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Ginni Rometty is the senior vice president, IBM Global Business Services. Global Business Services encompasses consulting and systems integration and application services. She also has responsibility for the strategy development for Global Services, including services assets initiatives and acquisitions.
Ms. Rometty was previously Managing Partner, Business Consulting Services, leading the formation of the industry's largest team of business consultants and services experts specializing in helping clients leverage information technology to optimize business performance. Prior to this, she was general manager of IBM Global Services, Americas, where she led a team of more than 75,000 professionals, and was responsible for strategic leadership, operations and client relationships. Ms. Rometty has also served as the general manager of strategy, marketing and sales operations for IBM Global Services worldwide.
Before joining IBM's services business, Ms. Rometty was general manager of IBM's Global Insurance and Financial Services Sector, where she led IBM's business strategy for the worldwide insurance marketplace, with responsibility for marketing, sales and consulting. She also supervised the operations of IBM's Insurance Research Centers in Hawthorne, N.Y., Zurich, Switzerland and Yamaha, Japan, and was in charge of IBM's insurance solutions development worldwide.
Ms. Rometty reports to the IBM Chairman, and serves on his global Performance Team and IBM's Integration and Values Team. She is also a member of IBM's strategy and operations teams. She is a leader in IBM's diversity initiatives, including the Women in Technology Council and the Women's Leadership Council and is one of the senior vice president sponsors of the Women's Executive Council at IBM. She is a frequent speaker at industry and business conferences around the world, the recipient of the Carl Sloane Award 2006, given by the Association of Management Consulting Firms, and was named among Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2005, 2006 and 2007, and Time magazine's 2002 Global Business Influential.
Ms. Rometty serves on the Board of Directors of American International Group, Inc. and APQC, a not-for-profit business research organization serving global companies for 30 years.
Before joining IBM, Ms. Rometty was with General Motors Corporation, where she was responsible for application and systems development. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree with high honors in computer science and electrical engineering from Northwestern University. | 