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IBM
COMPANY
IBM controls the market for mainframe computers, relied on for decades by most banks, governments, and large businesses.
Founded 1891 as the Tabulating Machines Company by Herman Hollerith. Renamed Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) in 1911, after merging with Bundy Manufacturing Company, Computing Scale Corporation, and International Time Recording Company. Renamed International Business Machines by Thomas J. Watson in 1924, as he took over as CEO.
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 |
| Ralph W. Clark |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Former VP at IBM |
| 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 |
| Mark Dean |
Engineer |
2-Mar-1957 |
|
Computer architecture |
| Nicholas M. Donofrio |
Business |
7-Sep-1945 |
|
EVP at IBM |
| Robert Dutkowsky |
Business |
2-Jan-1955 |
|
CEO of Tech Data |
| William A. Etherington |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Senior VP at IBM, 1998-2001 |
| Ursula O. Fairbairn |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Former EVP, American Express |
| Richard A. Fennessy |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
CEO of Insight Enterprises |
| 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 |
| Jesse J. Greene, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Chief Financial Risk Officer at IBM, 2007-10 |
| 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 |
| Herman Hollerith |
Inventor |
29-Feb-1860 |
17-Nov-1929 |
Invented the punchcard |
| 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 |
| Polykarp Kusch |
Physicist |
26-Jan-1911 |
20-Mar-1993 |
Magnetic moment of the electron |
| 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 |
| Mark Loughridge |
Business |
1953 |
|
CFO of IBM |
| 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 |
| Vincent Obsitnik |
Business |
1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Slovakia |
| M. Kenneth Oshman |
Business |
9-Jul-1940 |
6-Aug-2011 |
CEO of Echelon, 1988-2009 |
| 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 |
|
CEO of 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 |
|
Ex-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 |
Led IBM into the computer era |
| Thomas J. Watson, Jr. |
Business |
14-Jan-1914 |
31-Dec-1993 |
CEO of IBM, 1956-71 |
| Jerry York |
Business |
22-Jun-1938 |
16-Mar-2010 |
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 |
| Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
|
Electron tunneling |
| 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 |
| Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller |
Business |
13-Jul-1913 |
16-Apr-2012 |
Shipbuilding tycoon, philanthropist |
| 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 |
22-Jun-1938 |
16-Mar-2010 |
CFO of IBM, 1993-95 |
NOTABLE EMPLOYEES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Howard Aiken |
Physicist |
8-Mar-1900 |
14-Mar-1973 |
Designer of early computers |
| John Backus |
Computer Programmer |
3-Dec-1924 |
17-Mar-2007 |
Inventor of BNF, led FORTRAN team |
| J. Georg Bednorz |
Physicist |
16-May-1950 |
|
High-temperature superconductivity |
| Gerd Binnig |
Physicist |
20-Jul-1947 |
|
Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope |
| Fred Brooks |
Computer Programmer |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
Father of the IBM System 360 |
| Wallace J. Eckert |
Astronomer |
19-Jun-1902 |
24-Aug-1971 |
First scientist hired by IBM |
| Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
|
Electron tunneling |
| Erich Gamma |
Computer Programmer |
1961 |
|
Design Patterns |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
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 |
|---|
| Todd Akin |
Politician |
5-Jul-1947 |
|
Congressman, Missouri 2nd |
| Gene Amdahl |
Engineer |
16-Nov-1922 |
|
Parallel computing pioneer |
| Arthur Glenn Andrews |
Politician |
15-Jan-1909 |
25-Sep-2008 |
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 |
| Gerd Binnig |
Physicist |
20-Jul-1947 |
|
Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope |
| 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 |
| John Maxwell Coetzee |
Novelist |
9-Feb-1940 |
|
Reclusive South African novelist, essayist |
| Timothy D. Cook |
Business |
1-Nov-1960 |
|
CEO 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 |
| Dixon R. Doll |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Doll Capital Management |
| Susan S. Elliott |
Business |
1937 |
|
Systems Service Enterprises |
| Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
|
Electron tunneling |
| 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, 1994-2010 |
| 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 |
| Tony Ibargüen |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
President of Tech Data, 1996-99 |
| Ajit Jain |
Business |
1951 |
|
Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group |
| Jeffrey A. Joerres |
Business |
1960 |
|
CEO of Manpower |
| Peter R. Johnson |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Credit Management Services |
| Frank J. Fanzilli Jr. |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Former CIO, Credit Suisse First Boston |
| David T. Kearns |
Business |
11-Aug-1930 |
25-Feb-2011 |
CEO of Xerox, 1985-91 |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| 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 |
| Daniel Lewin |
Mathematician |
14-May-1970 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Co-founder of Akamai, died in 9/11 |
| Jim Lightfoot |
Politician |
27-Sep-1938 |
|
Congressman from Iowa, 1985-97 |
| James R. Long |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Former Nortel executive |
| 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 |
| Mack Mattingly |
Politician |
7-Jan-1931 |
|
US Senator from Georgia, 1981-87 |
| 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 |
|
High-temperature superconductivity |
| John Naisbitt |
Author |
15-Jan-1929 |
|
Megatrends |
| 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 |
| Manuel Perez de la Mesa |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of Pool Corporation |
| H. Ross Perot |
Business |
27-Jun-1930 |
|
Eccentric presidential candidate |
| Clifford A. Pickover |
Mathematician |
15-Aug-1957 |
|
Mathematician and prolific author |
| Richard Pini |
Cartoonist |
19-Jul-1950 |
|
Elfquest |
| 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 |
| Aviel Rubin |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1967 |
|
Computer security expert at Johns Hopkins |
| Mark Russinovich |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1966 |
|
Microsoft Windows Internals |
| Patricia F. Russo |
Business |
1953 |
|
CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, 2006-08 |
| 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 |
16-Mar-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 |
13-Oct-1933 |
7-Aug-2011 |
Billionaire, Michael's Stores |
| Sam Wyly |
Business |
1934 |
|
Early computer entrepreneur |
| Duane E. Zitzner |
Business |
26-Jun-1947 |
|
Former EVP, Hewlett Packard |
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