IBM executive team & leadership
IBM's executive team includes 18 tracked leaders as of July 2026, led by Arvind Krishna (Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.
Leadership overview
IBM has 18 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, financial strategy, a key function, revenue and commercial operations (as of July 2026). IBM is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and one of the world's largest providers of enterprise software, hybrid cloud infrastructure and technology consulting. It was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, renamed International Business Machines in 1924, trades on the New York Stock Exchange as IBM and operates in more than 175 countries. Its portfolio spans the watsonx AI platform, Red Hat OpenShift and Enterprise Linux, the Confluent data streaming platform acquired in March 2026, IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes, IBM Power and Storage systems, and IBM Consulting. Full-year 2025 revenue reached $67.5 billion, up 7.6 percent year over year, with software at $30.0 billion, consulting at $21.1 billion and infrastructure at $15.7 billion.
Org chart
Employees by management level
EstimatedLeadership team
| Name | Title | Location | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arvind Krishna | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer | View → | |
| James J. Kavanaugh | Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations and Chief Financial Officer | View → | |
| Gary D. Cohn | Vice Chairman | View → | |
| Robert D. Thomas | Senior Vice President, IBM Software and Chief Commercial Officer | View → | |
| Mohamad Ali | Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting | View → | |
| Matt Hicks | Chief Executive Officer, Red Hat | View → | |
| Ric Lewis | Senior Vice President, IBM Infrastructure | View → | |
| Dinesh Nirmal | Senior Vice President, Products, Software | View → | |
| Ana Paula Assis | Senior Vice President, Chair and General Manager, IBM EMEA and Growth Markets | View → | |
| Jonathan H. Adashek | Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications | View → | |
| Nickle J. LaMoreaux | Chief Human Resources Officer | View → | |
| Anne E. Robinson | Chief Legal Officer | View → | |
| Alex Stern | Senior Vice President, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions | View → | |
| Joanne Wright | Senior Vice President, Transformation and Operations | View → | |
| Andy Baldwin | Senior Vice President, Consulting Offerings and Growth | View → | |
| Neil Dhar | Senior Vice President, Americas Consulting | View → | |
| Kareem Yusuf | Senior Vice President, Ecosystem, Strategic Partners and Initiatives | View → | |
| Jay M. Gambetta | Director of IBM Research | View → |
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Leadership roles at IBM
Arvind Krishna · full profile →
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Arvind Krishna is chairman, president and chief executive officer of IBM, a role he has held since April 2020, having become chairman in January 2021. Over a 30-year career at IBM he built and expanded new markets in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing and blockchain, and drove the $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat that defined the company's hybrid cloud strategy. He previously ran Cloud and Cognitive Software, where he pioneered the hybrid cloud business and reshaped IBM's software and services portfolio, and headed IBM Research. He founded IBM's security software business, helped create the first commercial wireless system, and sits on the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Northrop Grumman.
James J. Kavanaugh · full profile →
Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations and Chief Financial Officer
James J. Kavanaugh is IBM's chief financial officer and senior vice president of finance and operations, aligning strategic vision, fiduciary responsibility and portfolio optimization with the operations that run a global enterprise. He is a key architect of IBM's AI, hybrid cloud and quantum strategy and of the integrated value thesis that ties software, infrastructure, consulting and research together, and he helped orchestrate the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition. He also serves on the board of directors of T-Mobile US.
Gary D. Cohn · full profile →
Vice Chairman
Gary D. Cohn is vice chairman of IBM, working with the executive leadership team on business development, public advocacy and client relationship management. He served as assistant to the president for economic policy and director of the U.S. National Economic Council from 2017 to 2018, where he managed the administration's economic policy agenda. Before the White House he was president and chief operating officer of The Goldman Sachs Group from 2006 to 2016, after joining the firm in 1990 and holding roles including global co-head of the equities and fixed income, currency and commodities division.
Robert D. Thomas · full profile →
Senior Vice President, IBM Software and Chief Commercial Officer
Rob Thomas is senior vice president of IBM Software and chief commercial officer, leading the software business across product management, design, development and business development, with global responsibility for IBM revenue and profit including worldwide sales, strategic partnerships and the ecosystem. In more than 20 years at IBM he has worked in consulting, microelectronics and software, including two years leading teams in Tokyo, and drove the company's move from databases to broader analytics, open source and artificial intelligence. He is a published author on enterprise AI and writes the newsletter The Mentor.
Mohamad Ali · full profile →
Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting
Mohamad Ali leads IBM Consulting, the company's global professional services unit operating in 150 countries, solving complex client problems with technology assets and AI from IBM and its partner ecosystem. He was most recently chief executive officer of IDG and, before that, CEO of Carbonite, where he grew revenue four-fold in four years. As chief strategy officer at Hewlett Packard he managed more than ten billion dollars of organic cost reductions and led the process to split HP into two companies. Earlier at IBM he acquired and integrated the companies behind its multi-billion dollar analytics software business.
Matt Hicks · full profile →
Chief Executive Officer, Red Hat
Matt Hicks is president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, the enterprise open source subsidiary of IBM, a role he has held since 2022. With 25 years in enterprise technology and 19 at Red Hat, he helped take the company from a Linux vendor to a multi-billion dollar leader in open source infrastructure, previously serving as executive vice president of products and technologies. An early advocate for containers, he was a founding engineer on the OpenShift team, and he has since deepened Red Hat's AI investment with OpenShift AI, Red Hat Inference Server and the acquisition of Neural Magic behind the vLLM project.
Ric Lewis · full profile →
Senior Vice President, IBM Infrastructure
Ric Lewis is senior vice president of IBM Infrastructure, with global responsibility for IBM Z systems, IBM Power servers, IBM Storage and its software defined offerings, IBM Cloud, and infrastructure support through Technology Lifecycle Services. He also leads the company-wide IBM Supply Chain mission. He joined IBM in 2021 and aligned the Systems, TLS and Cloud brands under a single Infrastructure banner, streamlining how the organization defines, designs, delivers and supports products. He previously spent 32 years at Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where his teams created the composable infrastructure category.
Dinesh Nirmal · full profile →
Senior Vice President, Products, Software
Dinesh Nirmal leads product development, product management and design across IBM's software portfolio, and owns the software strategy and technology roadmap behind new products. He is known for applying deep expertise in AI, intelligent automation, machine learning, data science and AI governance to client data and AI transformations. He has spent more than 25 years at IBM and was previously general manager for Data, AI and Automation, where he ran business strategy, technology development, operations, sales and marketing. Under his leadership IBM strengthened its hybrid cloud and AI capabilities through acquisitions including databand.ai, Turbonomic, Instana, WDG Automation and myInvenio.
Ana Paula Assis · full profile →
Senior Vice President, Chair and General Manager, IBM EMEA and Growth Markets
Ana Paula Assis is senior vice president and chair for IBM Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, overseeing business operations across more than 170 countries and setting strategic direction for IBM's hybrid cloud, AI and industry solutions in those markets. Across her IBM career she has held leadership roles in Latin America, the United States and China, spanning multiple business units and technology domains, and is known for transforming large organizations and accelerating digital reinvention. As regional chair she leads programs on responsible AI adoption, sustainable innovation and skills development at scale.
Jonathan H. Adashek · full profile →
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Jonathan H. Adashek is senior vice president of marketing and communications at IBM, leading a global organization spanning brand and communications, public affairs, business development, corporate social responsibility and IBM's sports and entertainment partnerships. He joined IBM in 2020 as chief communications officer and took on marketing in 2022, unifying the two disciplines under one strategy and brand platform and rebuilding marketing as an AI-enabled function. He previously served as alliance global vice president of communications at the Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance in Paris, chief communications officer at Nissan Motor in Yokohama, and general manager of communications strategy at Microsoft.
Nickle J. LaMoreaux · full profile →
Chief Human Resources Officer
Nickle J. LaMoreaux is chief human resources officer of IBM, leading the global people strategy and an HR organization supporting IBMers across 175 countries. She is driving a talent agenda built on AI, reskilling and upskilling, and is redesigning the employee experience around AI-infused tools. Her IBM career spans more than 25 years, beginning as an intern and running through leadership roles in services, software and emerging markets, with assignments in the United States and China. She led the separation of IBM's managed infrastructure services business and the people side of the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition, and chairs the Center for Workplace AI at the CHRO Association.
Anne E. Robinson · full profile →
Chief Legal Officer
Anne E. Robinson is senior vice president and chief legal officer of IBM. She was previously general counsel of Vanguard and secretary of the Vanguard funds, and managing director of its Office of the General Counsel, where she led global public policy, legal, compliance and investment stewardship. She joined Vanguard in 2016 from Citigroup, where she was managing director and general counsel for the global cards and consumer services business, and earlier spent a decade at American Express in senior legal roles. She serves as an independent non-executive director of National Grid plc and on the boards of MCCA and Children's Rights.
Alex Stern · full profile →
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions
Alex Stern runs strategy, mergers and acquisitions, ventures and investor relations at IBM, overseeing corporate strategy, leading strategic transactions, supporting innovation through venture investments and shaping the financial narrative for the investment community. Since joining in January 2023 he has been central to IBM's portfolio evolution. He previously served as president of Lazard, where over nearly three decades he was also chief executive of the financial advisory business, chief operating officer and global head of strategy.
Joanne Wright · full profile →
Senior Vice President, Transformation and Operations
Joanne Wright drives IBM's enterprise transformation as the company's Client Zero programme, delivering $4.5 billion in savings while proving internally how AI and hybrid cloud lift productivity at global scale. She leads operations, procurement, the CIO organization, the Chief Data and Analytics Office and Global Real Estate, working from three principles: eliminating operational complexity, simplifying end-to-end workflows and automating manual tasks with AI embedded throughout. Her teams have saved an estimated 22 million hours since 2023 by deploying watsonx AI and automation tools. She founded IBM's Women's Business Resource Group and heads the Women at IBM Community.
Andy Baldwin · full profile →
Senior Vice President, Consulting Offerings and Growth
Andy Baldwin is senior vice president of offerings and growth for IBM Consulting, leading the asset-based consulting transformation, the AI-enabled offering portfolio and the go-to-market engine. He also chairs the IBM United Kingdom Board. He brings over 25 years of consulting experience across insurance, banking and wealth, advising clients on technology, transformation and regulatory programmes, and was an approved Skilled Person for the Bank of England. He previously spent more than two decades at EY, most recently as global managing partner running day-to-day operations and strategy across 154 countries, after serving as CEO of Europe, Middle East, India and Africa.
Neil Dhar · full profile →
Senior Vice President, Americas Consulting
Neil Dhar is senior vice president of the Americas for IBM Consulting, leading the consulting business across the United States, Canada and Latin America and aligning market execution with global strategy. He joined IBM in 2024 after three decades at PwC, where he served as vice chairman and co-chief executive of consulting, vice chairman and chief client officer, head of financial services and head of M&A for capital markets, sitting on the firm's executive management committee. He is a frequent commentator on market trends and business transformation.
Kareem Yusuf · full profile →
Senior Vice President, Ecosystem, Strategic Partners and Initiatives
Kareem Yusuf leads IBM's work to expand its global ecosystem, elevate partnerships and scale new business opportunities and strategic alliances. He has been at IBM for over 25 years and most recently served as senior vice president of product management and growth for IBM Software, responsible for product management and design across the software business including its AI portfolio. He previously held senior roles as general manager of Sustainability Software and general manager of IoT, with experience spanning software development, SaaS operations, mergers and acquisitions and field technical sales.
Jay M. Gambetta · full profile →
Director of IBM Research
Dr. Jay M. Gambetta is director of IBM Research and an IBM Fellow, responsible for one of the world's largest corporate research labs and for the strategy behind the future of computing across artificial intelligence, semiconductors and quantum computing. He previously served as vice president of IBM Quantum and was named an IBM Fellow in 2018 for advancing superconducting quantum computing. A physicist by training, he led the first cloud-based quantum computing platform and spearheaded Qiskit, the open source quantum software development kit, growing an ecosystem of more than 600,000 registered users. He has published more than 130 scientific papers.