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Thomas John Watson Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, diplomat, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. The son of IBM Corporation founder Thomas J. Watson, he was the second IBM president (1952–71), the 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America (1964–68), and the 16th United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–81).
IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems. It was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924 and soon became the leading manufacturer of punch-card tabulating systems.
All data in the table is taken from the Fortune Global 500 list of technology sector companies for 2023 [ 2 ] unless otherwise specified. As of 2023, Fortune lists Amazon (revenue of $513.98 billion), Jingdong ($155.53 billion), and Alibaba ($126.81 billion) in the retailing sector rather than the technology sector. [ 3 ]
Free cash flow rose by 61% over the same time span. A leaner, meaner IBM should continue to grow its cash profits over the next five years. And the stock is priced at just 14.7 times free cash ...
Ginni Rometty. Virginia " Ginni " 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 ...
Arvind Krishna (born November 23, 1962) [3] is an Indian-American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been CEO of IBM since April 2020 and chairman since January 2021. [4][5] Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, [6] and was promoted to senior vice president in 2015, managing ...
Website. www.gerstner.org. Louis Vincent Gerstner Jr. (born March 1, 1942) is an American businessman, best known for his tenure as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002, when he retired as CEO in March and chairman in December. He is largely credited with turning IBM's fortunes around. [1][2]
IBM logo. IBM has undergone a ... Net Integration Technologies Inc. ... IBM positioned this acquisition as "winning "an outsourcing contract" worth US$1.25B [159]