Less than three months out from the Masters, we’re even more curious than normal about the goings-on at Augusta National. Last week, we dived into some satellite images showing off the course like we’d never seen it before. This week, the intrigue has more to do with who might be wearing a green jacket come April.
Every year, IBM is one of the Masters’ largest sponsors, and over the decades, a membership invitation has traditionally been extended to the company’s CEO. It just so happens that on Thursday, IBM’s board of directors elected Arvind Krishna to replace Ginni Rometty, 62, who is retiring at the end of the year after almost four decades with the company.
Krishna, currently IBM’s senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software, is a highly-accomplished technologist and played a major role in IBM’s acquisition of software company Red Hat. The Indian-born 57-year-old has been with IBM since 1990 and has an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, as well as a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has Rometty’s endorsement.
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