IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

What's the difference between the President and CEO roles?

It’ll be interesting to see where the new CEO takes IBM and what his strategy is to make IBM relevant again. The last decade has been stagnant (if you’re being nice) and abysmal (if you’re being honest) for IBM, missing out on all the forecasted tech growth categories. Cloud services, they’re never even in the discussion. Mobile - forget it. AI...maybe. They need to find a niche they can excel in, 1 least, in order to create the buzz needed to make them a relevant company again.

I can't speak for IBM specifically but typically the CEO is the face of the company to the public and makes macro decisions while the president is the face of the company to the employees and makes more micro decisions.

From the CNBC article covering this: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-steps-...

>In a release, Rometty described Krishna as a “brilliant technologist who has played a significant role in developing our key technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing and blockchain”

Sounds like IBM's strategy is going all in on buzzwords.

Good to see an engineer taking helm of the company from the previous CEOs which were from sales.

Maybe we'll have a renaissance like what Satya did to Microsoft...