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Ginni Rometty: IBM’s CEO

Ginni Rometty was IMB’s first female CEO. She stepped down in April 2020, after working for IBM for more than 36 years. Rometty was at the forefront of IBM’s company conversion from tech to data.

She was also in charge of the acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion ($190/share). It was one of the largest acquisitions in IBM’s history, announced as a way to “accelerate innovation by offering a next-generation hybrid multicloud platform”.