustees of her alma mater Northwestern University,[5][26] where she was commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2015.[23] She was a member of the White House's Business Advisory Panel for much of 2017, before the panel dissolved itself that August.[38] In November 2017, she co-chaired WEF Davos.[39]

She also serves as the co-chair of the Aspen Institute’s Cyber Group, a member of the advisory board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and a member of the Singapore Economic Development Board International Advisory Council.[40] In May 2020, she was elected to the board of JPMorgan Chase.[41]

Industry reception edit

Rometty's tenure as IBM CEO has been marked by prestigious rankings, including by Bloomberg, who named her among the 50 Most Influential People in the World in 2012.[10] She was also named to the Time 100 list in 2012,[42] and in 2014 Rometty was featured in the PBS documentary The Boomer List.[43] Since 2005[5] she has been listed among Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business",[13][14] ranking in the top 10 since 2010.[31] After ranking No. 7 in 2011,[13] she ranked No. 1 from 2012[17][7] until 2014,[17][14] No. 3 in 2015,[8][17] No. 4 in 2016, and No. 7 in 2017.[44] She was named to Forbes magazine's "World's 100 Most Powerful People" in 2014,[45] and she also ranked No. 11 on the 2016 Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women.[46] The following year she ranked No. 10.[47] She was named the sixth most important person in tech by Time magazine in March 2018. [12]

Rometty's tenure as CEO has met with criticism as well, during her tenure, IBM revenue dropped from $104 billion in 2012 to $60 billion in 2020. [17] By 2016, she had been named among the worst CEOs by publications including the Motley Fool,[48] Forbes,[49] the Wall Street Journal,[50] and 24/7 Wallstreet.[16] She was criticized by investors[51] for 22 consecutive quarters of revenue decline between 2012 and the summer of 2017,[9][15] and by IBM employees for accepting pay bonuses during times of layoffs[29] and offshoring.[17][52][16]

In May 2019, Rometty received the Edison Achievement Award for her commitment to innovation throughout her career.[53]

Personal life edit

Virginia Nicosia married Mark Anthony Rometty,[54] a private-equity investor, in 1979.[4] With no children, they divide their time between New York and Bonita Springs, Florida.[54] She goes to Broadway shows and participates in scuba diving as a hobby.[7] In 2014, she became the third female member of the Augusta National Golf Club, following the lead of Condoleezza Rice.[55]

References edit

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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 Ginni RomettyBornVirginia Nicosia 1957 07 29 July 29 1957 age 66 Chicago Illinois U S EducationNorthwestern University BS SpouseMark Rometty 1979 present 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 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 1979 1990s GM and IBM technical positions 2 2 2000 2011 IBM management 2 3 2012 2020 Leadership of IBM 3 Boards and committees 4 Industry reception 5 Personal life 6 References 7 External linksEarly life and education editGinni Rometty was born on July 29 1957 in Chicago Illinois as Virginia Nicosia 18 19 3 Growing up outside Chicago she was the eldest of four children in an Italian American family 4 Her parents divorced and her father left when she was fifteen years old and her mother subsequently took on multiple jobs to support the family while Rometty looked after the household in the evenings 19 18 20 She began attending Northwestern University in Illinois in 1975 on a scholarship from General Motors where she interned between her junior and senior years 20 Rometty was also a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority eventually becoming its president 7 She graduated with high honors from the Robert R McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in 1979 19 5 receiving a bachelor s degree in computer science and electrical engineering 21 19 She has received honorary doctoral degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2014 22 and Northwestern University 2015 23 She also received an honorary degree from North Carolina State University 24 Career edit1979 1990s GM and IBM technical positions edit After graduation in 1979 Rometty went to work for General Motors Institute 21 in Flint 7 where she was responsible for application and systems development 5 In 1981 she joined IBM as a systems analyst 18 and systems engineer in Detroit 21 7 Initially working with clients in the insurance industry 6 she spent her first ten years at IBM in technical positions 18 The New York Times writes that she quickly moved up to a series of management jobs 25 where she worked with clients in insurance banking telecommunications manufacturing and health care 7 25 She spent the 1990s working in sales 7 and by the late 1990s was helping clients such as Prudential Financial Inc with their internet features 6 She joined IBM s Consulting Group in 1991 25 2000 2011 IBM management edit While general manager of IBM s global services division 7 in 2002 she championed 25 and helped negotiate the purchase of Monday the consulting arm of the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers 7 for 3 5 billion 25 13 The acquisition was the largest in professional services history 26 and launched IBM in the services business 13 While senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services 3 26 Rometty then received her big break 18 at IBM when she was given the task of integrating PricewaterhouseCoopers and its consultants with IBM 6 In 2002 Time named her in its 2002 Global Business Influential list From 2005 until 2009 she was the senior vice president of Global Business Services at IBM and she also became senior vice president of Enterprise Business Services IBM Global Services in July 2005 5 Among other roles she was general manager of IBM Global Services Americas as well as general manager of IBM s Global Insurance and Financial Services Sector 5 26 She was also a managing partner at IBM Business Consulting Services Inc and general manager of Insurance Industry Group 5 She received the Carl Sloane Award 2006 from the Association of Management Consulting Firms 5 26 Laid out by Rometty and other IBM executives 7 3 in 2007 IBM announced 4 a five year growth plan 13 concerning revenue growth and capital allocation 4 Among other strategies the 2015 Roadmap 7 3 outlined moving IBM away from the hardware industry to focus on businesses such as software and services 3 She became senior vice president and group executive for sales marketing and strategy in 2009 25 21 focusing on the company s fast growing analytics unit 25 In January 2009 she was placed in charge of IBM s sales force 6 as senior vice president of global sales and distribution until 2010 5 During this time she pushed the development of IBM s growth markets unit which had been created in 2008 to focus on emerging markets such as Brazil and Vietnam 6 From 2010 until 2012 she was an IBM senior vice president and from 2010 until 2012 she was IBM s Group Executive of Sales Marketing amp Strategy 5 In 2011 CNN reported that she was credited with spearheading IBM s growth strategy by getting the company into the cloud computing and analytics businesses She was also at the helm of readying Watson the Jeopardy playing computer for commercial use 27 2012 2020 Leadership of IBM edit On October 25 2011 IBM announced that she was to be the company s next president and CEO 21 3 becoming the ninth chief executive in its history 21 7 Her role as IBM s first female chief received note in the press 1 with former CEO Sam Palmisano responding that her selection had zero to do with progressive social policies 25 She became president and CEO on January 1 2012 also taking on the additional role of IBM chairman on October 1 2012 5 when Palmisano retired 2 With plans to take IBM out of unprofitable business lines 20 and citing big data and analytics as IBM s next big growth machine 4 in 2014 she brokered a partnership for Apple to design applications for IBM s enterprise customers Later that year she announced that IBM would partner with SAP on cloud computing and with Twitter on data analytics and in 2015 she also brokered a partnership with Box 28 Rometty had IBM spend 8 5 billion acquiring around 30 companies between 2012 and 2015 8 and by 2016 she had overseen the divestment of about 7 billion in commoditized assets such as chip manufacturing 17 In May 2017 Austin Business reported that Rometty had successfully moved IBM away from shrinking businesses such as computers and operating system software and into higher growth areas like artificial intelligence 29 8 30 9 On June 28 2017 she was awarded the KPMG Inspire Greatness Award 31 In January 2018 she announced IBM s first quarter of year over year revenue increase since 2012 with particular growth in areas such as data blockchain and the cloud 32 By 2018 she stated that around half of IBM s 9 043 patents in 2017 were in AI cloud computing cybersecurity blockchain and quantum computing 33 On January 30 2020 it was announced that Rometty would be stepping down as IBM s CEO to be replaced by Arvind Krishna She remained executive chairman until December 31 2020 when she was replaced by Arvind Krishna 34 Boards and committees edit nbsp Rometty participates on a White House panel on workforce development in March 2019 A director at IBM since 2012 Rometty has also been involved in IBM organizations such as its Women in Technology Council Women s Executive Council and Women s Leadership Council A former director at APQC 5 she also served on the board of directors of AIG from 2006 until 2009 35 She remains on the board of overseers and board of managers 5 for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 26 36 and since 2013 26 she has been a council member at the Latin America Conservation Council 37 Rometty serves on the Council on Foreign Relations and is also on the board of trustees of her alma mater Northwestern University 5 26 where she was commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2015 23 She was a member of the White House s Business Advisory Panel for much of 2017 before the panel dissolved itself that August 38 In November 2017 she co chaired WEF Davos 39 She also serves as the co chair of the Aspen Institute s Cyber Group a member of the advisory board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and a member of the Singapore Economic Development Board International Advisory Council 40 In May 2020 she was elected to the board of JPMorgan Chase 41 Industry reception editRometty s tenure as IBM CEO has been marked by prestigious rankings including by Bloomberg who named her among the 50 Most Influential People in the World in 2012 10 She was also named to the Time 100 list in 2012 42 and in 2014 Rometty was featured in the PBS documentary The Boomer List 43 Since 2005 5 she has been listed among Fortune s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business 13 14 ranking in the top 10 since 2010 31 After ranking No 7 in 2011 13 she ranked No 1 from 2012 17 7 until 2014 17 14 No 3 in 2015 8 17 No 4 in 2016 and No 7 in 2017 44 She was named to Forbes magazine s World s 100 Most Powerful People in 2014 45 and she also ranked No 11 on the 2016 Forbes list of The World s 100 Most Powerful Women 46 The following year she ranked No 10 47 She was named the sixth most important person in tech by Time magazine in March 2018 12 Rometty s tenure as CEO has met with criticism as well during her tenure IBM revenue dropped from 104 billion in 2012 to 60 billion in 2020 17 By 2016 she had been named among the worst CEOs by publications including the Motley Fool 48 Forbes 49 the Wall Street Journal 50 and 24 7 Wallstreet 16 She was criticized by investors 51 for 22 consecutive quarters of revenue decline between 2012 and the summer of 2017 9 15 and by IBM employees for accepting pay bonuses during times of layoffs 29 and offshoring 17 52 16 In May 2019 Rometty received the Edison Achievement Award for her commitment to innovation throughout her career 53 Personal life editVirginia Nicosia married Mark Anthony Rometty 54 a private equity investor in 1979 4 With no children they divide their time between New York and Bonita Springs Florida 54 She goes to Broadway shows and participates in scuba diving as a hobby 7 In 2014 she became the third female member of the Augusta National Golf Club following the lead of Condoleezza Rice 55 References edit a b IBM Names Rometty to Succeed Palmisano as First Female CEO Bloomberg BusinessWeek October 25 2011 Archived from the original on January 2 2013 Retrieved October 25 2011 a b IBM s Ginni Rometty Completes Her Ascent by Adding Chairman Role Bloomberg com Bloomberg L P September 26 2012 Retrieved September 26 2012 a b c d e f g Aluise Susan J May 10 2012 America s 10 Most Powerful Female CEOs InvestorPlace Retrieved July 10 2014 a b c d e f Ginni Rometty Reinventing Big Blue Barron s Leslie P Norton May 31 2014 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Virginia M Rometty Profile Bloomberg a b c d e f IBM s Rometty Kept on Rising Spencer E Ante And Joann S Lublin Wall Street Journal October 27 2011 a b c d e f g h i j k l m Hempel Jessi October 8 2012 IBM s Ginni Rometty looks ahead Fortune a b c d Bellstrom Kristen September 15 2015 Fortune s Most Powerful Women List Fortune a b c IBM grants CEO Ginni Rometty a record bonus after share surge Financial Review February 7 2017 a b 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets magazine in September 2012 Ginni Rometty Forbes a b The 20 Most Influential People in Tech Right Now Time May 8 2017 a b c d e f Ginni Rometty Fortune September 20 2012 Retrieved September 20 2012 a b c Ginni Rometty Fortune 2014 a b Danielle Wiener Bronner January 18 2018 IBM s sales grew for the first time in 5 years CNN a b c CEOs Who Have to Go in 2016 247wallst com Retrieved May 2 2017 a b c d e f g Fortune Magazine Gets a Raise Despite Tumbling Stock Price a b c d e Waters Richard October 28 2011 More than a big smile on Big Blue s face Financial Times Retrieved July 16 2014 a b c d NU appoints 5 new members to Board of Trustees Northwestern University June 25 2010 Archived from the original on June 29 2010 Retrieved October 26 2011 a b c Lunch with the FT Ginni Rometty Gillian Tett Financial Times February 6 2015 a b c d e f IBM Names Virginia Rometty as First Female CEO Wired October 25 2011 Retrieved October 26 2011 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Graduates 1 613 in 208th Commencement Ceremony Retrieved April 4 2015 a b IBM executive Northwestern alumna Virginia Rometty to speak at 2015 commencement March 5 2015 Retrieved April 4 2015 NC State Commencement news ncsu edu April 15 2019 Retrieved January 31 2020 a b c d e f g h I B M Names Virginia Rometty as New Chief Executive The New York Times October 25 2011 Retrieved October 26 2011 a b c d e f g Council Members Ginni Rometty Latin America Conservation Council 2018 IBM CEO Sam Palmisano to step down CNN October 25 2011 Retrieved October 25 2011 IBM Ginni Rometty sign yet another Silicon Valley partner Business Journals Caroline McMillan Portillo June 24 2015 a b Come into the office or quit IBM says Anthony Noto Austin Business Journal May 19 2017 IBM CEO Rometty Proposes Watson s Law AI In Everything Adrian Bridgewater Forbes March 20 2018 a b KPMG Honors Stem Pioneer Ginni Rometty for Inspiring Next Generation 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