Ginni Rometty
Former IBM chairman and CEO
Ginni Rometty is a business executive who led IBM as chairman, president and CEO, the first woman to do so. She is the author of Good Power.
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American Born 1957 in Chicago, United States
About Ginni Rometty
Ginni Rometty joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and went on to head global sales, marketing and strategy. She became president and CEO in January 2012, the first woman to lead the company, and retired from IBM at the end of 2020. In 2002 she helped negotiate IBM's purchase of the IT consulting business of PricewaterhouseCoopers. As CEO, she steered IBM towards analytics, cloud computing and cognitive computing. Today she serves on several boards and co-chairs OneTen, a coalition that aims to help one million Black Americans move into family-sustaining jobs by 2030. Her book in our catalog is Good Power.