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Indian Origin CEOs Who Are Ruling The World

According to recent studies, Indian-origin CEOs are currently leading some of the world’s most successful companies in a variety of sectors.

From technology to healthcare, these leaders have achieved remarkable success and are now considered among the most influential CEOs in the world.

There is a whole range of companies, starting from IBM, Cognizant, and Adobe to tech giants like Google and Microsoft, mobile mammoths like Nokia, and content kings like OnlyFans, where the CEOs are of Indian origin and are upping the game, no doubt.

So, without further ado, let’s take a closer look at the top Indian CEOs ruling the world in 2023.

Indian Origin CEO	Company	Year of Service
Sundar Pichai	Alphabet Inc. (Google)	2015 – Present
Satya Nadella	Microsoft Corporation	2014 – Present
Vivek Sankaran	Albertsons Companies	2019 – Present
Arvind Krishna	IBM	2020 – Present
Vasant Narasimhan	Novartis AG	2018 – Present
Sanjay Mehrotra	Micron Technology	2017 – Present
Laxman Narasimhan	Starbucks	2023 – Present
Revathi Advaithi	Flex Ltd.	2019 – Present
Neal Mohan	YouTube	2023 – Present
Shantanu Narayen	Adobe Inc.	2007 – Present
Niraj Shah	Wayfair	2002 – Present
George Kurian	NetApp	2015 – Present
Leena Nair	Chanel	2022 – Present
Ravi Kumar S	Cognizant	2023 – Present
Nikesh Arora	Palo Alto Networks	2018 – Present
Anjali Sud	Tubi	2023 – Present
Devika Bulchandani	Ogilvy	2022 – Present
Jayshree Ullal	Arista Networks	2008 – Present
Rangarajan Raghuram	VMWare	2021 – Present

Sundar Pichai
Satya Nadella
Vivek Sankaran
Arvind Krishna
Vasant Narasimhan
Sanjay Mehrotra
Laxman Narasimhan
Revathi Advaithi
Neal Mohan
Shantanu Narayen
Niraj Shah
George Kurian
Leena Nair
Ravi Kumar S
Nikesh Arora
Anjali Sud
Devika Bulchandani
Jayshree Ullal
Rangarajan Raghuram
Punit Renjen
Ivan Menezes
Amrapali ‘Ami’ Gan
Sanjay Jha
Rajeev Suri
Francisco D’Souza
Dinesh Paliwal
Ashok Vemuri
Ajaypal Singh Banga
Parag Agarwal

Sundar Pichai

Company	Google, Alphabet
Headquarters	Mountain View, California, United States
Revenue	$279.8 billion (Google), $282.83 billion (Alphabet)(2022)
Term of Office	Google (2015-Present), Alphabet (2019-Present)

Pichai Sundararajan, also known as Sundar Pichai, was born in Tamil Nadu, India. He earned a degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering and is a distinguished alumnus of that institution.

He holds an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.

Pichai began his career as a materials engineer and joined Google as a management executive in 2004 and became the CEO of Google in the year 2015. Pichai was also named as the CEO of Google parent, Alphabet in December 2019, when he replaced Larry Page.

Satya Nadella

Company	Microsoft
Headquarters	One Microsoft Way Redmond, Washington, United States
Revenue	$198.27 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2014-Present

Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella has a BE from the Manipal Institute of Technology, an MS from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Before joining Microsoft in 1992, he worked at Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff.

He became the CEO of Microsoft in 2014 succeeding Steve Ballmer. He also succeeded John W. Thompson and was named Chairman of Microsoft in 2021.

Vivek Sankaran

Company	Albertsons Cos Inc
Headquarters	Boise, Idaho, United States
Revenue	$76.768 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2019-Present

Vivek Sankaran is a well-known business executive in the United States. He is currently the President and CEO of Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the U.S., with more than 2,200 stores across 33 states.

Before joining Albertsons in 2019, Sankaran was the CEO of PepsiCo Foods North America, where he led the company’s Frito-Lay and Quaker Foods businesses in the U.S. and Canada. He has also held senior leadership roles at other major companies, including Procter & Gamble and McKinsey & Company.

Under his leadership, Albertsons has continued to expand its digital capabilities, introduce new products and services, and improve its supply chain and logistics operations.

Arvind Krishna

Company	IBM
Headquarters	Armonk, New York, United States
Revenue	$60.53 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2020-Present

The Indian CEO of IBM, who became the Chairman on January 1, 2021, Arvind Krishna was born in Dehradun, India.

He completed his schooling at St Joseph’s Academy, Dehradun, and the Stanes School, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. He then received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1985 and eventually got a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Krishna began his career at IBM as an engineer in IBM Research and was promoted to CEO in 2020. He is currently serving IBM as its CEO and Chairman.

Vasant Narasimhan

Company	Novartis AG
Headquarters	Basel, Switzerland
Revenue	$50.5 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2018-Present

Narasimhan was born in the United States in 1976 but spent much of his childhood in India. He attended the Syosset High School in New York before earning a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Chicago.

He went on to complete his MD from Harvard Medical School, as well as a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

After completing his education, Narasimhan worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company before joining Novartis in 2005. In 2014, he was appointed as the Global Head of Drug Development and Chief Medical Officer for Novartis.

In 2018, Narasimhan was named CEO of Novartis, succeeding Joseph Jimenez.

Sanjay Mehrotra

Company	Micron Technology
Headquarters	Boise, Idaho, United States
Revenue	$27.15 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2017-Present

Kanpur-born Sanjay Mehrotra started his college at BITS Pilani and then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley from where he obtained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering and in Computer Science.

He is the current CEO of Micron Technology, who assumed office when Mark Durcan retired in February 2017.

Previously, he co-founded SanDisk, where he served as the president and CEO until its acquisition by Western Digital in 2016.

Laxman Narasimhan

Company	Starbucks
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington, United States
Revenue	$30.4 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2022-Present

Laxman holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, University of Pune, an MA degree in German and International Studies from The Lauder Institute, and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.

He joined Starbucks under the title “interim CEO” in October 2022, and following the transition will succeed interim CEO Howard Schultz. Narasimhan officially assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks in March 2023.

Revathi Advaithi

Company	Flex (formerly Flextronics)
Headquarters	Singapore
Revenue	$29.72 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2019-Present

The CEO of Flex and an advocate of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), Revathi Advaithi is an Indian-American business executive, who was born in India.

Advaithi started her career as a shop floor supervisor in Eaton. In 2002, she joined Honeywell and returned to Eaton again, where she worked for 10 long years after becoming the COO. She eventually left Eaton and joined Flex as the company’s CEO in 2019. Revathi is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BS) and Thunderbird School of Global Management (MBA).

She is an independent director for the board of directors of Uber and Catalyst.org along with her present role. Besides, she also is a member of the MIT Presidential CEO Advisory Board. Revathi was also featured in Fortune’s list of the Most Powerful Women in 2019 and 2020.

Neal Mohan

Company	YouTube
Headquarters	San Bruno, California, United States
Revenue	$29.2 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2023-Present

Neal Mohan is an accomplished Indian-American executive with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

He began his career at Accenture, where he worked for approximately 1.5 years, before moving on to Microsoft as a manager in the company’s corporate strategy department.

In 2008, Mohan joined Google after the tech giant’s acquisition of DoubleClick. Over the years, he rose through the ranks and became YouTube’s chief product officer in 2015, overseeing the platform’s product and user experience.

Mohan’s impressive educational background and extensive tech industry experience played a significant role in his success. Notably, Neal Mohan, the Indian American business executive, became the CEO of YouTube in February 2023.

Shantanu Narayen

Company	Adobe Inc
Headquarters	San Jose, California, United States
Revenue	$17.6 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2007-Present

Born in Hyderabad, India, Shantanu Narayan started his career at Apple. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Osmania University, an MBA from the University of California, Berkley, and an MS from Bowling Green State University.

Narayen joined Adobe in 1998 and got promoted to CEO in December 2007, at the age of 45.

Narayen also represented India in sailing at an Asian Regatta and got his name among the world’s best CEOs by Barron’s Magazine in the year 2016.

Niraj Shah

Company	Wayfair
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Revenue	$12.369 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2002-Present

Shah earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell University and a master’s degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

After completing his education, Shah started his career as a consultant at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he worked for several years.

In 2002, he co-founded the online furniture retailer CSN Stores (which later became Wayfair) with his friend and business partner, Steve Conine.

George Kurian

Company	NetApp
Headquarters	San Jose, California, United States
Revenue	$6.549 billion
Term of Office	2015-Present

After serving as the executive vice president of product operations for two years at NetApp, George Kurian became the CEO and President of the company in June 2015.

Born in Kottayam district, Kerala, he pursued engineering at IIT-Madras, but left six months later to join Princeton University; he also holds an MBA degree from Stanford.

Leena Nair

Company	Chanel
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Revenue	$15.6 billion
Term of Office	2022-Present

Born on June 11, 1969, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, Leena Nair was an Electronics Engineering student at Walchand College of Engineering. After completing her graduation, Leena went to XLRI Jamshedpur from where she came out as a gold medallist.

Nair joined Anglo-Dutch company Unilever and was notably appointed as the Chief Human Resource Officer of the firm in 2016. She was recognized as the youngest, first female, and the first Asian ever to achieve the feat. Leena served many leadership positions in the same company before being appointed as the CHRO. Leena Nair was once again announced as the CEO of the French fashion brand, Chanel.

Ravi Kumar S

Company	Cognizant
Headquarters	Teaneck, New Jersey, United States
Revenue	$19.428 billion
Term of Office	2023-Present

Ravi Kumar S. took on the role of CEO at Cognizant in January 2023. His tenure as CEO followed a distinguished career where he served as the President of Infosys from January 2016 to October 2022, contributing to his deep understanding of the IT industry.

Kumar’s educational background is equally impressive, with an engineering degree from Shivaji University in Maharashtra and an MBA from Xavier Institute of Management in Orissa. His journey in the technology sector underscores the increasing presence of Indian-origin CEOs in global tech companies.

Nikesh Arora

Company	Palo Alto Networks
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, United States
Revenue	$5.818 billion
Term of Office	2018-Present

Nikesh Arora took the role of CEO and Chairman at Palo Alto Networks in June 2018. Prior to this, he worked with Google and SoftBank.

Born to an Indian Air Force Officer, Arora holds a Btech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT BHU, Varanasi.

Furthermore, Arora also holds a degree from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern University. Nikesh Arora has retained the CFA that he earned in 1999.

Anjali Sud

Company	Tubi
Headquarters	San Francisco, United States
Revenue	NA
Term of Office	2023-Present

Born in the USA, Detroit, Anjali Sud is an American businesswoman of Indian origin and is popularly known for being the CEO of Vimeo. Sud opted to study at the private school, Phillips Andover Academy at the age of 14.

She eventually received a B.Sc. degree in Finance and Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and later topped it off with an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Sud was appointed as a Vimeo CEO in July 2017. She previously served as a General Manager and the Head of Marketing of the company. Sud is also counted as a Board member of Dolby Laboratories. Furthermore, Sud is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She was also listed by Fortune in 2018 under its 40 Under 40 rising business leaders.

Anjali Sud stepped down from her position as Vimeo CEO and joined Tubi in September 2023, taking on the role of CEO at Fox Corp.’s free streaming service.

Devika Bulchandani

Company	Ogilvy
Headquarters	New York, New York, United States
Revenue	$0.04 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2022-Present

Devika Bulchandani was born and raised in India, and she completed her schooling there. She then moved to the United States to pursue higher education, and she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bulchandani began her career in the advertising industry in 1995, working at several leading agencies such as Ammirati Puris Lintas, J. Walter Thompson, and McCann Erickson. She joined Ogilvy in 1999 as an Account Director and worked her way up the ranks, eventually becoming the Chief Operating Officer of Ogilvy New York in 2017.

In March 2021, Bulchandani was appointed as the CEO of Ogilvy North America, making her the first woman of color to lead the agency.

Jayshree Ullal

Company	Arista Networks
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, United States
Revenue	$4.381 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2008-Present

Jayashree Ullal, the President, and CEO of Arista Networks was raised in New Delhi and attended San Francisco State University from where she graduated with a B.S. in Engineering.

She then went on to obtain a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University.

Rangarajan Raghuram

Company	VMware
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California, United States
Revenue	$13.16 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2021-Present

Rangarajan Raghuram currently serves as the CEO of VMware, who assumed his office on June 1, 2021.

Raghuram joined the company back in 2003 and has held multiple key leadership positions, thus being responsible for influencing the company’s strategies and bringing forth a technological revolution that VMware has seen.

Punit Renjen

Company	Deloitte
Headquarters	London, England
Revenue	$59 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2015-2022

Renjen was born and raised in India, where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Bombay. He later moved to the United States to pursue an MBA from Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management in Oregon.

After completing his MBA, Renjen joined Deloitte’s U.S. consulting practice in 1989. He quickly rose through the ranks, becoming a partner in the firm’s consulting practice in 1999.

In 2015, Renjen was appointed as the Global CEO of Deloitte, becoming the first person of Indian origin to lead one of the “Big Four” accounting firms.

On December 31, 2022, Punit retired as Deloitte Global CEO after having served in the role since June 2015. He now serves as Deloitte Global CEO Emeritus.

Ivan Menezes

Company	Diageo
Headquarters	London, England
Revenue	$20.56 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2013-2023

Ivan Menezes was born in Pune, India, in 1959. Menezes attended high school in Hong Kong and went on to study at the University of Pune in India, where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

He then moved to the United States to pursue a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Menezes started his career with Nestle in 1986, working in various roles across Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Menezes joined Diageo in 1997 as a strategy director and was subsequently appointed president and CEO of Diageo North America in 2004.

He was later promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer in 2012, before becoming CEO in 2013.

Ivan served as the CEO of Diageo from 2013 until his passing in June 2023. Later, in June 2023, Debra Crew was appointed as Diageo’s Chief Executive Officer.

Amrapali ‘Ami’ Gan

Company	OnlyFans
Headquarters	London, England
Revenue	$2.5 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2021-2023

Indian Origin CEO - Amrapali Gan (OnlyFans) — Indian Origin CEO – Amrapali Gan (OnlyFans)

Amrapali Gan has been named the new CEO of the London-based internet content subscription service company, OnlyFans on December 21, 2021, with the founder of the company Tim Stokely stepping down from the role. The NRI Indian CEO has already assumed office on the same date.

Amrapali Gan, or ‘Ami’ Gan, as she is nicknamed, has completed her early and higher education in California, US.

Gan has completed her Associate of Arts degree in Merchandise Marketing from FIDM. She then pursued a Bachelor of Arts in PR and Organisational Communications from California State University.

Furthermore, she also went on to earn her Certificate of Entrepreneurship from Harvard Business School Online. Ami had worked as a consultant with Arcade Agency for around 4 years before being appointed as the CEO of OnlyFans.

In July 2023, Ami Gan resigned as the CEO of OnlyFans after a two-year tenure, with Chief Strategy and Operations Officer Keily Blair stepping in as the new CEO. Ami Gan has started her own new venture, Hoxton Projects.

Sanjay Jha

Company	Global Foundries and Motorola
Headquarters	Malta, New York, United States
Revenue	$2.5 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2014-2018

Indian Origin CEO - Sanjay K Jha (GlobalFoundries and Motorola) — Indian Origin CEO – Sanjay K Jha (GlobalFoundries and Motorola)

He is the former chief executive officer (CEO) of GlobalFoundries and the former chairman and CEO of Motorola Mobility. Before that, he was the chief operating officer of Qualcomm.

Jha was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar, and holds a BS from the University of Liverpool and a PhD from the University of Strathclyde.

Rajeev Suri

Company	Nokia
Headquarters	Espoo, Finland
Revenue	$25.997 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2014-2020

Rajeev Suri is an Indian–Singaporean business executive and the former CEO of Nokia from New Delhi, India. Suri joined Nokia in 1995 and held various key positions before being the President and CEO in April 2014, which was after Nokia had repurchased full control of the NSN and sold its phone division to Microsoft Mobile.

Suri holds a B-Tech from the Manipal Institute of Technology. After he left his office at Nokia, Suri in 2020 giving way to its new CEO, Pekka Lundmark, Suri joined Inmarsat, where he joined as a CEO effective from March 1, 2021, onwards.

Francisco D’Souza

Company	Cognizant
Headquarters	Teaneck, New Jersey, United States
Revenue	$19.428 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2007-2019

Francisco D’Souza is among the youngest CEOs in the software services sector and a member of the company’s board of directors. D’Souza joined Cognizant as a co-founder in 1994 and went on to become its CEO in 2007.

The son of an Indian, D’Souza was born in Kenya and is distinguished as the former CEO and Vice Chairman of Cognizant. He holds a BBA from the University of East Asia, Macau, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Brian Humphries succeeded Francisco D’Souza as Cognizant’s CEO in April 2019, and later in January 2023, Ravi Kumar S was appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Cognizant.

Dinesh Paliwal

Company	Harman International
Headquarters	Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Revenue	$2.7 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2007-2020

Born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, Paliwal holds a BE and an MS degree from IIT Roorkee. He also obtained an MBA from Miami University.

Paliwal is known as the former President and CEO of Harman International, an independent subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, who stepped down from both of the positions and is currently appointed among the Board of Directors of the company.

Before joining Harman, he spent 22 years with ABB Group, where he held the dual role of President of ABB Group with responsibility for the company’s global P&L, and Chairman/CEO – ABB North America.

Ashok Vemuri

Company	Conduent Inc. of Xerox Corporation
Headquarters	Florham Park, New Jersey, United States
Revenue	$3.85 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2016-2019

New Delhi-born Ashok Vemuri is one among the Board of Directors for Financial Policy and Public Responsibilities at Kroger and was the former Chief Executive Officer of IGATE and Conduent.

Xerox, the 110-year-old document technology company that over the years came to symbolize everything associated with photocopying, named former iGate-appointed CEO Ashok Vemuri as the new CEO of its back-office outsourcing company, Conduent.

Vemuri was also appointed as the Executive Vice President and CEO of Xerox Business Services LLC.

Ajaypal Singh Banga

Company	Mastercard
Headquarters	Purchase, Harrison, New York, United States
Revenue	$22.23 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2010-2020

Beginning his business career with Nestlé in 1981, Pune-born Ajaypal Singh Banga was appointed as the President and CEO of Mastercard back in July 2010 and retained his office till December 31, 2020, after which he stepped down giving way to Michael Miebach.

He completed his primary education at the Hyderabad Public School in Begumpet and he went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University followed by a PGP in Management from the IIM Ahmedabad.

Banga was nominated by the Biden administration in February 2023 and elected as the President of the World Bank on May 3, 2023.

Parag Agarwal

Company	Twitter
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Revenue	$1.17 billion (2022)
Term of Office	2021-2022

Indian Origin CEO - Parag Agrawal (Twitter) — Indian Origin CEO – Parag Agrawal (Twitter)

Born in Ajmer, Rajasthan on May 21, 1984, Parag Agrawal was schooled at Atomic Energy Central School No.4., where he studied with the renowned singer Shreya Ghoshal. Agrawal sat for the Joint Entrance Exam, where he was placed 77th, thereby seizing a chance to be admitted at the IIT Bombay.

He completed his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the same institute in 2005. Parag then decided to pursue a PhD in computer science from Stanford University, US.

He was the CEO of Twitter, Inc. from November 2021 to October 2022. Agrawal was promoted to the post of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in October 2017, when he replaced Adam Massinger. This was the last designation that he served before being named as the Chief Executive Officer of the company on November 29, 2021.

Conclusion

CEOs are integral to a company. He/she, when appointed as the CEO of a particular company, manages and monitors the day-to-day operations of the firm, and also stands responsible for strategic planning and decision-making. The CEO is the person who determines the direction of a business and is thus, a respectable as well as a valuable asset of the company.

Therefore, it feels exceptionally good to be an Indian when you get to hear that the CEOs of such big companies that are shaping the modern world are Indian in origin. Hope you find this list of Indian-origin CEOs at the top companies globally useful and informative!

FAQs

Who is the highest paid CEO of India?

Mukesh Ambani, the CEO of Reliance Industries is the highest paid CEO of India.

Who are the top 10 CEO in world?

Top 10 CEO in world are:

Elon Musk
Satya Nadella
Mark Zuckerberg
Andy Jassy
Tim Cook
Jeff Bezos
Jack Dorsey
Arvind Krishna
Warren Buffett
Jamie Dimon

Who are the Indian Origin CEOs leading the world?

Some of the top Indian origin CEOs leading the world are:

Sundar Pichai
Satya Nadella
Parag Agrawal
Leena Nair
Amrapali ‘Ami’ Gan
Shantanu Narayen
Sanjay Mehrotra
Sanjay Jha
Rajeev Suri
George Kurian
Revathi Advaithi
Francisco D’Souza
Dinesh Paliwal
Ashok Vemuri
Nikesh Arora
Anjali Sud
Ajaypal Singh Banga
Arvind Krishna
Jayshree Ullal
Rangarajan Raghuram

Who are the top CEOs in India?

Some of the Top CEOs in India are:

Mukesh Ambani
Arvind Krishna
Gopal Vittal
S N Subrahmanyam
C P Gurnani
Pawan Munjal
Kalanithi Maran
Indra Nooyi
Salil Parikh
Savitri Jindal

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Students assume getting a four-year degree and taking on the thousands of student loan debt that comes along with it – is the only way to get your foot in the door at top companies like Apple, Google, and Netflix. International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology and consulting company that provides hardware, software, cloud-based services and cognitive computing.

IBM along with Google, Apple and 11 other companies no longer require employees to have a college degree. In 2017, IBM’s vice president of talent Joanna Daley told in an interview that about 15 percent of her company’s U.S. hires don’t have a four-year degree. She said that instead of looking exclusively at candidates who went to college, IBM now looks at candidates who have hands-on experience via a coding boot camp or an industry-related vocational class.

IBM – Company Highlights

Startup Name	IBM
Headquarters	Armonk, New York, U.S.
Sector	Public
Industry	Cloud computing, Artificial intelligence, Computer hardware, Computer software
Founders	Charles Ranlett Flint, Thomas Watson Sr
Founded	June 16, 1911
CEO	Arvind Krishna (2020-Present)
Areas served	177 countries
Website	www.ibm.com

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IBM – About and How it works?

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology and consulting company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with more than 350,000 employees serving clients in 177 countries. IBM is a global technology company that provides hardware, software, cloud-based services and cognitive computing. Founded in 1911 following the merger of four companies in New York State by Charles Ranlett Flint, it was originally called Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.

IBM has been present in India since 1951. Since inception, IBM India has expanded its operations with regional headquarters in Bangalore and offices across 20 cities. IBM India has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology Industry.

As a leading cognitive solutions and cloud platform company, innovation is at the core of the IBM company strategy. This is reflected in the end-to-end solutions delivered to clients, which span from software and systems hardware to a broad range of infrastructure, cognitive, cloud and consulting services. IBM helps clients solve complex business and technical issues by delivering deep business process and industry expertise. This is enhanced with advanced analytics, research capabilities, comprehensive IT infrastructure knowledge and the proven ability to implement enterprise solutions to deliver bottom line value to businesses and governments worldwide.

IBM – Logo and Meaning

IBM Logo

Current IBM logo was designed in 1972 by an iconic American graphic designer Paul Rand. He understood that a distinguishing mark was essential to a company’s success. Distinctive company logotype is the principal mean of distinguishing one product from that of another he observed.

IBM – Founders and Team

Charles Flint and Thomas Watson Sr. are believed to be the founders of IBM.

Charles Flint (Left) & Thomas Watson Sr.(Right) | Co-Founders, IBM

“It is the policy of this company never to be satisfied with what we have and always to anticipate the demands of the future.”

This quote captures the vision of Thomas Watson Sr. who forged the disparate pieces of C-T-R into a strong, unified company that became International Business Machines.

“I had the leisure to turn to a field which has since interested me more than any other one—that is, the consolidation of corporations, the forming of what used to be known as ‘trusts.’ I have been called ‘the father of trusts,’ although sometimes I think I have been more nearly in the relation of godfather ,” said Charles R. Flint.

The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, the precursor to IBM, was founded on June 16, 1911. At its beginning, it was a merger of three manufacturing businesses, a product of the times orchestrated by the financier, Charles Flint. From these humble beginnings sprang the company that Thomas Watson Sr. molded into a global force in technology, management and culture.

Arvind Krishna (an IIT Kanpur graduate) is Chief Executive Officer of IBM.

Arvind Krishna | CEO, IBM

Arvind Krishna (born 1962) is an Indian-American business executive. He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 predeceasing Ginni Rometty . Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was promoted to senior vice president in 2015. As a business leader and technologist, he has led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain. He has also played a significant role in the development of innovative IBM products and solutions based on these emerging technologies. Over his 30-year career at IBM, Arvind led a series of bold transformations and delivered proven business results. He most recently drove the successful $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat – the largest software acquisition – that has defined the hybrid cloud market.

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IBM – History

In 1911, the company was incorporated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) and manufactured a variety of machinery including industrial time recorders, commercial scales, tabulators, and punch cards.

C-T-R in Thomas Watson’s era.

Three years later, Thomas J. Watson, Sr. joined the company as general manager and set the company on course to become IBM as it’s known today. Soon after being named president, Watson oversaw the shift of the company’s primary product offering to large-scale business computing equipment and transitioned the name to IBM. To catalyze technological innovation, IBM opened the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University in 1945.

IBM launched 701, the company’s first computer, in 1952 and spent the next two decades dominating the field of mainframe and minicomputers. These machines (specifically the System/360 and 370 families) were capable of unprecedented levels of computing power, so they were widely used by businesses, universities, laboratories, and government offices alike. The dawn of personal computers (PCs) in the 1980s and 90s, however, created dramatic financial losses for IBM. As vendors like Compaq, Dell, and HP took over the PC and PC compatible market, IBM shifted toward integrated business solutions, consulting, and research.

IBM – Investments

Stock Symbol: NYSE:IBM
IPO Date: Jan 16, 2015

IBM has made 36 investments. Their most recent investment was on May 21, 2020.

Date	Stage	Amount	Organization Name
May 21, 2020	Corporate Round	–	we.trade
Mar 9, 2020	Series D	$25M	Lightbend
Jan 30, 2020	Funding Round	$20M	Cambridge Quantum Computing
Dec 11, 2019	Series C	$35M	Digital Asset
Nov 3, 2019	Grant	$120K	Finclude
May 8, 2019	Grant	CA$50K	Syngli
Sep 20, 2018	Grant	CA$50K	Syngli
Jul 20, 2018	Grant	$140K	Borza
May 1, 2018	Grant	–	Hafnium Labs
Feb 14, 2018	Grant	$120K	Datawifi

IBM – Revenue

IBM revenue for the quarter ending September 30, 2020 was $17.560B, a 2.6% decline year-over-year.
IBM revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2020 was $75.030B, a 2.72% decline year-over-year.

Year	Annual Revenue	Percentage change
2019	$77.147B	-3.07%
2018	$79.591B,	+0.57%
2017	$79.139B	-0.98%

Microsoft Vs. Apple Business Model

Microsoft and Apple are the two largest companies in the world. The business model of Apple is based on customer-centric devices and innovation. Microsoft’s business spanned across Windows, Office products, Gaming (Xbox), Hardware, Web search engine (Bing), Cloud, LinkedIn, etc.

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IBM – Business Model

IBM is dedicated to innovate and develop in the fields of mainframe, nanotechnology, personal computers to digital data management, virtualization and cloud services. The IBM business model is based around providing software that allows large corporations to connect their disparate software systems and improve their IT performance.

So, five different business segments help IBM to channelize its business and they are-

Global Technology Services (GTS) – Most of the amazing businesses which are pretty large in the number have to make sure that there are so many different financial services that are present in the company along with some other industries such as the retail, telecommunication, healthcare, and some other things as well. Also, the business model of IBM has a pretty robust and amazing IT infrastructure that would be able to serve the customers to provide some results. The IBM Company is also using such services such as strategic outsourcing, integrated technology, support, Cloud, and other services as well.
Global Business Services (GBS) – There are some amazing services which are provided in the GBS and this is something that can be considered as a pretty great advantage for sure.

A) Consulting: Expertise on business strategy, Technology, Finance, marketing, operation, supply chain, software, systems hardware, global financing.

B) Application Management Services: It offers application management, support services for packaged software, maintenance, custom and legacy application.

Software Services

The company of IBM is also offering some of the services to the people who need some software assistance as well. There are some operating systems which are provided to the people along with middleware in the best way. The Middleware services that are provided are software layers which will be able to connect all the systems that are provided in the company. There is a standards software platform for the company. These are some services which are provided to the people in the business model of IBM who might need it in the first place to have their solutions for the software related problems.

Systems Hardware Services

To be honest, there are some hardware services that are provided in the business model of IBM as well and these are the services which are going to help people in the hardware front in the best way.

These are the hardware services which include the amazing system servers along with the storage solutions as well. The business model of IBM also provides some of the best installation services for the people.

In such services, the people will be provided some help when it comes to the installation of the different hardware products that have a pretty complicated nature.

These services make such processes pretty simpler for the people and hence are some of the best options for the generation of revenue for the company. The business model of IBM provides much importance to this service.

Global Financing

When it comes to the financing options in the best way, there is simply not a single speck of doubt about the fact that the businesses model of IBM is simply the best option for sure.

That is because the lease, installment payment options, as well as the loan financing options are the ones that are handled in this front and that too in the best way for sure.

That is one of the most important reasons why people tend to have so much faith in the business model of IBM. Three key services offered by this segment are client financing, commercial financing re-manufacturing and re-marketing.

IBM – Competitors

IT Services: IBM’s main competitors are Accenture, Hewlett Packard, and Wipro Technologies.
Infrastructure Software: IBM’s biggest competitors are Microsoft, Oracle, and Amazon.
Hardware: IBM mainly competes against Oracle, Dell, and HP.
Global Financing: IBM competes with numerous small players.

IBM – Hires Based on Skills and not College-Degree

As with so many other companies competing for tech talent in a shrinking labor market, IBM is looking for hands-on skill rather than credentials. As more workers continue to pursue self-guided learning, the skills-based model will grow. Boot camp-style immersion programs are gaining momentum across the country.

Having a four-year college degree is generally regarded as a necessity to score a job in tech. But as the number of tech jobs has climbed, far outpacing the number of applicants, companies like IBM have turned to talent with non-traditional educational backgrounds. With this drastic shortage of tech workers, the company is now focusing on skills-based hiring rather than credentials to fill these roles. Many giant companies like GitHub follows the same procedure. In a USA Today column, the company’s ex CEO Ginni Rometty explained that not all tech jobs require a college degree. As industries transform, she says, “jobs are being created that demand new skills – which in turn requires new approaches to education, training and recruiting.” These “new collar jobs,” said Rometty, were becoming harder to fill.

Ginni Rometty, ex-CEO of IBM

In the U.S. alone, there are more than 500,000 open jobs in tech- related sectors, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. A recent study by Code.org reports that as many as 1 million programming jobs will be unfilled by 2022.

“About 15 percent of the people we hire in the U.S. don’t have four-year degrees. There’s an opportunity to broaden the candidates to fill the skills gap,” said IBM’s vice president of talent Joanna Daly.

In June 2017, the company announced that it would be partnering with community colleges across the U.S. to better prepare more Americans for “new collar career opportunities.”

For those who don’t have a bachelor’s degree, Daly says she likes to see hands-on experience and that you’ve enrolled in vocational classes that pertain to the industry you’re applying to.

“I like candidates who have taken the initiative to learn these skills,” she says. For example, she advises that you take a coding boot camp if you want to work online.

“Know about the area that you’re applying for,and have a point of view about what we’re doing,” says the HR executive.

HCL Enterprises: A Case Study

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IBM – Growth

IBM’s growth has returned in virtually all segments of the company. In 1995, IBM’s sales reached almost $72 billion, up more than 12 percent from 1994. For this, Gerstner(ex-CEO) and his team deserve great credit. Profitability was also up by 42 percent. And shareholders were richly rewarded: earnings per share rose by 44 percent. Even the mainframe market, the heart of IBM in the 1970s and 1980s that critics pronounced dead in the early 1990s, has recovered, with new mainframe computers bringing in substantial profit margins.

IBM – Future Plans

Arvind Krishna, the chief executive of IBM said that their goal is accelerating their future and growth strategy.

He further adds, ” we are focused on accelerating our growth strategy and seizing the $1 trillion hybrid cloud opportunity. As we work toward this goal, two things are becoming increasingly clear. First, we’re seeing a tremendous increase in client demand for our capabilities and expertise. Second, we’re noticing that client buying needs for application and infrastructure services are diverging. Because of this, we have decided that the managed infrastructure services business of our GTS segment will become an independent company, which we’re initially referring to as “NewCo.” We expect the new company to be created sometime toward the end of 2021. IBM will sharpen its focus on its open hybrid cloud platform and AI capabilities. And the new company will focus on delivering managed infrastructure services.”

He also said that apart from what will change, it is also important that the company emphasizes on what will not change. Both companies are going to share the same DNA. Namely, a deep understanding of how to apply the power of computing, how to solve complex problems, and how to work with customers to develop solutions that make sense in the context of their industries.

NewCo already serves more than 4,600 clients—including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100. Its global reach will span 115 countries and include about 90,000 of IBM teammates. NewCo will also have greater freedom to forge partnerships and alliances in the managed infrastructure services space. This will open new avenues for growth. Basically, for both companies, client success will remain their north star.

IBM – FAQ’s

What is IBM famous for?

IBM, in full International Business Machines Corporation, a leading American computer manufacturer, with a major share of the market both in the United States and abroad. Its headquarters are in Armonk, New York.

Is IBM an IT company?

IBM is a multinational technology company from the United States that makes and sells software, computer hardware, infrastructure services, and consulting services. IBM is one of the biggest Information Technology companies in the world.

What is the old name of IBM?

A merger of three 19th-century companies—the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company of America—creates the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) on June 16, 1911. CTR is the precursor to IBM.

Did IBM make the first computer?

The first IBM PC, formally known as the IBM Model 5150, was based on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor and used Microsoft´s MS-DOS operating system. The IBM PC revolutionized business computing by becoming the first PC to gain widespread adoption by industry.

What does IBM sell today?

IBM sells IT services, cloud and cognitive offerings, and enterprise systems and software. The Global Technology Services segment is IBM’s biggest revenue source, but Cloud & Cognitive Software is the most profitable. IBM strives to be a leading provider in the hybrid cloud and AI.

Who is the new CEO of IBM?

IBM’s board of directors appointed CEO Arvind Krishna as its chairman, taking over from executive chairman and former chief executive Ginni Rometty.

IBM – Conclusion

Although IBM never fully recovered from its business losses, it is still a leader in the IT industry today. It’s home to the largest industrial research facilities in the world, so it makes sense that IBM is still a powerhouse of large-scale business hardware offerings—specifically mainframe computers, servers, and infrastructure. IBM is also competitive in hosting and consulting services, including Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Managed Security Services (MSS), and IoT consulting.

April 25, 2021