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IBM
COMPANY
Founded 1891 as the Tabulating Machines Company by Herman Hollerith. It officially became IBM after mergers in 1924.
Official Website:
http://www.ibm.com/ Industry:
Computer
Ticker:
NYSE:IBM
Corporate headquarters:
Armonk, NY
Sales:
$98.8B (2007)
Employees:
385,000
EXECUTIVES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Rodney C. Adkins |
Business |
23-Aug-1958 |
|
Senior VP at IBM |
| John F. Akers |
Business |
28-Dec-1934 |
|
CEO of IBM, 1986-93 |
| C. Michael Armstrong |
Business |
18-Oct-1938 |
|
CEO of Comcast, 2002-04 |
| Colleen F. Arnold |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
IBM executive |
| Erich Bloch |
Business |
9-Jan-1925 |
|
Director of NSF, 1984-90 |
| J. Thomas Bouchard |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
VP for HR at IBM, 1994-2000 |
| Robert M. Calderoni |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
CEO of Ariba, Inc. |
| Michael R. Cannon |
Business |
1953 |
|
Dell President of Global Operations |
| David R. Carlucci |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of IMS Health |
| Bruce L. Claflin |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of 3Com, 2001-06 |
| George Conrades |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Akamai, 1999-2005 |
| Curtis J. Crawford |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of XCEO |
| Gerald M. Czarnecki |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Deltennium Group |
| Louis J. D'Ambrosio |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
CEO of Avaya |
| Kenneth W. Dam |
Government |
10-Aug-1932 |
|
Deputy Treasury Secretary, 2001-03 |
| Richard L. Daugherty |
Business |
18-Oct-1935 |
|
Former IBM executive |
| Nicholas M. Donofrio |
Business |
7-Sep-1945 |
|
EVP at IBM |
| Robert Dutkowsky |
Business |
2-Jan-1955 |
|
CEO of Tech Data |
| Ursula O. Fairbairn |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
American Express EVP |
| Gale S. Fitzgerald |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Partner, TranSpend, Inc. |
| James J. Forese |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
CEO of Ikon, 1998-2002 |
| Louis V. Gerstner |
Business |
1-Mar-1942 |
|
CEO of IBM, 1993-2002 |
| Ralph E. Gomory |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Mark N. Greene |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of Fair Isaac |
| Charles A. Haggerty |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Western Digital, 1993-2000 |
| Michael R. Hallman |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
President and COO of Microsoft, 1990-92 |
| Ellen M. Hancock |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Exodus Communications, 1998-2001 |
| Richard J. Hernandez |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
McKesson Corporate Solutions |
| Ronald W. Hovsepian |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
CEO of Novell |
| Arthur E. Johnson |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Senior VP at Lockheed-Martin |
| Jonathan J. Judge |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Paychex |
| Jill Kanin-Lovers |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Senior VP at Avon, 1998-2004 |
| Abby F. Kohnstamm |
Business |
1953 |
|
Senior VP at IBM, 1993-2005 |
| Ned C. Lautenbach |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice |
| J. Michael Lawrie |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Siebel Systems, 2004-05 |
| David E. Liddle |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Metaphor Computer Systems |
| Douglas L. Maine |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CFO of IBM, 1998-2000 |
| Irvin W. Maloney |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Dataproducts Corporation |
| Marvin L. Mann |
Business |
c. 1932 |
|
CEO of Lexmark, 1991-98 |
| James F. Mooney |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Former CFO Americas, IBM |
| M. Kenneth Oshman |
Business |
9-Jul-1940 |
|
CEO of Echelon |
| Sam Palmisano |
Business |
29-Jul-1951 |
|
CEO of IBM |
| Jane C. Pfeiffer |
Business |
c. 1932 |
|
Chairman of NBC, 1978-81 |
| Gerald D. Prothro |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Former IBM executive |
| Lawrence R. Ricciardi |
Business |
14-Aug-1940 |
|
General Counsel for IBM, 1995-2002 |
| Robert Ripp |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of AMP, 1998-99 |
| Virginia M. Rometty |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Senior VP at IBM |
| Linda S. Sanford |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Senior VP Enterprise at IBM |
| Ihno Schneevoigt |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Former Allianz and IBM executive |
| Lorene K. Steffes |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Transarc Corporation, 1997-99 |
| David M. Thomas |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of IMS Health, 2000-05 |
| John W. Thompson |
Business |
24-Apr-1949 |
|
CEO of Symantec |
| Richard F. Wallman |
Business |
1951 |
|
CFO of Honeywell, 1999-2003 |
| H. Mitchell Watson, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
President of Sigma Group, 1992-2005 |
| Arthur K. Watson |
Business |
23-Apr-1919 |
26-Jul-1974 |
Past President of IBM World Corp. |
| Thomas J. Watson |
Business |
17-Feb-1874 |
19-Jun-1956 |
Founder of IBM |
| Thomas J. Watson, Jr. |
Business |
14-Jan-1914 |
31-Dec-1993 |
CEO of IBM, 1956-71 |
| Jerry York |
Business |
1938 |
|
CFO of IBM, 1993-95 |
| Lawrence A. Zimmerman |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CFO of Xerox |
| Alfred W. Zollar |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
IBM executive, Tivoli Software |
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John F. Akers |
Business |
28-Dec-1934 |
|
CEO of IBM, 1986-93 |
| Jürgen Dormann |
Business |
12-Jan-1940 |
|
Chairman of ABB |
| Carlos Ghosn |
Business |
9-Mar-1954 |
|
CEO of Nissan and Renault |
| Carla Hills |
Diplomat |
3-Jan-1934 |
|
US Trade Representative, 1989-93 |
| Amo Houghton |
Politician |
7-Aug-1926 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1987-2005 |
| John N. Irwin II |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1913 |
28-Feb-2000 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1970-73 |
| Nan Keohane |
Scholar |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Political scientist |
| Charles F. Knight |
Business |
1936 |
|
CEO of Emerson Electric, 1973-2000 |
| Minoru Makihara |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
President of Mitsubishi, 1992-98 |
| Thomas S. Murphy |
Business |
31-May-1925 |
|
CEO of Capital Cities/ABC, 1966-90 |
| William W. Scranton |
Politician |
19-Jul-1917 |
|
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1963-67 |
| Charles Vest |
Educator |
9-Sep-1941 |
|
President of MIT, 1990-2004 |
| Arthur K. Watson |
Business |
23-Apr-1919 |
26-Jul-1974 |
Past President of IBM World Corp. |
| Thomas J. Watson, Jr. |
Business |
14-Jan-1914 |
31-Dec-1993 |
CEO of IBM, 1956-71 |
| Jerry York |
Business |
1938 |
|
CFO of IBM, 1993-95 |
NOTABLE EMPLOYEES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Backus |
Computer Programmer |
3-Dec-1924 |
17-Mar-2007 |
Inventor of BNF, led FORTRAN team |
| J. Georg Bednorz |
Physicist |
16-May-1950 |
|
Superconductivity researcher |
| Gerd Binnig |
Physicist |
20-Jul-1947 |
|
Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope |
| Fred Brooks |
Author |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
The Mythical Man-Month |
| Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
|
Electron tunneling |
| Erich Gamma |
Computer Programmer |
1961 |
|
Design Patterns |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
|
Fractal mathematician |
| Heinrich Rohrer |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1933 |
|
Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope |
| Alan Shugart |
Inventor |
27-Sep-1930 |
12-Dec-2006 |
SCSI interface |
| John Vlissides |
Computer Programmer |
2-Aug-1961 |
24-Nov-2005 |
Author number 4 of the Gang of Four |
| Jerry M. Woodall |
Inventor |
c. 1938 |
|
Inventor of the red LED |
EMPLOYMENT
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Gene Amdahl |
Engineer |
16-Nov-1922 |
|
Parallel computing pioneer |
| Arthur Glenn Andrews |
Politician |
15-Jan-1909 |
|
Congressman from Alabama, 1965-67 |
| Paul Arizin |
Basketball |
9-Mar-1928 |
12-Dec-2006 |
Philadelphia Warriors |
| Roscoe Bartlett |
Politician |
3-Jun-1926 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 6th |
| Peter D. Behrendt |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Exabyte, 1990-97 |
| Grady Booch |
Computer Programmer |
27-Feb-1955 |
|
Unified Modeling Language |
| Ken Bouldin |
Business |
? |
|
EVP, Corrections Corporation of America |
| Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| John T. Chambers |
Business |
23-Aug-1949 |
|
CEO of Cisco |
| Frank Clegg |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
President of Microsoft Canada, 2000-05 |
| Timothy D. Cook |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
COO of Apple |
| Paul J. Curlander |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Lexmark |
| Gary J. Daichendt |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
EVP at Cisco, 1998-2000 |
| Michael Deaver |
Government |
11-Apr-1938 |
18-Aug-2007 |
Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff |
| Susan S. Elliott |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Systems Service Enterprises |
| Jeff Foxworthy |
Comic |
6-Sep-1958 |
|
Just might be a redneck |
| C. Daniel Gelatt |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of NMT Corporation |
| Rob Glaser |
Business |
16-Jan-1962 |
|
CEO of RealNetworks |
| Fred C. Goad, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Voyent Partners LLC |
| William H. Goodwin, Jr. |
Business |
21-Oct-1940 |
|
President of CCA Industries |
| Amiram Grinvald |
Scientist |
c. 1949 |
|
High-resolution optical imaging |
| Ira D. Hall |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Utendahl Capital Management |
| Katherine Harris |
Politician |
5-Apr-1957 |
|
Congresswoman from Florida, 2003-07 |
| Milledge A. Hart III |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
President of EDS, 1970-77 |
| Robert H. Hayes |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Professor at HBS, 1966-2000 |
| H. Robert Horvitz |
Scientist |
8-May-1947 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| Ajit Jain |
Business |
1951 |
|
Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group |
| Jeffrey A. Joerres |
Business |
1960 |
|
CEO of Manpower |
| Frank J. Fanzilli Jr. |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Former CIO, Credit Suisse First Boston |
| David T. Kearns |
Business |
11-Aug-1930 |
|
CEO of Xerox, 1985-91 |
| Dennis J. Kuester |
Business |
1942 |
|
CEO of Marshall & Ilsley |
| Len J. Lauer |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
EVP at Qualcomm |
| Rasmus Lerdorf |
Computer Programmer |
22-Nov-1968 |
|
Creator of PHP programming language |
| Jim Lightfoot |
Politician |
27-Sep-1938 |
|
Congressman from Iowa, 1985-97 |
| James L. Mann |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of SunGard, 1986-2002 |
| Kenneth P. Manning |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Sensient Technologies |
| Thomas J. Manton |
Politician |
3-Nov-1932 |
22-Jul-2006 |
Congressman from New York, 1985-99 |
| Michael J. Maples |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Co-President of Microsoft, 1992-95 |
| Harry M. Markowitz |
Economist |
24-Aug-1927 |
|
Portfolio theory |
| Ruth Ann Marshall |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
President, Mastercard Americas, 1999-2006 |
| James F. McDonald |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Scientific-Atlanta, 1993-2006 |
| Richard Michaelson |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CFO of Life Sciences Research |
| Eben Moglen |
Attorney |
c. 1959 |
|
Shareware law |
| K. Alex Müller |
Physicist |
20-Apr-1927 |
|
Superconductivity researcher |
| Craig Newmark |
Computer Programmer |
2-Dec-1952 |
|
Founder, Craigslist |
| William R. Nuti |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
CEO of NCR |
| Tom Paquin |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
Netscape Fellow |
| Thomas E. Pardun |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Edge2net Inc., 2001-01 |
| H. Ross Perot |
Business |
27-Jun-1930 |
|
Eccentric presidential candidate |
| Myrtle Potter |
Business |
1958 |
|
COO of Genentech, 2000-04 |
| Steven S. Reinemund |
Business |
6-Apr-1948 |
|
CEO of Pepsi, 2001-06 |
| Hans Reiser |
Computer Programmer |
19-Dec-1963 |
|
ReiserFS |
| Mel Reynolds |
Politician |
8-Jan-1952 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1993-95 |
| Mark Russinovich |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1966 |
|
Microsoft Windows Internals |
| Patricia F. Russo |
Business |
1953 |
|
CEO of Alcatel-Lucent |
| Willy C. Shih |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
VP at Kodak, 1997-2005 |
| Samuel K. Skinner |
Government |
10-Jun-1938 |
|
Bush 41's Chief of Staff |
| Steven L. Spinner |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
CEO of Performance Food Group |
| Richard Stallman |
Computer Programmer |
16-Mar-1953 |
|
Founder, GNU software project |
| Paul G. Stern |
Business |
31-Oct-1938 |
|
CEO of Northern Telecom, 1989-93 |
| Ivan Sutherland |
Engineer |
16-May-1938 |
|
Father of computer graphics |
| George W. Tamke |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice |
| Andrew Tanenbaum |
Computer Programmer |
1944 |
|
Creator of Minix |
| Myron E. Ullman |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of JC Penney |
| William S. Urkiel |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CFO of Ikon, 1999-2005 |
| Wietse Venema |
Computer Programmer |
1951 |
|
SATAN, tcpwrappers, postfix |
| Daniel J. Warmenhoven |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Network Appliance |
| John Warnock |
Computer Programmer |
6-Oct-1940 |
|
Co-Founder of Adobe |
| Peter C. Wendell |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Venture capitalist, Sierra Ventures |
| Charles Wyly |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
Billionaire, Michael's Stores |
| Duane E. Zitzner |
Business |
26-Jun-1947 |
|
Former EVP, Hewlett Packard |
EXTRANEOUS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Tim Bray |
Computer Programmer |
21-Jun-1955 |
|
Co-Inventor of XML |
| W. Edwards Deming |
Mathematician |
14-Oct-1900 |
20-Dec-1993 |
Quality Control guru |
| John Diebold |
Inventor |
8-Jun-1926 |
26-Dec-2005 |
Automation evangelist |
| Martin Hellman |
Scientist |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
| Charles Y. S. Liu |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
On Capital China Technology Fund |
| Thomas E. Mann |
Government |
10-Sep-1944 |
|
Brookings Institution |
| Tony Robbins |
Author |
29-Feb-1960 |
|
Toothy motivational speaker |
| William F. Sharpe |
Economist |
16-Jun-1934 |
|
Capital asset pricing model |
| Mark Skousen |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Forecasts & Strategies |
| Paul E. Vallely |
Military |
c. 1939 |
|
Fox News senior military analyst |
| Konrad Zuse |
Engineer |
22-Jun-1910 |
18-Dec-1995 |
Built first Turing-complete computer |
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