IBM - International Business Machines Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation

One New Orchard Road
Armonk, NY 10504
United States
914 499 1900
http://www.ibm.com

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Information Technology Services
Full-time employees: 352,600

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Ms. Virginia M. Rometty	Exec. Chairman	7.47M	N/A	1959
Mr. James J. Kavanaugh	Sr. VP and CFO of Fin. & Operations	1.98M	N/A	1967
Ms. Michelle H. Browdy	Sr. VP of Legal & Regulatory Affairs and Gen. Counsel	1.83M	N/A	1965
Dr. John E. Kelly III	Exec. VP	1.76M	N/A	1954
Mr. Arvind Krishna	CEO & Director	N/A	N/A	1963

Amounts are as of 31 December 2019, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

International Business Machines Corporation operates as an integrated solutions and services company worldwide. Its Cloud & Cognitive Software segment offers software for vertical and domain-specific solutions in health, financial services, and Internet of Things (IoT), weather, and security software and services application areas; and customer information control system and storage, and analytics and integration software solutions to support client mission critical on-premise workloads in banking, airline, and retail industries. It also offers middleware and data platform software, including Red Hat, which enables the operation of clients' hybrid multi-cloud environments; and Cloud Paks, WebSphere distributed, and analytics platform software, such as DB2 distributed, information integration, and enterprise content management, as well as IoT, Blockchain and AI/Watson platforms. The company's Global Business Services segment offers business consulting services; system integration, application management, maintenance, and support services for packaged software; finance, procurement, talent and engagement, and industry-specific business process outsourcing services; and IT infrastructure and platform services. Its Global Technology Services segment provides project, managed, outsourcing, and cloud-delivered services for enterprise IT infrastructure environments; and IT infrastructure support services. The company's Systems segment offers servers for businesses, cloud service providers, and scientific computing organizations; data storage products and solutions; and z/OS, an enterprise operating system, as well as Linux. Its Global Financing segment provides lease, installment payment, loan financing, short-term working capital financing, and remanufacturing and remarketing services. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. and changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation in 1924. The company was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, New York.

Corporate governance

International Business Machines Corporation’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 7 December 2019 is 5. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 6; Shareholder rights: 3; Compensation: 8.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.