Ginni Rometty

Virginia Marie " Ginni " Rometty (born 1958 ) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer and business manager. Since the beginning of 2012, she is the CEO and President of IBM.

Life

Rometty was born the eldest of four children and grew up in a suburb of Chicago. She reached in 1979 at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University awarded a bachelor's degree in computer science and electrical engineering and was then first at the General Motors Institute operates. In 1981, she appeared as a systems engineer in Detroit join the company IBM. In 1991 she moved to the business consulting division of the Group ( IBM Consulting Group ), 2002, she organized as general manager of the business unit, IBM Global Business Services, the integration of at a price of around $ 3.9 billion acquired by IBM consulting division of PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Group.

2009 Rometty was Vice President and Member of the Executive Board, responsible for the sales, marketing and strategy. In autumn 2011 she was appointed with effect from 1 January 2012 for the first female CEO and President of IBM. In these positions, it is the successor of Samuel J. Palmisano, they replaced on October 1, 2012, as Chairman.

Forbes magazine put Rometty in 2012 was ranked 15th in its list of the most powerful women in the world, Fortune magazine she listed every year since 2004 as one of the fifty most powerful women in the business world ( most recently in 2011 ranked 7th ), Time magazine leads 2012 in the annual list of Time 100 most Influential People in the world.