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Ginni Rometty
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American business executive
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Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty, born in 1957 in Chicago, is an American entrepreneur, businessperson, and computer scientist. She holds a birth name of Virginia Marie Nicosia and has been employed by IBM and Kettering University. Her professional roles have included serving as vice president, chief executive officer, and président-directeur général.
Rometty is affiliated with IBM Corporation and is recognized in the Time 100 collection. Her notable works include the publication Good Power. She has received the Time 100 award and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Good Power
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- Virginia Marie Nicosia , ( 1957-07-29 ) July 29, 1957 (age 68) , Chicago, [Illinois , U.S.
- Education
- Northwestern University ( BS )
- Spouse
- Mark Rometty (1979–present)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Virginia
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Educated at
- Northwestern University
- Employer
- Kettering University
- Image
- Ginni Rometty at the Fortune MPW Summit in 2011.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1957-07-29
- birth name
- Virginia Marie Nicosia
- Commons category
- Ginni Rometty
- base salary
- 19300000
- affiliation string
- IBM Corporation
- affiliation
- IBM
- name in native language
- Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty
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Encyclopedic overview
Virginia Marie 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. 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.
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. As CEO, she focused IBM on analytics, cloud computing, and cognitive computing systems.
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