See Also: IBM’s Revamped Future Strategy Has No Place for $1B Watson Health Division Why Jim Whitehurst Stepping Down is Significant The big question now is who is going to make sure the IBM-Red Hat integration does not go off track? IBM really needs to make sure that the integration remains a top priority,” said the partner company CEO, who chose to remain unidentified, to CRN. So the announcement comes as a surprise to several industry professionals, one of whom is a CEO of a top IBM partner. Whitehurst was widely touted as the inheritor to the vast IBM establishment going back just over 110 years. In the IBM press release, Krishna said Whitehurst is stepping down from his role, fourteen months after he joined the company, and will serve as a ‘senior advisor’ to IBM. Whitehurst was a tall personality at the Armonk, NY-headquartered company, so it seems the weekend announcement was a deliberate move to allay market speculation and industry recoil from the news. Right at the onset of the 4th of July weekend, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced a slew of leadership changes including that of Jim Whitehurst, the company’s (former) president. ![]() Are Whitehurst and SVP for global sales Bridget van Kralingen the victims of IBM’s way of business? The former Red Hat CEO will continue as a senior advisor to IBM. Nearly three years after Red Hat’s acquisition by IBM, and less than two years after his appointment as the IBM president, Jim Whitehurst has decided to call it a day.
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