Background

Career

• Joined International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, Baltimore, 1973, various sales, marketing and produced development positions, 1973—1989, executive assistant to Chief Executive Officer John F. Akers, 1989. Senior managing director operations International Business Machines Corporation Japan, 1991. President, Chief Executive Officer Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation subsidiary, 1993—1996.
  
  Senior vice president, group executive International Business Machines Corporation Personal Systems Group, 1997, International Business Machines Corporation Global Services, 1998, International Business Machines Corporation Enterprise Systems Group, 1999. President, chief operating officer International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, White Plains, New York, 2000—2002, president, Chief Executive Officer, 2002—2003, chairman, president, Chief Executive Officer, since 2003. Board directors International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, since 2000, ExxonMobil Corporation, since 2006.

Personality

Connections

• Married Gaier Notman; 4 children.
• spouse: Gaier Notman