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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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Cathleen Black
Business
26-Apr-1944   New York City Schools Chancellor, 2010-11
William R. Brody
Educator
4-Jan-1944   President, Salk Institute
Kenneth Chenault
Business
2-Jun-1951   CEO of American Express
Michael L. Eskew
Business
28-Jun-1949   CEO of United Parcel Service, 2002-07
Shirley A. Jackson
Physicist
5-Aug-1946   NRC Chairman, 1995-99
Lucio A. Noto
Business
1938   CEO of Mobil, 1994-99
James W. Owens
Business
c. 1946   CEO of Caterpillar, 2004-10
Sam Palmisano
Business
29-Jul-1951   CEO of IBM
Joan Spero
Diplomat
c. 1944   Under Secretary of State, 1993-97
Sidney Taurel
Business
9-Feb-1949   CEO of Eli Lilly, 1998-2008
Lorenzo H. Zambrano
Business
1945   CEO of Cemex

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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
Author
8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation
Martin Hellman
Inventor
2-Oct-1945   Public key cryptographer
James C. Humes
Government
31-Oct-1934   Speechwriter to five Presidents
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
Jason Scott
Historian
13-Sep-1970   GET LAMP, Sockington Cat
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
Kenneth G. Wilson
Physicist
8-Jun-1936   Second-order phase transitions
Konrad Zuse
Engineer
22-Jun-1910 18-Dec-1995 Built first Turing-complete computer

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alan Alda
Actor
28-Jan-1936   Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H
Muhammad Ali
Boxing
17-Jan-1942   Floated like butterfly, stung like bee
Francis Ford Coppola
Film Director
7-Apr-1939   The Godfather
Christopher Guest
Actor
5-Feb-1948   This Is Spinal Tap
Denis Leary
Comic
18-Aug-1957   Loud, smoking comic
Beth Littleford
Comic
17-Jul-1968   Daily Show correspondent
Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist
7-Oct-1955   Cellist, The Silk Road Ensemble
Paul Reiser
Actor
30-Mar-1957   Mad About You
Tracey Walter
Actor
25-Nov-1942   Miller in Repo Man


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