--- title: "IBM: AI company profile, people and coverage" description: "International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm type: Organization wikidata: Q37156 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM website: https://www.ibm.com/ source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0) --- # IBM > International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm ## Facts - Category: Chips and hardware - Country: United States - Founded: 1911-06-16 - Headquarters: Armonk - Status: public - Website: https://www.ibm.com/ - Employees: 352,600 (as of 2019-01-01) - Also known as: 18M, IBM Corp., ibm.com, International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) - Industries: software industry, computer industry, IT service management, information technology consulting, computer hardware industry ## Accounts - x: https://x.com/IBM - linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm - github: https://github.com/ibm - youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8cc4pVKVHG7A9fbNsRNrLQ - facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IBM - instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ibm ## Key people - Thomas John Watson, Sr., founder (USA IBM executive and art collector (1874-1956)) - Charles Ranlett Flint, founder (American businessman (1850-1934)) - Arvind Krishna, chief executive (Indian American business executive and CEO of IBM), since 2020-04-01 - Ginni Rometty, chair (American business executive), since 2014-04-01 - Michelle J. Howard, board member (United States Navy vice admiral), since 2019-01-01 - Andrew Liveris, board member (Australian-born businessperson and corporate director, retired Chair and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company), since 2010-01-01 - Alex Gorsky, board member (American businessman and corporate director; former chair and CEO of Johnson & Johnson), since 2014-01-01 - Peter Voser, board member (Swiss chief executive), since 2015-01-01 - Joe Swedish, board member (American businessperson and corporate director, retired Chair, President and CEO, Anthem, Inc.), since 2017-01-01 - Rick Waddell, board member (Businessperson and corporate director, retired CEO of Northern Trust Corporation), since 2017-01-01 - Thomas Buberl, board member (CEO of AXA), since 2020-04-28 - David Farr, board member (American businessperson and corporate director, retired Chair and CEO, Emerson Electric Co.), since 2012-01-01 - Martha Pollack, board member (American computer scientist and corporate director), since 2019-01-01 - Arvind Krishna, board member (Indian American business executive and CEO of IBM), since 2021-01-01 - F. William McNabb III, board member (American businessperson, former chairman and chief executive officer of Vanguard), since 2019-01-01 - Al Zollar, board member (Businessperson and corporate director, Executive Advisor, Siris Capital Group LLC), since 2021-10-25 - J. M. Coetzee (South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)) - Benoit Mandelbrot (Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)) - Tim Cook (American business executive, former Apple executive chairman) - Gerd Binnig (German physicist (born 1947)) - Heinrich Rohrer (Swiss physicist (1933-2013)) - Georg Bednorz (physicist) - Vint Cerf (American computer scientist (born 1943)) - John Backus (American computer scientist (1924–2007)) - Julie Payette (29th governor general of Canada, former CSA Astronaut (born 1963)) - Ratan Tata (Indian industrialist (1937–2024)) - Edgar F. Codd (English computer scientist (1923–2003)) - Frances Allen (American computer scientist (1932–2020)) ## Revenue - undated: USD 79.9 billion (SEC filing) - undated: USD 79.1 billion (SEC filing) - undated: USD 79.6 billion (SEC filing) - undated: USD 57.7 billion (SEC filing) - undated: USD 55.2 billion (SEC filing) - undated: USD 57.4 billion (SEC filing) - undated: USD 60.5 billion (SEC filing) - undated: USD 61.9 billion (SEC filing) - undated: USD 62.8 billion (SEC filing) - undated: USD 67.5 billion (SEC filing) - 2007-01-01: USD 98.8 billion (Wikidata) - 2008-01-01: USD 103.6 billion (Wikidata) - 2009-01-01: USD 95.8 billion (Wikidata) - 2010-01-01: USD 99.9 billion (Wikidata) - 2011-01-01: USD 106.9 billion (Wikidata) - 2012-01-01: USD 102.9 billion (Wikidata) - 2013-01-01: USD 98.4 billion (Wikidata) - 2014-01-01: USD 92.8 billion (Wikidata) - 2015-01-01: USD 81.7 billion (Wikidata) - 2016-01-01: USD 79.9 billion (Wikidata) - 2017-01-01: USD 79.1 billion (Wikidata) - 2018-01-01: USD 79.6 billion (Wikidata) - 2019-01-01: USD 77.1 billion (Wikidata) - 2020-01-01: USD 73.6 billion (Wikidata) - 2021-01-01: USD 57.4 billion (Wikidata) - 2022-01-01: USD 60.5 billion (Wikidata) - 2023-01-01: USD 61.9 billion (Wikidata) - 2024-01-01: USD 62.8 billion (Wikidata) ## Ownership Subsidiaries: [Red Hat](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-red-hat.md), [Internet Security Systems](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-internet-security-systems.md), [Lotus Software](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-lotus-software.md), [Rational Software](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-rational-software.md), [IBM Canada](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-canada.md), [IBM Research](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-research.md), [IBM India Private Limited](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-india-private-limited.md), [IBM Israel](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-israel.md), [SoftLayer](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-softlayer.md), [IBM Norge](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-norge.md), [Object Technology International](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-object-technology-international.md), [IBM Denmark](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-denmark.md), IBM Bluemix, [The Weather Company](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-the-weather-company.md), [IBM France](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-france.md), [Companhia IBM Portuguesa](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-companhia-ibm-portuguesa.md), [IBM Nederland](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-nederland.md), [IBM Germany](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-germany.md), [IBM Egypt Business Support Services](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-egypt-business-support-services.md), [IBM Česká republika](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm-ceska-republika.md) ## Coverage on the Monitor Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on IBM, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm#connections ## Sources - Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37156, read 2026-11-11 - Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM - Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000051143 Part of [AI Companies](https://monitor.paciva.ai/companies.md), the Monitor's directory of every AI company on file.