List of IBM CEOs

The following is a chronological list of people who have served as chief executive officer of IBM, an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York.


 * Thomas J. Watson (1914–1956)
 * Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1956–1971)
 * T. Vincent Learson (1971–1973)
 * Frank T. Cary (1973–1981)
 * John R. Opel (1981–1985)
 * John Fellows Akers (1985–1993)
 * Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (1993–2002)
 * Samuel J. Palmisano (2002–2012)
 * Virginia Marie Rometty (2012–2020)
 * Arvind Krishna (2020–)